Wind turbines used to absorb a power surplus?

Adjusting field tweaks the phase angle in either direction.

System PF correction is needed because most big loads are inductive. Adding real or simulated capacitors is best done out in the network, not at the generator.

The "reactive power", the quadrature current, increses transmission losses.

Nothing smart about her. She is in fact completely unemployable even given our extremely tight labor market post covid and wastes everyone's time when she is stupid enough to tell the authoritys that they arent legally allowed to do what they are doing and gets told to go and f*ck herself EVERY TIME she trys that.

When our new suburban trains no longer allow anyone to hit the panic button to open the doors unless central control allows that in the event of a major train crash, the stupid clown carrys a battery powered angle grinder with her at all times even tho we only have a major train crash every 50 years or so.

Yikes. On that basis, I wouldn't insult her.

She is 300 miles from me and I dont use sydney suburban trains.

And I don't insult her, just state the facts about her.

They are also fly-by-wire. Some like the retired F-117 were inherently unstable and couldn't be flown by a mere human. The F-35 has 'relaxed stability' so it probably is in the category.

F1 cars do not have driver assist

My car has traction and stability control and thankfully I can turn them off. They're fine 99% of the time but if you get playful, particularly on dirt, you can find yourself sitting dead in the water. They really don't like drifting through a turn. (classic drift, not the modern art form)

Indeed. The only thing where women are at a natural disadvantage is strength, but power steering and brakes take care of that.

They are perfectly capable of handling the G, and equally as good at reflexes - possibly better - and race craft.

No. It was run down because no one was prepared to pay for its upkeep. Russia was such a reliable supplier of gas to the EU and we could buy it cheaper from Qatar than by extracting from the North Sea. They never imagined that supply security could ever be important again.

Experts warned of the short sightedness at the time but were ignored.

It needed real money spent on it to bring it back online and private enterprise wasn't prepared to do that.

Same sort of logic that means now we are out of the EU brown turds float in our rivers and bathing beaches. Raw sewage discharges are massively up due to the same investment strategy in creaking Victoria sewers. Profits are everything - who cares if a few swimmers get tummy bugs.

Again privatising de facto monopolies like water utilities is to blame.

Centrica were not prepared to fund the Rough storage facility on their own and the government didn't see it as an important strategic asset. They could not have been more wrong.

When the shit hit the fan we had no choice but to pay through the nose to keep the lights on. Buying bulk gas on the spot market is insane!

ABS and traction control no, but power steering and brakes I think they do. Brake by wire is essential with the energy recovery systems on the rear axle

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What are you on about?

What are you on about?

Adding power to a generator that is phase locked simply results in it pushing harder against the grid loads, and so the rotor will advance phase by enough to absorb the extra power.

Nothing to do with field coils or power factor.

Precisely. There was only money in investing in subsidised guaranteed market renewables., The fact that they simply couldn't do the job they were supposed to was *someone else's* problem.

In fact I suspect the power companies were only too eager to see a massive electricity blackout to rub the politicians noises in their won shit.

That doesn't explain why it was more profitable to export LNG to Europe than use it ourselves.

I am sorry, but brown turds have always been floating in our rivers and on our beaches while we were IN the EU.

Its something to do with the increasse in shit from EU immigrants.

And all these monopolies and nationalised utilities ran so well with near zero investment for decades and with a couldn't care less attitude to customers.

We have the LNG tanker facilities to accept bulk Qatari oil. Europe relied heavily on the Russian gas pipeline - until it was cut off. They are still building LNG handling facilities right now (same as the UK is desperately trying to add more gas storage to our systems).

Result everyone trying to buy what available LNG there is. We can only store trivial amounts of LNG compared to our requirements we had to offload it to European storage facilities (and had the recent winter been really cold buy it back at usurious spot market prices).

No you aren't. As a UK domestic user your electricity is capped at about 35p/KwH, as is everyone elses, at massive cost to future taxpayers who will be paying off the escalating debt that Lettuce and Kwackers dumped on everyone .

Using 1987 as 100, the ONS says Feb 1993 RPI was 139 while Feb 2023 is 365. Therefore 5p in feb 1993 is now 13.13p, so actual increase to the current *capped* rate is just under

3x, but without the subsidized cap is higher.

That's because we make use of the storage facilities over in the EU.

They would supply gas and electricity back to us.

ROFL. Raw untreated sewage discharges into the sea were far worse before privatisation. In those days piping it out to sea without even basic filtration was how the water companies did it. There have been massive investments to reduce or eliminate this, like the ginormous holding tank bored under the entire length of Brighton and Hove promenade to capture the combined rain+foul drains output during heavy rain. Then it is pumped along to the coast towards Newhaven and treated using modern UV treatment and other stuff.

The water boards were starved of investment after WW2 because successive governments were spending so much money on the NHS, National Coal Board, the docks, British Steel, British Rail, British Leyland, the Electricity Boards, the Aerospace industry and Defence

Because we have an importation and regasification facility in Pembroke (paid for by the Qataries I believe). Germany had no such facility but they have now built their own in record time so are no longer dependent on other countries.