French Nuclear Power Plant

[Ric.ror]

Why are we getting a French power plant - can't we build our own?

[anotheoldgit]

naomi24

//We should stick two fingers up to the bloody French//

/// Flipping heck, Mikey! If I didn't know better I'd have you down as an avid
Brexiter! ///

It don't stop there Naomi

*** Don't foreigners own enough of Britain as it is ? ***

Blimey has he finally seen the light?

But having said that, this latest remark was a little racist and xenophobic.

[EDDIE51]

All a bit beside the point now as they have decided to put it 'on hold' for at least 6 months more. I would not be surprised to see the entire plan dropped.
I just hope they get something done as we have waited far too long already.
This should all have been done at least 10 years ago. A severe winter could easily be enough to tip the present generating capacity over the edge , so we get power cuts. The National Grid is supposed to ensure that we never go over 75% of the theoretical generating capacity , but the last cold winter saw demand peak at 92% of the maximum!. With a winter like that just a very small fault could bring down the entire grid!
Incidentally how many of you are aware that the real reason the electricity companies are trying to get us all to have 'smart meters' is that every 'smart meter' has a 'remote disconnect' function. That means the generators can switch off your power from the control center just by entering a computer code. They are keeping that one VERY quite! In an emergency 'ordinary consumers' can be disconnected so that power can be maintained to vital services such as hospitals.
There is an even worse scenario though! As it is just a computer code needed to disconnect 1,000s or even 1,000,000 of customers , there is the possibility of a terrorist group hacking into the National Grid comuter system and putting a few million

[EDDIE51]

Sorry hit submit by mistake#
and putting a few million homes,offices & factories 'off grid' for weeks at a time!
It would be a far easier weapon to deploy than a bomb but more destructive!
Take my advice DO NOT get a smart meter!!!!

[jourdain2]

Good advice, EDDIE - but a bit too late for millions of us. I'm not surprised that it has all gone 'on hold', but it is leaving problems - many of our own fabrication. I wasn't convinced by it, but buy candles and jumpers is my advice for the Winter. Something weird (crooked) must have happened to leave Hinkley as our great hope. I've been suspicious of it for years.

I would liked to say 'Get Fracking', but can't, in all honesty, because the infrastructure is not anywhere near in place.

[EDDIE51]

http://www.nickhunn.com/when-smart-meters-get-hacked/
^^^ This is what the power companies do not want you to know!

[Togo]

Begger the French and the Chinooks too. Get fracking and build half a dozen gas fired plants, then sell the bleedin frog chancers electrickery at twice what it cost us, but cheaper than their own. Then hold a gun to their sensitive heads. Months back I was flagging up warnings about the insidious programme of installing smart meters and was, in some quarters. roundly ridiculed. Thank god others are taking the same view. Eddie and I find little common ground some days on here, but on this issue we occupy the high plains together.

[jourdain2]

Thanks for that EDDIE and Togo.

Re. Fracking, as I said, it is the infrastructure that worries me. Where I live is designated for fracking O.K., don't love it, but one of those things. 1st area is at Pickering. I know the roads around there. The Northern route to A1 is impossible because of Sutton Bank (banned to caravans - 76 road blockages last year due to lorries). Presumably the plant will have to access a major road network with heavy lorries. The A64 to the South is totally inadequate (took me 2 hours from York yesterday (Summer traffic) instead of 1) as it is not even dual carriageway all the way and is the only coastal access route, agricultural area and 1 tractor stops everything.

. Another option would be to go through the middle of Malton and, believe me, that is unthinkable - you avoid it at busy times as it is.

So, in theory I support fracking - even though it is in my area - but the roads simply cannot stand it, we have been ignored in the North for so long, too long. We are grinding to a halt as it is.

So, yes, get fracking - but we need investment in the infrastructure first up here.

[Togo]

Jourdain once we can clear that hurdle of knee jerk opposition, the very first thing that will be implemented is the necessary infrastructure to facilitate the programme. That includes roads and communication upgrades pronto. Plus property prices will reflect the improved job prospects for the local people and the willingness of institutions to finance such endeavours. The doom mongers only have to be right once, and they are as eager as ever for that day.

[Hypognosis]

The lights will not go out. But we will pay for the privilege. Take a trip over to

http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk

And hover your cursor over the French interconnector dial. They produce an excess of nuke power all year and sell it to whoever will take it, except in cold winters. Like the proverbial bank, they can take the umbrella away when it's raining.

I'm disappointed that this website has no way to display solar generation, because so much of it isn't metered by the national grid. As displayed in their info bubble, all they can show is a dip in overall demand, either side of midday. Californians have arrays which track the sun all days, our fixed-facing arrays seem to be… a bit naff.