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There is a very easy way for the UK to solve the Gibraltar issue. The same line of reasoning would also allow it to drastically improve its relationship with Argentina.
the fact that the people don't want to be Spanish or Argentinian is just a small inconvenience to be ignored, right? (referendums in both were >99% remain in the UK)
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There is a very easy way for the UK to solve the Gibraltar issue. The same line of reasoning would also allow it to drastically improve its relationship with Argentina.
“There is a very easy way for Ukraine to solve the Russia issue”. In the case of Gibraltar, the UK can merely bypass Spain for its energy needs.
What’s next? Claim Ireland maybe?
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I.e., you did not read what I wrote, and just made shit up, instead. Goodbye.
O I read it, it’s just clear you don’t understand the topic at all. Which makes picking just a few things to correct hard. Ex: “you need to minimize fluctuations on power going through your transmission line.” That sounds reasonable, yes you need to maintain grid frequency etc, but it’s got almost nothing to do with transmission lines. Further there is equipment to deal with various transitory issues that is much che…
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O I read it, it’s just clear you don’t understand the topic at all. Which makes picking just a few things to correct hard. Ex: “you need to minimize fluctuations on power going through your transmission line.” That sounds reasonable, yes you need to maintain grid frequency etc, but it’s got almost nothing to do with transmission lines. Further there is equipment to deal with various transitory issues that is much che…
Still making shit up: A HVDC transmission line has no "grid frequency".
So even your pedantic objections are misinformed.
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Check again - the ambassador status was granted last year. The genuine best efforts spanned from 2017-ish (negotiations didn't start in 2016 after the vote) to 2019. It took a while for the UK to realise the EU no longer wanted to be friendly and cordial, and that's when the UK's own stance finally changed. A bilateral treaty between the UK and EU is not "international law". A bilateral treaty contains exit clauses t…
> The genuine best efforts spanned from 2017-ish (negotiations didn't start in 2016 after the vote) to 2019. It took a while for the UK to realise the EU no longer wanted to be friendly and cordial, and that's when the UK's own stance finally changed. The UK wasted everyone time during 3 years asking for things which it was told at the beginning were impossible and kept reneging on their agreements during the whole t…
A veiled threat is not breaking any clauses. You should look up the number of times the Swiss (and others) have threatened to withdraw from so-and-so agreement with the EU. It isn't new. The EU has dozens of active arguments/negotiations with dozens of countries at any given time. And we already established that this is a bilateral treaty and without any guarantors (unlike the Good Friday Agreement) and hence could be ripped up at a moments notice by either party if they so chose. Just look at the number of times France has made threats in relation to the Trade and [non-]Cooperation Agreement (TCA). The exit clauses are merely there to offer a graceful means of pre-agreed exit strategies.
The EU however *literally drafted emergency powers legal text* to trigger the Article 16 (exit clause) of the N.I. Protocol during a dispute - a petty, tawdry and without any basis in reality dispute at that - regarding Covid-19 vaccines.
It is remarkable how the tone of your posts reveals how "on edge" you are about this. Even laden with typos such is the haste with which you type. It (Brexit - an event which concluded over two years ago) is clearly still a very raw nerve for you.
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Still making shit up: A HVDC transmission line has no "grid frequency".
HVDC lines are still relatively rare, most transmission lines do have “grid frequency” as converting to HVDC has significant losses. Of course there is equipment to match frequencies, even for Japan’s 50 vs 60hz system, but again it costs money and lowers efficiency. So even your pedantic objections are misinformed.
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> Saying tankage is cheap is to note that there is no upper limit on the amount of tankage you can have, and the watt-hours you can bank; your bottleneck is only the conversion rate. I think there are a lot of use cases for those fuels that don't even require a lot of long term storage, my current favorite being hydrogen fuel cell powered semi trucks that already burn a lot of diesel crossing places that have a lot o…
Once people get used to electrical synthesis of ammonia, those wide-open spaces will be making their own fertilizer and tractor fuel. They might sell the excess to nearby truck stops. Ammonia is not quite as dense as diesel, but trucks typically have enough room for it. Advantage is trucks (like farm tractors) can be cheaply retrofitted to burn ammonia. I see reports about a problem of UK farmers who make more from d…
> The problem may be self-limiting: they may end up unable to compete with farmers doing double- or triple-use, with solar, wind, and cultivation in the same field.
Can you share that report?
I'd like to see a triple use farm. Great idea in concept, but I doubt that there a lot places that have a climate that makes wind, solar, and shade vegetable growth economical on the same land. Otherwise we would see this pervasively across California's Central valley.
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Once people get used to electrical synthesis of ammonia, those wide-open spaces will be making their own fertilizer and tractor fuel. They might sell the excess to nearby truck stops. Ammonia is not quite as dense as diesel, but trucks typically have enough room for it. Advantage is trucks (like farm tractors) can be cheaply retrofitted to burn ammonia. I see reports about a problem of UK farmers who make more from d…
> I see reports about a problem of UK farmers who make more from dedicated solar, per hectare, than they were making growing. > The problem may be self-limiting: they may end up unable to compete with farmers doing double- or triple-use, with solar, wind, and cultivation in the same field. Can you share that report? I'd like to see a triple use farm. Great idea in concept, but I doubt that there a lot places that hav…
Renewables are still very far from built out, so not seeing something done in your vicinity tells you very little about its practicality.
A pretty good rundown on shared use for solar PV and vegetable crops is at https://greencoast.org/agrivoltaics/ with reports of better yields, up to 3x in certain crops, from reduced heat stress and water loss, and also higher efficiency in the panels from cooler operation.
There are many different configurations being experimented with. Just elevating and spacing out the panels in otherwise conventional installations is common. But some are putting in exactly-vertical, double-sided panels, starting near ground level, that they drive tractors between. Panels have been used on the roofs of greenhouses for a long time. Using the framework supporting panels for other apparatus, such as irrigation piping, is common. In some fields, panels are placed directly above plants to protect them against harsh weather.
There are experiments with partially transparent panels, that harvest the green light plants don't use, and pass the rest through.
An example of people in UK complaining (at length) about solar PV displacing agriculture is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFgM5hO2e1Y
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HVDC lines are still relatively rare, most transmission lines do have “grid frequency” as converting to HVDC has significant losses. Of course there is equipment to match frequencies, even for Japan’s 50 vs 60hz system, but again it costs money and lowers efficiency. So even your pedantic objections are misinformed.
Again, just making shit up: TFA says "10GW HVDC" in the first paragraph .
Let’s look at a HVDC list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HVDC_projects
VS say: https://cecgis-caenergy.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/260b451...
Looks like as I said HVDC are rare. It’s ok not to be an expert on something but don’t try to fake it you just look like a fool.
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Again, just making shit up: TFA says "10GW HVDC" in the first paragraph .
Sure and that’s relevant because why? Let’s look at a HVDC list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HVDC_projects VS say: https://cecgis-caenergy.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/260b451... Looks like as I said HVDC are rare. It’s ok not to be an expert on something but don’t try to fake it you just look like a fool.