There is a Lidl opening near me, I’m bursting with energy to use it instead of Sainsburys if they don’t have AI cameras. It feels like going to prison shopping at Sainsburys now

Primary energy includes everything: oil used for cars, coal used for steel production. The article is only about electricity and the comment was about wind power making up the majority, which it is very close to doing.

That’s primary energy consumption, you want to look at electricity generation:

I see this argument a lot, but are you sure? Let’s assume the cables are using 2.5mm^2 which is around 1950’s installation “standards”, in the worst case that’s 13A derated. Is that not enough for 800W of power? Now, I’m not saying that a standard 3-pin plug couldn’t cause fire issues, or a bad connection, but that’s true for any 3-pin plug with an 800W load. And this completely bypasses the RCD issue because even 800*2 W would still not be enough to cause any fire issues.

I’d be more worried about the plug being used, rather than the current situation.

I have been arguing with my local council planning department to install external window shutters for years. Unfortunately installing them requires paying for planning permission, which requires an architect. It’s absolutely crazy

Unfortunately they have even killed being able to just encrypt data. Because of the key disclosure law the police can request the password/key for any data in your possession regardless of whether it is random data or not. If you can’t, you go to jail. Literally everyone is a criminal.

Not even China or Russia have this type of authoritarian control over communication.