About that green energy - Britain's gas shortage
One of the key principles in engineering is that you do not deploy a new and untested technology and remove the old and mature technology. You develop and test the new technology in isolation and only switch over when it has proven to be mature and tested.
From
Yahoo/Reuters:
Britain faces gas supply crisis as storage runs dry
Britain is grappling with a potential gas supply crisis as a late blast of winter depletes stored reserves, coal power plants close and pending maintenance in Norway threatens to further squeeze supply.
The country risks running out of stored gas by April 8 based on the fall in its reserves seen since the cold hit at the beginning of March, Reuters calculations show.
Gas storage sites have been depleted by 90 percent, with the equivalent of less than two days' consumption remaining, data from Gas Infrastructure Europe shows.
If the cold persists, as is forecast, the UK may need to cut gas supplies to some big industrial customers, as it did in 2010 at a time of severe gas shortages.
Not mentioned in the article is that the elderly and poor will be unable to afford the high prices and will freeze to death. This is happening while England is shutting down coal mines because they are not as "green" as some people like... Morons.
Posted by DaveH at March 21, 2013 12:31 PM