In 25 years of house owning I’ve never had to replace a boiler. Service…yes. Repair…yes. Never replace. I’ve even had boilers that are no longer made due to safety regs changing.

Nobody is telling people to rip out their boilers.

Ok, I see where you’re coming from and agree.

That’s obviously a cello.

“Recieving stolen goods” is prosecutable.

It’s a lesser crime than the original theft though.

10 years to say no new boilers can be installed is not unrealistic. All you need to have is a good supply of an alternative and a supply of maintenance parts for current boilers. You can set that up in 5 years.

Wouldn’t have stopped repairing old boilers when they break. My old house had a back boiler of a type that was banned in the 80s. It broke a few times, but never had to replace it.

it was never going to work.

I’d rather have a ten year target and fail to hit it, than have no target.

https://lemmy.world/post/24430665

An electric plane will expend similar levels of energy to a jet plane.

Increasing airport size as a way to stimulate economic growth seems like dated thinking to me. Flights are increasingly not used for business travel as communications technology has advanced. All you’re really doing is trying to maintain hub status for London which doesn’t drive economic activity outside of the airport industry.

Heathrow needs a third runway as much as it needs a rollercoaster. A huge construction project, with all the emissions that brings, that paves over houses, green spaces and the M25 (on a bridge).

Finally, I guess we can see why Labour whipped against the environment bill last week.

Having someone review things because it’s “expected” is a great way to get people rubber stamping stuff.

Robert Maxwell was a known sleeze bag in his own right.

Where have you seen that, what a terrible idea!

In the user manuals for the inverters I’ve looked at installing. Same is true for many battery inverters.

If they need to integrate with a grid supply at all, they must switch at precisely the right frequency. Mains frequency drifts and so that frequency must come from the grid.

Now some will also have a grid isolated mode where they can generate their own frequency when there’s no other option, but that’s not on all models as it’s a feature they don’t need for 99.99% of their life, especially when grid operators generally don’t want people energising the grid from their batteries when the mains is down as it puts workmen at risk. Cables become live at unexpected times. So if you do have an inverter capable of running without mains you also have to have isolation switch so you only energised your own wiring.

An alternative is a separate isolated output that only ever runs on the generated power and not the mains, but that’s a pain for all the rest of the time.

Right but, for example,

• most solar Inverters require a power supply to operate and define the switching frequency.
• Distributed storage and private generation may have enabled some areas to get by on reduced supply.
• Turbines and solar farms may have been in locations threatened by the fires or been damaged by ash / other debris.
• Repairing grid structure whilst the may be private batteries or generation online (damaged or not) might slow things down for safety reasons.

Once the electrons are on the wires I agree with you, it’s all much the same. However there are other aspects and I expect we’re still learning the good and the bad.

Jaherys? Is that you?

Name and shame!

Friends don’t let other people suffer the same fate.

I’d be more interested to know how things have been in the recent disaster scenarios. The fires have downed power infrastructure all over the place. Have renewables been a positive, negative, or no different in terms of keeping the power on for people?

Looking at the Product Conformance pages, it looks like you need a GCN 1.0 device for Vulkan 1.0 support (current is 1.4).

Thames was a Terrascale 2 architecture (i.e. the one before GCN1.0) and as such can’t support Vulkan or DX12.

Is it that surprising when we’re talking about a creature that looked something like this?

The rationale for doing this must only be for fun. You’re talking about a project that will take man years, and the price of a new vulkan capable graphics card is $300-400.