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Dinorwig/c is far from pointless - until the advent of grid batteries it provided a vital service to the grid, "instant" extra power on...

It's not too bad from an efficiency point of view - around 75% roundtrip, the real problem is a shortage of sites. You need two large...

There's two separate issues here. One is a lack of transmission capacity to get electricity from a generator to demand elsewhere in the...

Really easy one today, think it must have been my quickest ever Strands #308 “Cold snap” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵

Suspect that's just people expecting everything to be like Nectaron or Riwaka and being disappointed when they're not. I've not...

UK is adding over 1000 per month, of which a bit over half are >8kW. More relevant is that all existing chargers over 50kW now have to...

The US is way behind the rest of the world though. Norway is at 90% of new cars being electric. The world's biggest car market is China...

Even current technology is good enough for people with ordinary bladders and rate-of-tiredness, and there are already cars on sale that...

Not often I get the Spangram first, but it made a nice "pocket" for the first blue answer and pretty easy after that. Connections was a...

Luckier guess - down to 4 after line 1 and got lucky Wordle 1,290 2/6 🟩⬜🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle 1,281 5/6 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FFS

A rather obscure Spangram that wasn't so much help, but an easy answer top left made it obvious where we were going : Strands #293...

And we all want to drive a Ferrari and cuddle up to Margot Robbie at night. Look at it the other way, the fact that the current state...

Horrible topic today, but an easy Spangram which constrains the board so even not knowing the topic it's fairly easy to find words that...

Not sure I'm convinced by that recipe. OCH is one of the best supermarket beers, despite coming from Greene King, but it's an oddity...