Posts by YetAnotherAnonymousCoward! 3 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2014
I think the way this will play out is (1) MP vote for it and we go for it.
...or (2) MPs don't vote then we go to 2nd Referendum, and stay back in Europe. May can then tell ERG that look all your talking about amazing deals with Europe - well this is best you can get and shut up for a generation now.
Ignoring the political shenanigans for a moment. Can we not just use the same spectrum as Galileo but use different encryption for the military aspect? We were part of the Galileo approach and you can argue the spectrum is as much ours as EUs.
Admittedly, the EU would get an extra 24ish satellites to boost it's coverage for free, but our military will not be dependent on the wider Galileo EU encrypted signal in case of war. We can then use the same design as we have at the moment...
I like "Newton" as a name if we end up with a GPS.
Not sure why the government doesn't invest into strategic power storage. Create more energy storage for extra renewable power when it is not needed - either local to generation source or somewhere else via the grid. Is it that hard to store wind/wave/other excess using compressed air/creating hydrogen (then burn)/pumping water up to a high reservoir and use this at peak demand/when renewable power are not available? Is the efficiency loss that much in each scenario to not make this cost effective?
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