Andrew Sinclair

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Husband, father, Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Evertonian. Often not sure in which order though. Sometimes talks sense about the electricity generation sector, likes old power stations (but obviously not the stuff they put out into the environment).

Helping build a nuclear power station #BuiltByUs

Threadshttps://www.threads.net/@smellycatdotorg
Linkedinwww.linkedin.com/in/andrew-sinclair-9b79b033

@janrosenow, it would be rude not to share this :-)

https://xkcd.com/2790/

Heat Pump

xkcd

WTF😱

"Ford has worked hard on ensuring the battery electric four-row premium luxury SUV will have plenty of lightweight solutions on board so that it maintains a kerbweight of just four tonnes – unusually light for this class of car."

That's not how it's supposed to work.

Exclusive: Ford Fiesta to be reinvented as £200k LWB Cadillac Escalade rival | Top Gear
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/satire/exclusive-ford-fiesta-be-reinvented-ps200k-lwb-cadillac-escalade-rival

Exclusive: Ford Fiesta to be reinvented as £200k LWB Cadillac Escalade rival

Plucky, lightweight supermini to morph into four-tonne American road tank

Top Gear
Do Nigel Farage, Fiona Bruce and Laura Kuenssberg know anything about football and have they any prior commitments tomorrow evening?
Asking for a friend 🤔
Pork pi’s.

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@EarthOrgUK I just received this from Octopus.

National Grid in the UK doing more demand-side management testing tomorrow morning, looking for 189 MW of reductions.

Also... Captain Jean-Luc Picard is running the National Grid this afternoon. We are in good hands 😀

#MakeItSo

And in the early hours, the two Drax units and the West Burton unit starts were cancelled. No additional coal on the system today.
Disclaimer - I'm an EDF employee but on the Hinkley Point C project, I have no special insights into the generation side of the business in respect of West Burton.
When I worked on a coal plant (Didcot A), we could get a 500 W unit that was hot back onto the bars in less than an hour (at the cost of life reduction of boiler components). A warm unit could be got on in a longer period (eight hours or so from first burner in service) but a stone cold unit would take a lot longer to get ready to sync as you have a huge amount of thermal inertia in the boiler and steam turbine to overcome by careful warming.