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Nov 1, 2022 18:52:06 GMT
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Post by rodge on Nov 1, 2022 18:52:06 GMT
There was a power cut at the office this afternoon.
All of the businesses were affected by it, including the petrol station which was closed.
I looked at my dial and saw I’ve about 80 miles left before I need diesel, so not a problem.
As I drove on, I wondered what it will be like in the next few years as many car owners get EVs, and charge them at home. If there’s a power cut, they’ve no source of charge, and when they get home, what happens if there’s no power and the supply suddenly comes on during the night.
Do the cars start charging automatically, or do they have to be reconnected?
If they don’t have to be reconnected, what will all those cars charging at the same time do to the power grid?
Will there be a sudden demand putting the grid at risk again?
I’m sure it’s been thought through but would be interested to find out.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2022 19:36:24 GMT
I very much doubt this has been thought out, it would upset the apple cart. Pun Intended.
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Nov 1, 2022 20:16:04 GMT
Post by ChrisM on Nov 1, 2022 20:16:04 GMT
I knew about Gary Powers but didn't realise until earlier this week that he was exchanged at the Bridge of Spies. Now I've walked past the exact spot where it happened.....not quite a life-changing moment, but something I won't forget. On the Berlin side, the areas where the guard huts were are now turning areas for the tour buses Have just finished watching BoS on YouTube. Apparently it's a very good "simulation" of the feeling in the USA at the time in particular. Hadn't realised that Gary Powers died very young (just a few days short of his 48th birthday) in a helicopter crash. He's buried at Arlington, so I've been within a mile-or-so of his grave (it's on the far side of the cemetery from the main entrance and I didn't walk that far as I arrived mid-afternoon and didn't have time to walk round the entire grounds) |
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Nov 2, 2022 14:05:06 GMT
Post by woofwoof on Nov 2, 2022 14:05:06 GMT
There was a power cut at the office this afternoon. All of the businesses were affected by it, including the petrol station which was closed. I looked at my dial and saw I’ve about 80 miles left before I need diesel, so not a problem. As I drove on, I wondered what it will be like in the next few years as many car owners get EVs, and charge them at home. If there’s a power cut, they’ve no source of charge, and when they get home, what happens if there’s no power and the supply suddenly comes on during the night. Do the cars start charging automatically, or do they have to be reconnected? If they don’t have to be reconnected, what will all those cars charging at the same time do to the power grid? Will there be a sudden demand putting the grid at risk again? I’m sure it’s been thought through but would be interested to find out. I'm worried about EV. Suppose the grid can't supply enough juice at some point if we've all bought EV's and charging at peak demand time turned off, at lets say 17:00-19:00. When everyone's EV starts to draw charge at 19:01 will 19:01 become the next peak period to be turned off? I'm also worried about CBDC being used to punish those with unpalatable to the sate views. We've seen bank access blocked by the state in other parts of the world and as we move more towards total digital surveillance and monitoring in the UK (the latest thing I read was musings on monitoring all transactions over £100 and I've no doubt that could change to all transaction) what's to stop a future govt blocking certain purchases or blocking our access to bank accounts completely and even blocking EV charging if we're naughty and say the wrong thing on twatter or the bloke next door informs on us to gain a better social credit score? |
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Nov 2, 2022 18:47:22 GMT
Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Nov 2, 2022 18:47:22 GMT
^ smart charging will ensure the load on the grid is spread, say between 1800 and 0600. Everyone may well come home and plug in at 6pm but your car may only charge between say 0200 and 0400. Your next door neighbour’s between 0400 and 0600, and the guy across the road between 2200 and midnight.
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Nov 2, 2022 19:08:02 GMT
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Post by Alex on Nov 2, 2022 19:08:02 GMT
^ smart charging will ensure the load on the grid is spread, say between 1800 and 0600. Everyone may well come home and plug in at 6pm but your car may only charge between say 0200 and 0400. Your next door neighbour’s between 0400 and 0600, and the guy across the road between 2200 and midnight. In fact if you plug in at 6pm they might actually draw some charge out of your battery. They only need to draw 1 or 2 percent charge from all the cars plugged in to smooth out the spike in demand when everyone is switching on their kettle at the end of Coronation Street. |
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Nov 2, 2022 23:00:12 GMT
Post by woofwoof on Nov 2, 2022 23:00:12 GMT
^ smart charging will ensure the load on the grid is spread, say between 1800 and 0600. Everyone may well come home and plug in at 6pm but your car may only charge between say 0200 and 0400. Your next door neighbour’s between 0400 and 0600, and the guy across the road between 2200 and midnight. I did read somewhere about the possibility of turning smart chargers off for whatever reason but I can't remember where but I don't know if the technology to do this remotely is in the device or could be at some time. If it is ever there there's the danger that it could be used nefariously. Maybe it's just that I've ceased to trust politicians. All of them. |
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Nov 3, 2022 9:18:20 GMT
Post by johnc on Nov 3, 2022 9:18:20 GMT
Our charger is wired into a separate fuse which is then connected to the main circuit board, so there is no way to remotely switch it off. However I would be mighty pissed off if we had been restricted to 2 hours charging overnight when we were preparing for a long journey because that would only give us 35/40 miles of charge. What a nightmare world that would be!
The only real solution is to build more power stations (nuclear probably) and to max out on renewables.
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Nov 3, 2022 10:49:18 GMT
Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Nov 3, 2022 10:49:18 GMT
Our charger is wired into a separate fuse which is then connected to the main circuit board, so there is no way to remotely switch it off. However I would be mighty pissed off if we had been restricted to 2 hours charging overnight when we were preparing for a long journey because that would only give us 35/40 miles of charge. What a nightmare world that would be! The only real solution is to build more power stations (nuclear probably) and to max out on renewables. I would be surprised if, going forward to 2030 and battery technology advances, that the charging of an electric car would take in excess of 2 hours. I picked 2 hours as an example, but whether it be 2 hours or 4 hours, the demand will be smoothed across the period the vehicle is stationary and plugged in. There would need to be an override system where, if you arrive home low on charge and you're expecting to be going back out shortly, the charging would begin immediately. The issue will be those people who have to park on the street, but I think they will use public charging points where rapid charging at 350kwh and above should "fill them up" within 15 mins or so. I'm not sure we need to build loads new power stations. If you have wind farms generating power overnight but no demand, electric vehicles would seem to be the ideal storage solution. Anyway, Rolls Royce are going to build these new, small, modular nuclear reactors that can built quickly and spread around the country. The logical conclusion to this is that we'll all have a small nuclear reactor in the garage.  |
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Nov 3, 2022 12:59:47 GMT
Post by PG on Nov 3, 2022 12:59:47 GMT
...The only real solution is to build more power stations (nuclear probably) and to max out on renewables. ...I'm not sure we need to build loads new power stations. If you have wind farms generating power overnight but no demand, electric vehicles would seem to be the ideal storage solution. Anyway, Rolls Royce are going to build these new, small, modular nuclear reactors that can built quickly and spread around the country. The logical conclusion to this is that we'll all have a small nuclear reactor in the garage. DeLoreans were capable of having them fitted in 1985, so it's depressing that it has taken so long to reach us all.  |
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Nov 3, 2022 13:58:56 GMT
Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Nov 3, 2022 13:58:56 GMT
^ i did say the nuclear reactor would be in the garage, not in the car - that would be ridiculous.
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Nov 3, 2022 14:17:36 GMT
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Post by rodge on Nov 3, 2022 14:17:36 GMT
^ i did say the nuclear reactor would be in the garage, not in the car - that would be ridiculous. It’s not too far off. We worked with a place in California in my last job who were investing heavily in personalized reactors. kairospower.com/ |
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Nov 3, 2022 16:09:32 GMT
Post by johnc on Nov 3, 2022 16:09:32 GMT
^ i did say the nuclear reactor would be in the garage, not in the car - that would be ridiculous. It’s not too far off. We worked with a place in California in my last job who were investing heavily in personalized reactors. kairospower.com/Pardon the pun but Health & Safety would have a meltdown over this. You can just imagine someone trying a bit of DIY to fix it when it's 40 years old! |
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Post by Martin on Nov 3, 2022 16:36:44 GMT
It’s not too far off. We worked with a place in California in my last job who were investing heavily in personalized reactors. kairospower.com/Pardon the pun but Health & Safety would have a meltdown over this. You can just imagine someone trying a bit of DIY to fix it when it's 40 years old! The first thing that popped into my head was that Mark would have a go! |
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Nov 3, 2022 21:00:46 GMT
Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Nov 3, 2022 21:00:46 GMT
Pardon the pun but Health & Safety would have a meltdown over this. You can just imagine someone trying a bit of DIY to fix it when it's 40 years old! The first thing that popped into my head was that Mark would have a go! Exactly. There’ll be an owners’ club that’ll point you in the direction of cheap plutonium for refuelling and pattern parts. |
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Nov 3, 2022 21:07:28 GMT
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Post by LandieMark on Nov 3, 2022 21:07:28 GMT
🤣 Even I draw the line at servicing my own nuclear reactor. I failed A Level physics (E grade is a fail in my book).
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Nov 3, 2022 22:03:13 GMT
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Post by rodge on Nov 3, 2022 22:03:13 GMT
The first thing that popped into my head was that Mark would have a go! Exactly. There’ll be an owners’ club that’ll point you in the direction of cheap plutonium for refuelling and pattern parts. ”We have a special deal for Christmas, free shipping with every Geiger counter!” |
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Nov 4, 2022 12:05:53 GMT
Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2022 12:05:53 GMT
🤣 Even I draw the line at servicing my own nuclear reactor. I failed A Level physics (E grade is a fail in my book). I thought they would have you down as prime contractor for the builds. |
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Nov 4, 2022 21:19:22 GMT
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Post by rodge on Nov 4, 2022 21:19:22 GMT
Saw this the other day and am impressed at a 1.2 mile long passenger train, but everywhere is talking about the length of the train, the duration of the journey, the amount of drivers & carriages, speed. I want to know how long the platform was for a 1.2 mile long train to board and disembark those passengers! www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-63442530 |
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Nov 4, 2022 21:22:55 GMT
Post by ChrisM on Nov 4, 2022 21:22:55 GMT
I would like to know why Royal Mail paint their vans with what seems to be the shade of red that fades the most of all possible paint colours. I happened to walk past one of their depots/sorting offices recently when there must have been a strike on, since it was stuffed full of vans of varying sizes and almost without exception, their paint had faded badly irrespective of the age of the vehicle
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Nov 4, 2022 22:41:14 GMT
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Post by LandieMark on Nov 4, 2022 22:41:14 GMT
Dog cock pink. I think it's a specification.
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Nov 5, 2022 11:31:27 GMT
Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2022 11:31:27 GMT
I thought it was to designate when the van required scrapping. In the days of Comma and Minor vans it would probably have been appropriate....
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Nov 6, 2022 20:49:59 GMT
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Nov 8, 2022 1:49:36 GMT
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Nov 8, 2022 15:13:52 GMT
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Post by rodge on Nov 8, 2022 15:13:52 GMT
Been really tired the past few days despite sleeping reasonably well.
I left work early today to do my meetings remotely and am in a training session right now that’s almost 2 hours long and is on teams.
There’s about 140 people in the same training.
I’m sitting in my living room vaguely paying attention when I realise I fell asleep for about 10 minutes.
Glad I’m at home and not in the office…
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Nov 8, 2022 17:25:03 GMT
Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2022 17:25:03 GMT
Worth getting the ticker checked. Not mucking about, sooner than later please.
Vitamin B12 too.
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Nov 8, 2022 23:41:01 GMT
Post by phillipm on Nov 8, 2022 23:41:01 GMT
Pardon the pun but Health & Safety would have a meltdown over this. You can just imagine someone trying a bit of DIY to fix it when it's 40 years old! The first thing that popped into my head was that Mark would have a go! ...I'm allowed to try to make it faster though, right? |
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Nov 9, 2022 8:53:38 GMT
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Post by rodge on Nov 9, 2022 8:53:38 GMT
Worth getting the ticker checked. Not mucking about, sooner than later please.
Vitamin B12 too.
Yeah I will. Been taking B12 for weeks now. I honestly think it’s from moving recently along with new job, diy, teenage kids and more. I’m taking time off in 2 weeks to help reset and will probably get a checkup then too. |
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Nov 10, 2022 14:44:09 GMT
Post by PG on Nov 10, 2022 14:44:09 GMT
^ i did say the nuclear reactor would be in the garage, not in the car - that would be ridiculous. It’s not too far off. We worked with a place in California in my last job who were investing heavily in personalized reactors. kairospower.com/What's most impressive is the you can refuel it online. Wow. It's amazing what you can over the internet. From the spec sheet -  |
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Nov 11, 2022 16:54:30 GMT
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Post by rodge on Nov 11, 2022 16:54:30 GMT
It’s not too far off. We worked with a place in California in my last job who were investing heavily in personalized reactors. kairospower.com/What's most impressive is the you can refuel it online. Wow. It's amazing what you can over the internet. From the spec sheet - It’s based on how popular you are. The more clicks/likes, the more plutonium you get. Basic flux capacitor logic 😂 |
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