This is a massive EU law judgement. I’m on deadline now but will return to this.

Had John Marshall believed in the afterlife he would now look down form above with considerable satisfaction

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Yes. Cost of interconnectors vs other options is the q here. Peaker combined cycle gas plants pricey - a bit cheaper than nuclear but I don’t know how that compares to continent sized grids or other options.

We don’t have to eliminate gas completely though just limit it to a few percent

SLCOE – system-based LCOE for comparing energy technologies in different systems Levelized cost of electricity and Levelized cost of energy (LCOE) have been used to identify how different energy technologies compare in terms of cos…

Longer answers

Longer - Denmark:

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And this report includes Birmingham.

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SLCOE – system-based LCOE for comparing energy technologies in different systems Levelized cost of electricity and Levelized cost of energy (LCOE) have been used to identify how different energy technologies compare in terms of cos…

Short answer: it can cover most but there’s a need for peaker plants for those conditions or other demand spikes.

Current best way is a usually small amt of gas turbines that kick in. Some countries can do that w hydro. (Eg Norway/Sweden)

1/2

It’s better than Orban but disappointing.

He’s managed one woman…

Szeged Synagogue

The decline started with Breggsit

Eggstremist

The Rumen Radev of Britain

On the left, British Defence Secretary John Healy, visiting Bulgaria

On the right, PM-elect of Bulgaria Rumen Radev

Labour being the new Tories

Would it be enough for Starmer to announce his departure, take the local elections hit and have an orderly succession at the Labour conference?

Or does that sort of thing not work in govt?

Two economists agreeing - so it must be very true!

What’s the elasticity of demand for petroleum products? People will use less, the well off and industry (trucking etc) will buy evs some freight will shift to rail etc.

He could be a shoo-in to replace whoever replaces Starmer once they fail to turn the ship around!

EE 2.2 Consious Uncoupling Breaking the link between gas and electricity is easier than you think

Rachel Reeves managed to wipe several million off SSE's share price on Thursday with a loose promise to decouple electricity and gas prices. Why? And what might she announce this week? 🧵1/6

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Same. I only get delivered food if I’m really sick or my oven is broken or something. If I was pulling 10 million I’d hire a chef though…

Questions for Mr Radev

My friends in BG have been wondering whether he has a state capture project of his own going on…take out Peevski’s powers behind the throne an put in new ones but they don’t have any read on his actual intentions…

Actually, 37-39% were the exit polls. The parallel count gives him more-- 43.5%. He might get an outright majority and be able to govern alone easily.

He has now won-- 37-39% probably. He won not because of his pro-Ru orientation but partly despite it w a mandate to break the corrupt status quo (esp Peevski's hold on the judiciary). But someone who admires Ru cannot possibly do anticorruption. It's oxymoronic.

New heat pump stuff coming. High temp heat for steel cement aluminium still a challenge !

I’m going to guess it’s French centralism plus the fact that people haven’t twigged that solar and wind are just cheaper than everything for normal electricity. If anything France has too much electricity because of all its nuclear. It doesn’t use gas for heat really.

I might add that the upfront cost is outdated. It’s now cheaper to build renewables in most places and electrify as much as possible. Combined cycle gas plants can compete in certain circumstances and are needed for capacity in some places.

Why are they requiring it? It’s presumably profitable for the car parks

(Because they’re the French is an acceptable answer here )

Conclusions: Market economies are very flexible- try and avoid communism and major banking crises and pandemics.

But whatever you do NEVER vote for a Kirchner.

And finally lets look at Argentina. What’s this flat line big enough to see from space. That’s the economic mismanagement by the Kirchners.

Unbeatable disaster. Uruguay in purple is there for the comparison

How about - invading your neighbour?

Russia the dark line, Poland the light one here.

A bit of underperformance, but the real effects haven’t kicked in yet…

(as with the gfc and the communism the effects of disaster show up after they’ve done their damage)