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The Idirans were right all along.

It's fine but a proposal to do something without the political will to make any of the difficult compromises required to achieve them is meaningless.

I mean, ok, fine guys but this is just more empty gestures from a club of empty heads in the GroenLinks/PvdA clown-car. I don't recall that they were against (in fact they were in …

Which of those references are obscure?

This is a terrible article, written by someone who is either dishonest or doesn't know what they're talking about and has never been to London, covering a paper that appears to be …

>And while they are shutting down coal, they still have a huge former coal plant that is now burning biomass in London. That's a single plant that powers most of London. Do you mea…

Which damage? The electricity system has done most of its decarbonising under either the coalition or Conservative governments, they used quite a lot of the machinery (the CfDs, ca…

The timelines for encyclopaedia article contributions, editing and publishing are such that I highly doubt that an encyclopaedia bought in 2024 has much if any LLM generated conten…

Part of the problem is that heat pumps aren't really well suited to a use case where you frequently have to bring a house up to temp in the way you're describing. If you have a big…

London as well, or at least broke even. (Although of course this is complicated to assess and contested). Same reason, all infrastructure was either already there or usable after (…

I think this is a dumb idea, but come on, all prosecutions are retroactive.

There's a policy decision to cover as much as possible of the operating costs of the network from fares rather than government funding. The operating costs of UK trains per passeng…

The heavy forged sections of a pressure vessel are really thick and there is a limit to how thick a single weld can be using conventional techniques. So you have to do many passes.…

The tides are not constant but they are predictable. The majority of tidal flow is during relative short periods of only a few hours. In order to harvest tidal energy, truly enormo…

There's a huge amount of North-South capacity being built as part of the holistic network design programme which will unlock a lot of capacity and substantially reduce curtailment.…

We (an engineering consultancy, so not software but physical infrastructure) have an internal ChatGPT so that people can use it for work. I find that it is quite good at answering …

Plea bargains are heavily restricted in the UK and many of these cases were heard in Crown courts. I agree about getting rid of private prosecutions though.

There's broadly two reasons for this: One, the evidence for it being a carcinogen remains relatively weak compared to many other substances we know of. It's in that category of che…

The Polish wholesale power price is above even what nuclear power costs to deliver in higher-cost UK and US markets on an LCOE basis (not that LCOE is a great way of comparing powe…

PGE will finance it on-balance sheet, the way they would a coal plant. Most likely there will be US export finance for the elements coming from the US but most spend on big nuclear…

In many places (but not the US because of thermostat standards) HVAC systems are now typically inverter driven as well so that does remove some of the advantages of three-phase sin…

The US also uses a different primary network configuration, typically running a three-phase network as main primary with single phase primary laterals. The pole-mount single-phase …

The latest quantitative risk assessment of hydrogen in a domestic context is that slightly greater explosion risk is outweighed by the slightly lower fire risk. Hydrogen has a wide…

There are no "EU citizens" only citizens of EU member countries. None of those countries have freedom of speech as expansive as Americans but Americans in practice also don't have …

Not in practice, no. Companies were provided with a regulatory position statement from the EA that they would not usually be prosecuted if they ran out of treatment chemicals due t…