Thing One:
From 2007 – 2011 Jill was Director of the Centre for Policy Studies, the independent centre-right think tank.
(From the bio on her own website)
Translation to plain English: Jill Kirby is another true believer in Free Market Conservatism in the Liz Truss vein who has suckled at the teat of the incestuous nest of pro-fossil fuckery in Tufton Street that is funded in large part by the various Koch foundations.
Thing Two: you have to love a middle class columnist telling the working class how to be patriotic.
Jill Kirby can go suck the gas right out of the pipe.
The country has been moving towards EVs and Heat Pumps for years. If the grid is at risk then it’s down to the short sightedness of government and the energy firms who have prioritised filling their own pockets rather than investing in the infrastructure.
I replaced a gas boiler with a heat pump and cost went from ~3 AUD /day to less than 1 AUD/day. With the government subsidy it’s a no-brainer financially. Especially if you already have solar.
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I think you might be lost, this is okmatewanker, not gdaycuntcunt.
Pfft, spoken like a true *checks notes* …neo-Maoist lawfare guerrilla?
I think there’s some kind of random phrase generator at work because that is nonsense in more ways than two.
Correct term is Brownouts, Jill. It’s when the power draw exceeds capacity and some areas can get power while others can’t. Videos games taught me that one Jill. Had to decide who got power in Mojave, Jill.
Technically, what you described is a rolling blackout. A blackout is when power is totally lost. A brownout is when the voltage sags below the minimum specs.
The power grid will initiate rolling blackouts rather than let the whole grid brown out. Brownouts can actually be a lot worse than blackouts. A lot of equipment will try and compensate and so make the problem worse, as well as cause whole new problems.
On a grid level, brownouts will also cause the frequency to drop. This can cause phase differences, and so cause equipment to blow up (or rather shut down, so it doesn’t blow up!)
I never did like that “real americans”, “true british patriots” sort of line. A little self-aggrandizing and self-congratulatory. (Also it insinuates that national identity and authenticity thereof matter in a way that they don’t)
Patriotism and nationalism are infantile disorders. “I’m better than you because I was born somewhere”. Fuckin delusional
