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New comment by thedrbrian in "UK secures record supply of offshore wind projects"

thedrbrian — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:31:39 +0000

>All sorts of congratulatory posts about AR7...the £94 /MWh being roughly the level of today's wholesale power price is being used as some sort of positive signal

So here are some facts:

* The average wholesale power price in 2025 was £80 /MWh * The carbon price was £35 /t a year ago and £73 /t today * Carbon was c11-12% of the wholesale power price a year ago * It's c28% today * AR7 contracts are for 20 years vs 15 years in AR1-6 * AR7 is the highest price since the first auction * We started subsidising wind in 1990!!

How anyone can think this is good news is beyond me. It's obviously good news for the subsidy farmers who will enjoy 20 year contracts at inflated prices, unless Reform wins the next General Election and rips them up in which case it will be pretty bad news

It is terrible news for consumers, embedding high prices for decades to come

> https://x.com/KathrynPorter26/status/2011693634278625460

Get in. we've just locked in / subsidized the most expensive form of energy.

New comment by thedrbrian in "Wind power slashed 4.6B euros off electricity bills in Spain last year"

thedrbrian — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:26:07 +0000

but if they go down by 1 cent per kwh then technically the price did go down.

New comment by thedrbrian in "Welcome to Gas Town"

thedrbrian — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:28:09 +0000

They’re the new bitcoin bros.

New comment by thedrbrian in "Volkswagen to close German plant, a first in their company history"

thedrbrian — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:56:20 +0000

Germans are missing that cheap Russian energy.

New comment by thedrbrian in "United 777-200 fleet faces an uncertain future after Dulles engine failure"

thedrbrian — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:52:09 +0000

Just put it in the hold. I can’t stand waiting for the cheapskate to find somewhere to put their 45kg “rucksack” in the over head bins just to save a tenner.

New comment by thedrbrian in "The time has finally come for geothermal energy"

thedrbrian — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 23:08:15 +0000

Its so easy that you can’t name me a single city of more than 10000 people that runs entirely off renewables.

New comment by thedrbrian in "Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani's policies as 'normal'"

thedrbrian — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 23:01:19 +0000

Can confirm have paid for the bus.

New comment by thedrbrian in "The value of bringing a telephoto lens"

thedrbrian — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 13:33:27 +0000

>One day, after "seeing" some good shots in my head and totally missing them due to phone camera limitations, I decided I had to fix it.

That was my problem. Went to an air show and used my iPhone 13 and got some good pictures. iPhone 16 comes out and it’s got a 5x zoom and the best camera ever. You’re gonna love it. And the pictures were better but still ok.

So I’ve gone all in and bought a proper Canon mirrorless and a selection of lenses including a 100mm to 400mm and it’s miles better.

I tell the camera what to focus on , I set everything and I control what it does no software second guessing me and taking a lovely picture of a tree and not the eurofighrer in the background.

I love that it’s got one job and it does it brilliantly.

New comment by thedrbrian in "Perrinn 424 – An open access electric hyper car designed for racing"

thedrbrian — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 12:59:18 +0000

And like the car completely hypothetical.

New comment by thedrbrian in "I just sold my Bored Ape (#3707) today for $37,000. I bought it for $425,000."

thedrbrian — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 12:55:43 +0000

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So how is that blockchain going? Still at a minuscule fraction of visa for 10x the power?

New comment by thedrbrian in "Full Moon: Seestar S50 vs. Samsung S25"

thedrbrian — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:36:01 +0000

Could you explain the stacking process or put up a link explaining it?

New comment by thedrbrian in "4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC"

thedrbrian — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 10:49:40 +0000

>£75 a month seems very reasonable for sports nerds, compared to the cost and availability in the past

good that you ignore the actual point of the comment that you replied to

>That won't actually allow you to watch all of the matches that are played, because for weird historical reasons there's a TV blackout on matches played on Saturday afternoon - even if you've paid for your subscriptions, you'll only be able to watch about half of all league matches on TV.

New comment by thedrbrian in "Ferrari were SO impressed by the Xiaomi SU7, they bought one"

thedrbrian — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:26:33 +0000

I know this may seem amazing to people who don’t like cars but all the manufacturers buy each others cars for study and comparison. Hell the chinese steal most of their styling from other cars.

New comment by thedrbrian in "Solar becomes top source of electricity in California"

thedrbrian — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:48:14 +0000

Need that anakin meme.

And it’s got the cheapest electricity right. …. The cheapest right?

New comment by thedrbrian in "ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral"

thedrbrian — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 22:34:07 +0000

they detained him for his drug use

https://x.com/CBP/status/1937651325354795444

New comment by thedrbrian in "BYD begins testing solid-state EV batteries in the Seal"

thedrbrian — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:09:11 +0000

>is your closest gas station 2 miles away?

No but it only takes 3 minutes to dump 45 litres of fuel into my car and that lasts about 3 weeks of driving.

New comment by thedrbrian in "Into The Tunnel: The secret life of wind tunnels"

thedrbrian — Sat, 24 May 2025 21:01:33 +0000

If you want to know more about the European transonic wind tunnel , there’s a great podcast from OMEGA Tau

https://omegataupodcast.net/76-the-european-transonic-windtu...

New comment by thedrbrian in "If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling"

thedrbrian — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:22:39 +0000

I’ve got Virgin cable and can pull 6Gb a minute from fast.com. Your hypothetical 50Gb steam game would take a whole 9 minutes assuming steam can saturate my connection. So that’s like enough time to hit start download , make a brew and come back to the pc. Why bother.

New comment by thedrbrian in "Palm phytoliths in subarctic Canada imply ice-free winters 48M years ago"

thedrbrian — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 08:13:04 +0000

How many flights were people allowed on back then and how much carbon tax did they pay?

New comment by thedrbrian in "How Nissan and Honda's $60B merger talks collapsed"

thedrbrian — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:24:07 +0000

and it's not a tenth as good looking as the concept