2026-10-10
If Trump can solve the diesel shortage, can he solve the fading reliability of our electrical supply?
Why is it imperilled? Are we just scare-mongering? Heaven knows we have had enough scare-mongering in recent years.
But if as we must we give credence to our government's obsession of "saving the planet" heedless of the costs and engineering implications, then Ed Miliband's tenure as Energy Tsar will have done more than enough damage to the reliability of our power supplies already, and who knows what further idiocy his replacement has in store for us?
"Each machine that disconnects hands its load to whatever is left. If the survivors are near their limits, they trip too"
Just in case we don't understand exactly why the grid is imperilled, Richard Lyon writing for the Daily Sceptic explains the technicalities in terms that we can all understand.
