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I'd suggest that by supplying weapons to Hamas and Hezbolah they have been involved for a long time.
I still don't like what's happening though.

My understanding was that the failure was due to a shift in frequency ultimately caused by a lack of rotating mass on the grid (because solar and wind use inverters rather than spinning generators). Detecting this caused inverters to trip out, and a cascade failure, nothing to do with pricing.

What about socialist robots? :D

Not gonna disagree with you or the great outcome (pratchet fan here..) but I'd probably have gone for Putin.. Given the amount of shit he's sturred globally (including against the lgbtq community), I married a Ukrainian and I've not been to Ukraine since 2022. :(

Currently when the wind is calm or it's night time the slack is taken up with gas/oil, no wonder the fossil fuel companies are invested in these technologies, as it leaves them a big space in the energy market.

Currently when the wind is calm or it's night time the slack is taken up with gas/oil, no wonder the fossil fuel companies are invested in these technologies, as it leaves them a big space in the energy market.

So for a 1MW reactor you'll need 2-4MW of installed wind/solar + atleast 24MWh of storage (although with seasonal variation you'd probably need more)
Our current usage (right now) is ~40GW from gridwatch.co.uk
Any idea how expensive 960GWh of storage would be?

There are very few cheap solutions that are able to operate without storage, and at grid scale that is not cheap.
You must also factor in generating capacity, wind and solar never run at 100% (solar less than 40% in 24 hours) whereas nuclear is 99.99% day, night, winter, summer windy, still.

Perhaps getting people on high speed rail for internal and European journeys could help.. Would need to reduce the cost of train tickets to compensate for the longer travel times though.
Still amazes me that it was cheaper to fly from Southampton to Newcastle than take a train..