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Rolls royce are hoping to build the first SMRs by 2029. If the regulators pull their fingers out.
Funnily enough Nick Clegg said in 2010 renewables were the way to go as new nuclear power stations wouldn't be ready until 2022
Typical modern politicians only care about now and never mind tomorrow
Probably best regulators are slow, ill take slow and safe over rushed and ?
No not at all. It was done deliberately by Gordon Brown because they were determined to kill off nuclear.
It is a bit like road works. They decided to fine operators if they went over time. so the contractors just go for the maximum length of time - sit around doing sweet FA for ages - then work like crazy at the end.
Extra safety it honestly doesn't bring!
The US and French regulators literally take half the time as they allocate proper resources to it.
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Fat fingers.Are we doing cryptic clues now?
I was going to say.
I believe that Fusion energy will cause, massive changes in almost everything.
When it happens, it will blow up the other forms of energy production,
The wind turbines,solar,oil, or anything else will be worse than useless, and the companies will be liable for the clean up and disposal.
Companies will need to run away, before it comes on line.
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4 years for Uk and 5 for US. I don't have figures for France but it's unlikely to be substantially shorter. I'm really not sure how you get those figures as there's only been 2 plants built in the US since 2013 (Both still under construction) , the last before those were 1978. France haven't had any new reactors enter service since early 2000s, though Flammanville is under construction currently, and substantially delayed.
You can't just hand wave and say "It's the regulators". As said, there's a reason it takes a long time.
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DVSA are apparently really clamping down on this sort of thing, any modifications to the chassis and they want you to put the car through BIVA. Which no car that old will pass without major changes.
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This is of course is , only good if the discovery is able to be massively up scaled to be useful enough to make the steam required to drive the generator's turbines.
Many an exciting new laborority discovery fails exactly for that reason .
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That’s ridiculous, nuclear takes a LOT longer than 12 years! Not surprised Clegg came out with fibs like that though.Funnily enough Nick Clegg said in 2010 renewables were the way to go as new nuclear power stations wouldn't be ready until 2022
Typical modern politicians only care about now and never mind tomorrow
Hinkley C was announced in 2010, however, as all the locals know, ground work had already begun before approval in 2012 so it was no surprise. Masses of work had been completed before the official start in 2016. Unfortunately Hinkley C is now at least 50% over budget and two years behind already. Personally id be surprised if we come in at under double the original costs and get power on the grid before 2030.
We could really use Hinkley C right now, the UK nuclear fleet can only muster just over 10% of peak demand. Fortunately wind is currently generating far more at around 25% and it’s not even windy outside
There are companies doing such things though - I'd always assumed as it was a bolt in conversion, not much else happened - I'd not thought about it much. But an EV conversion is a major change, probably quite a weight addition, and things like demisters, brake servos, maybe even the entire brake system might need changing/upgrading - and you would think that would require testing as much as new kit car builds.
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There is a TV programme about a Welsh company electrifying vehicles, not sure what channel it’s on but it’s called Vintage Voltage. Most of the conversions seem to be north of about 40 grand. The owners must have more money than sense, take a, in most cases a valuable car, cut it about ruin it’s originality spend 50 odd grand on it, doesn’t add up to me. One of the cars done was a Gordon Keeble, really carved about to get the batteries in.
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I watched a few episodes of that series, and tbh even as a rank amateur, I wasn't impressed by the standard of some of the fabrication work. 
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I watched a couple of the early episodes, one of which had the electric motor running through the stock 5 speed car gearbox. And I've heard since that the sheer torque of the motor at low rpm, through a reduction box, would simply grenade the rear end right from the start. Interesting to watch, for a while, but ultimately pointless conversions.
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VW id4 is what I ordered, originally due January, current estimate is June
Wind 25%?That’s ridiculous, nuclear takes a LOT longer than 12 years! Not surprised Clegg came out with fibs like that though.
Hinkley C was announced in 2010, however, as all the locals know, ground work had already begun before approval in 2012 so it was no surprise. Masses of work had been completed before the official start in 2016. Unfortunately Hinkley C is now at least 50% over budget and two years behind already. Personally id be surprised if we come in at under double the original costs and get power on the grid before 2030.
We could really use Hinkley C right now, the UK nuclear fleet can only muster just over 10% of peak demand. Fortunately wind is currently generating far more at around 25% and it’s not even windy outside
Not for the last 2 weeks! Some days less than 2%!
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Speak for yourself, I have enough wind for several people, so 200% + here. I tried a new Indian restaurant earlier this week , followed by some stout and even the dog is disgusted with me
A good week for solar though for this time of year. Apart from a couple of misty days, this cold spell has given quite a few clear sunny days. The sun is low in the sky and the days are short and the panel angle need a little tweak to avoid a bit of shading but I still got about a quarter of our electricity from the panels.
The reason the graph is spiky is that the inverter is charging the battery when there's less demand than production, and feeding it back when needed. The sensor is after the battery so can't differentiate the two in detail until I sort out the tool that talks to the inverter over the RS485 port. I think I'll need more batteries in summer. The little spike seems to be a battery health check where it charges the battery from the grid briefly early in the morning, that's an assumption, but it does it every day and I've read that other hybrid inverters do something similar.
The graph shown is apparent power, on the real power graph that little spike is negative. Power factor of the inverter is nearly 1.0, typically 0.98, so real and apparent graphs are almost identical.
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Hmm... I recall it was a popular conversion to fit Beemer boxer lumps into them. Don't recall much mention of gearbox life, probably take 75bhp fine, after all it's not 275hp.
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That's coz we drive on the Right side of the road
Still like Narnia by my house - sun never reaches our valley in Winter.Speak for yourself, I have enough wind for several people, so 200% + here. I tried a new Indian restaurant earlier this week , followed by some stout and even the dog is disgusted with me
A good week for solar though for this time of year. Apart from a couple of misty days, this cold spell has given quite a few clear sunny days. The sun is low in the sky and the days are short and the panel angle need a little tweak to avoid a bit of shading but I still got about a quarter of our electricity from the panels.
The reason the graph is spiky is that the inverter is charging the battery when there's less demand than production, and feeding it back when needed. The sensor is after the battery so can't differentiate the two in detail until I sort out the tool that talks to the inverter over the RS485 port. I think I'll need more batteries in summer. The little spike seems to be a battery health check where it charges the battery from the grid briefly early in the morning, that's an assumption, but it does it every day and I've read that other hybrid inverters do something similar.
The graph shown is apparent power, on the real power graph that little spike is negative. Power factor of the inverter is nearly 1.0, typically 0.98, so real and apparent graphs are almost identical.
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