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[–] yuumei@feddit.uk 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

That's primary energy consumption, you want to look at electricity generation:

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 points 3 months ago

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What's the difference?

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[–] yuumei@feddit.uk 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Primary energy includes everything: oil used for cars, coal used for steel production. The article is only about electricity and the comment was about wind power making up the majority, which it is very close to doing.

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[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

Both are important to shift over to more renewables though.

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

They are installing AC at a breakneck pace.

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[–] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

One problem is a lot of wind power is generated up north, but a large majority of electricity consumption happens further south and the grid infrastructure isn't equipped to transmit all that power that distance

I'm sure it was Simon Clark who talked about this in a video, but I can't find the exact one at a glance

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[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago

I'm sure this has nothing to do with more demanding data centers

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

Okay guy from the third world here, is it just the rose-tinted glasses or am I correct in thinking this is something emphatically not supposed to happen in developed countries?

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[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

It's not but here we are

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Another day, another UK article where I’m like,

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago

How short notice and for how long are important things I would want to know.

How much firewood and how many hot water bottles should I keep stocked.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Perhaps Britain should roll out solar panel incentives and neighborhood battery backups? Some offshore wind might be useful right around now as well.

This is only going to get worse the longer that it’s ignored. Importing fossil fuels isn’t going to fix it. Heat is continually going up — more people will be adding air conditioning and stressing the grid.

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[–] Senal@programming.dev 8 points 3 months ago

They've had solar incentives,multiple times, the government fucked around and made it absolutely excruciating, then fully dropped it with a big fuck you.

There were legit financial reasons for this afaik, but it still left a bunch of people holding the bag.

People are understandably wary of any new promises.

I wonder if this it is a coincidence that this comes closely on the heels of : this or this or this

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 5 points 3 months ago

What if instead we added more fossil fuels - AND - further centralised the power grid? Hah? Pretty smart, eh?

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[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 2 points 3 months ago

We have a lot of wind. Not enough yet in my opinion, but there have been days when renewables generated 100% of the consumption and many instances where wind has had to stop producing due to excess (yes that's a design problem)