The Empire Strikes Out

softestpawn says:
The intent is to build a ‘smartgrid’, where low-urgency tasks such as routine clothes washing and water heating automatically switch on when energy is cheaper and more available, such as when wind farms are online.
It’s downright magical, isn’t it, how – even in spite of the record of experience with wind farms as proven abject failures on their own in many ways and in need of conventional backup anyway, etc. – simply wishing it will work still makes it so? And how, the more wishful it is, the more it is true, just because it is “possible” – on the strength of a kind of equal and opposite “Precautionary Principle” which otherwise always leads to the Apocalypse because it is possible?
Well, softestpawn, you first! It seems you even think you are perfectly fit for it. Unless I missed your sarcasim.
Because the reality of the “smart grid” now as stated is that it will make a lot of things mere people = the Proletariat associate with their current “standard of living” start to disappear; in turn making their “low-urgency tasks”….again as defined by the Post Normal Peoples’ Elitist “quality” of perfection which is always attached to themselves solely by their own wishful self-annointment and then their self-assertion of the same thing, such that, finally, “I say it, therefore, it is true”….making the Proletariat’s “low-urgency tasks” progressively more urgent and lowering their standard of living.
Not to mention the decrease of their/our freedoms, rights, and economic liberty, resulting from “we the proles” being under the control of the State.
There’s really no end to this process for the Proletariat and the Bourgeoise – if there really is any distinction between the two in practice – except their complete enslavement or death, unless they stop it politically or nonviolently before it’s too late, or revolt just as the Communists say they should, against the Oppressor Masters they always say they are here to save the world from, but which the Communists themselves strangely always come to eventually embody whenever they get control, as a perfection of their own materialistic physical principle of “history as class warfare”, the Master-Slave Society, which some of them and their “usefuls” probably thought they were going to magically escape. Because it was “possible”?

Look! The solution for generating electricity during low/no wind periods is to draw on the Strategic Wind Reserve. Granted it will need to be replenished later but, there are many periods of excess wind or, so my wife says.

At the end of this day, it pitifully comes down to “Labor Party Science” that fails to address the issues or to even address a future in an insightful way.
May God have mercy on the souls who will suffer from the ignorance in the UK.

We have seen this coming for some time. It is because our rulers are Quislings obeying dictats from the EU. I have installed my 12 KVA standby generator. I have also installed a 4KW PV solar array. Not to save us from CAGW but to cash in on the stupid government subsidies!

eadler:
The smart grid is about technology that will reduce the cost of electricity to everybody.
Right, dear eadlers of the world, if you can’t get it, voila, you won’t have to pay for it! – “cost” problem solved by the Ministry of Electric Justice’s “smart grid”, “a model for future Sustainability!” Oh oh, except as per the Steaming Idiocy Brilliance of Obamacare’s Commerce Clause argument where even if, and when, you don’t buy it or can’t buy it for whatever reason, you are by means of a new definition of “commerce”, which now doesn’t even try to say what is not “commerce”, still engaging in “commerce”; and therefore you have to buy it if the Government says so, even if there isn’t enough of it there for everyone to buy – via various techniques and forces producing scarcity and rationing – by sending money to the IRS.
Social Justice [including your “right” to healthcare, which already existed before Obamacare due to the law regarding Emergency Room services and was in fact payed for “Nationally” by anyone who had Ins. coverage or could pay something, noting that a lot of people and entities were also willingly providing a certain per cent of free care] = the right of the Central Government to redistribute and ration potentially everything; which then reduces the supply of whatever is redistributed or rationed since there is eventually almost no incentive for anyone to produce it, that is, if it is only going to be appropriated/”stripped of their backs” by the Central Government and given out “equally” to other people, that is, after the Gov’t takes takes its “healthy” cut, essentiallly as another Parasite upon the Producers, or eventually upon anyone who has anything left to take.
Instead of wealth creation, Social Justice = wealth confiscation and destruction of wealth, fbo the Central Government or the Party.
Attn., eadlers of the world, Communism never works except for its SlaveMasters – which is apparently why you eadlers like it? Or do you really believe in the possibility of a Utopia, a Heaven on Earth?

I see every cow fart, wind farm, cold fission/fusion, biomass, kitchen waste, energy specialist has now found the topic. Along with the usual energy distribution experts in electric transportation across international borders, the Americas, Canada, EU etc. Then there are the amateur economists telling everyone how less of a product will not only make every one safer, more comfortable, but richer.
I have an idea. Sell your nonsense to Zimbabwe. The former bread basket of Africa. It will bring in a million.

I worry when Holliday talks about investing 200+ billion pounds (see here). Does Great Britain even have enough incentive to offer for that?
Thank you, Atomic Hairdryer, for mentioning the 2012 Olympics. Let be bowdlerize my first reaction as “Oh, brother”.

Can Green Sand send another, wider scan of the actual newspaper? ie. Wide enough to include Mr Holliday’s full face rather than just his left ear?

Three and a half words that turn “Save the planet!” into “Drill, baby, drill!”
Mommy, I’m cold.

PJ O’Rouke once said, ‘Everyone wants to save the world. But no one wants to help mom wash the dishes.”
I might add that that these new climate saviors have a problem with mom washing dishes -at least with hot waters, which was warmed by fossile fuels.

” ALL households would have to, old appliances would have to be thrown out. Very economical and “sustainable”.”
What we’ve been told in the U.S., and this comes from power companies which tend to be privately-owned here, is that we’re either going to have to reduce our usage, or see our rates jacked up substantially. We just don’t have the capacity to sustain current growth and power plants can’t be built fast enough to keep up with demand.

PatK says:
March 7, 2011 at 1:20 am
“Can Green Sand send another, wider scan of the actual newspaper? ie. Wide enough to include Mr Holliday’s full face rather than just his left ear?”
Excellent sir!