It’s summer –  therefore our ‘solar farms suffer’ …

 

Heat does terrible things to the human brain, especially, it would seem, to those sweltering in the newsrooms of the Westminster MSM. Trawling through the jungle that is the MSM, I’ve picked up a  jaw-dropping headline which is well worth recording ‘for posterity’. Firstly, yon obligatory front-pages- compilation: “Newspaper headlines: ‘Boris and Rishi at war’ and ‘Partygate report due’” (link).

For giggles, scroll down to check out The Star where we’re told that the Pope hushed up the first UFO crash. Mind you, that was in 1930, so if there are aliens amongst us they must be in their dotage now. Wait: would they have grandchildren? 

And so to the most hilarious headline I’ve seen in a very long time. It’s in the DT (my emphasis): 

“Britain fires up coal plant as solar panels suffer in hot weather – Rush to turn on air conditioning during heatwave causes spike in demand for electricity” (paywalled link)

Oh my giddy aunt! I laughed so much the resident collie came to check if I was ok. So in the ‘heat of summer’ coal plants have been taken out of mothballs … because solar panels are ‘suffering’ – from too much sun … ! Isn’t that their whole point, to be exposed to the bright sun, to collect the hot sunlight? And now they ‘suffer’ when it’s ‘too hot’? Really? Is that why there are no huge solar farms in the Sahara? 

And then there are the bird shredders … well, I learned a new word when I scrolled further down in the report and read this:

“Supply was also lower because of depressed wind speeds, which hit turbine output, and some gas power plants being shut for maintenance.” (paywalled link)

Blimey – someone break out the antidepressants for the poor, suffering wind! No, don’t ask why or who does this ‘suppression’! It’s probably us by not doing everything we can to ‘save the planet’. It’s irrelevant that we pay for this crap with home energy bills which are still astronomical. We’re surreptitiously being blamed again for this situation: “we” are using more electricity by ‘switching on air conditioning’.

Since our homes usually don’t have air conditioning, I wonder if this is the curse of making people stop WFH and go back to their hot offices. Perhaps it’s not so much offices and homes having switched on air-conditioning which they don’t have but the ever growing server parks needing cooling as our economy is more and more relying on ‘teh interwebz’ to do business. 

Speaking of server parks, the interwebz and computers: do we not have a Met Office running supercomputers? Are there not other weather forecast services running supercomputers? Aren’t they all providing long-term forecasts to businesses, for ‘a price’? Did they not see this heatwave coming, warning e.g. gas power stations not to start doing maintenance just now because more electricity would be needed?

Who knows! We do know that the Met Office loves to hand out ‘warnings’. They did warn of ‘rain’ for sunny Kairdiff on Sunday – rain is a killer, ok? – and of thunderstorms which certainly didn’t materialise in my location. So why those blanket warnings? Is it because they’re also into fear mongering, trying to keep us inside our hovels?

Be that as it may – it did come pouring down yesterday, in the SE, as the DM duly reported, the usual videos of cars driving through water included:

“Moment water pours from Waitrose ceiling before it collapses in front of shocked shoppers as Britain is battered by torrential rain, hail and thunder with roads left underwater and homes left without power” (link)

Blimey – this has never happened before …: London is drowning …! That’s what happens when horrid politicians demand innocent people like civil serpents come back to work in their offices, needing air conditioning just when solar panels don’t work “because: heat!” as localised thunderstorms develop over hot inner cities. 

So far I’ve not read anything yet, telling us plebs that we simply ought to dress lightly, keep curtains closed so the sun doesn’t heat up our homes and refrain from opening our fridge doors all the time. After all, we do need ‘guidance’, we need to be told how to save energy, just as we were told to do during the winter. 

Given the entertaining comment posts accompanying those articles,  it seems that more and more people are seeing right through the Net Zero crap. How can we ‘save the planet’, after all, when the remedies don’t work because they either ‘suffer’ or are ‘depressed’ and we need to go back to ‘dirty coal’? And they want people to switch over to EVs when during the height of ‘solar input’, commonly known as ‘summer’, there’s not enough electricity? Surely, they’re ‘aving a larf!

I leave you with the latest in the “Rishi & BoJo” war saga. Johnson’s sidekick, Ms Nadine Dorries, wrote a stomach turning weepy for the DM, about how ‘sinister forces’ stopped her, ‘a girl born into poverty’, from getting into the Lords. If you must, you can read it here. I’m only bringing it up because, right at the end of this elaborate, Ms D. names these ’sinister forces’. It’s  Sunak’s aide and friend, James Forsyth, editor of the Speccie. Scroll all the way down for her ‘revelation’.

However, I am reminded of the campaign to get rid of Johnson’s aide Dominic Cummings, after which BJ’s downfall was guaranteed. Are there other ‘sinister forces’ now trying to do the same for Sunak, by trying to get rid of Forsyth? Intriguing, innit!

That’s all I have for today. I’m puzzled by this ‘too hot to work’ attitude, from people to solar panels. Isn’t it precisely this warm, sunny weather which pale Brits seek to soak up, on our beaches or during their summer holidays? If Spain or Greece ain’t too hot for Brits – why is Britain? Have a lovely day!



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