The UK Forecast Calls for Power Blackouts

[@rjones6219]

Some years ago, Miliband as an MP went on a political visit to an African country. The hosts took him to a small village, and he was shown their poverty and how they struggled to survive. He decided to give them a speech on how the UK would improve their lives. He made extravagant promises, on what we would do for energy needs. As he delivered it, the natives started to jump up and down, shouting “umbulla umbulla umbulla”. Encouraged by their enthusiastic reception to his claims, he made even more outrageous promises, and they danced ever faster and shouting even louder “umbulla umbulla umbulla”. And he continued, as did the natives. When he’d finished he commented to the chief of the village, that his promises had gone down well, to which the chief beamed. The chief then asked if he would like to see the village’s prize bull, and of course Miliband accepted. When they got to the field where the bull was kept, he saw it was on the far side, and that they’d have to walk across. “Is it OK to walk in the field?” he asked “Yes” replied the chief “but be careful, not to tread in the umbulla”.

[@littleoleking3952]

😂Very good.

[@marcowilliams3707]

😂

[@mikecass8306]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@suzann2531]

Just listened to President Trump speech at Davos he’s not putting up with all this climate business. What a leader. What experience does Miliband have regarding this energy business is going to bankrupt us all. Thanks Paul for sharing this information.

[@ClimateRealism]

Miliband has no experience or training whatsoever.

[@angelahayes24]

He will know as much as hunter biden

[@rjones6219]

Some while ago, I did a calculation on battery storage. There is a battery storage plant just outside Hull, it's about the size of 2- 3 football pitches, it's been calculated that it could provide 1% of demand for four minutes. Based on that figure, a battery farm, sufficient to provide for seven days, would be around the size of Greater Manchester.

[@ClimateRealism]

There is simply no storage solution that can back up renewables at any scale at all.

[@freeforester1717]

Yep. See Simon P Michaux, 'why there won't be enough energy for everyone, and Mark P Mills 'There is no energy transition' 👍🏻 Last two days wind supplied 0.1% of our energy requirement in the U.K., solar did 0%. Why waste money on unreliable sources when there is NO need to do so? Mankind accounts for a mere 18 of the 425 ppm carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. More carbon dioxide would be beneficial, not detrimental.

[@RalphEllis]

Yes, I made it the size of Greater London. And the cost will be £11,500 billion. Ralph

[@NewWorldHoarder]

Imagine if it caught fire.

[@karenbarker9474]

Ed Miliband is putting all our lives in danger. He needs to go as soon as possible! Trump is leading the way!

[@pda49184]

Thank you Paul for all your time and hard work exposing this 'fraud' . There's no doubt in my mind that Ed Miliband is definitely the most dangerous ideological politician I have ever known. (followed closely by Tony Blair).

[@karenbarker9474]

This is why they want everyone on smart meters. They can ration the energy. Thank you for all you do to educate people in this👏

[@littleoleking3952]

Just incredible work again, Paul. Thank you so much.

[@steverichards4001]

We need to do something about this it will ruin our country 😢

[@barryfoster453]

Nope. There are SO many morons in this country that they need (we need) for this country to fall onto its knees so that these morons finally grasp that we cannot go on voting in Labour and Conservative. I'm serious. I talk to people, they will STILL vote for one or the other despite where this country has descended to. So we actually need to have blackouts, to have mass attacks (terrible thing to state, but they will finally galvanise people), to have a ruined economy. ALL of those are on their way.

[@SepticWhelk]

That IS the plan sheepys .

[@Dianej1951]

Did you say they "will" ruin?

[@johnroskruge2752]

Thank you for all your hard work.

[@davidsutcliffe1828]

Great job Paul

[@karenhayes4082]

well done and thank you for keep plugging away about this energy mega problem and the total incompetence of the people 'in charge'

[@Caz-p8c]

Well I’ve always thought that they are all incompetent, I’ve already got candles, touches that I can’t charge up, camping gas stove,’s, and cans of gas, gas fire and more cans of gas, battery charging bank for mobiles and iPad, trying to save enough money for a bigger power bank, to hopefully keep fridge/ freezer ok while on blackouts. Hope I can get the money together soon.

[@grahamgrierson8094]

Be careful with those camping gas stoves and heaters indoors. Apparently, one of the biggest causes of death during power cuts in America is carbon monoxide poisoning.

[@Caz-p8c]

@ I will do, I’ve got 2 carbon monoxide alarms in the bungalow, I’m also looking into the callor gas fires, it’s just if I can get them, before the blackouts, but I’m also hoping there’s a miracle and the Labour government fall apart, and another election has to be called. Or maybe they get a master class off of President Trump, on looking after country first.

[@Sjb-on5xt]

Blackouts would be just the thing to bring about the collapse of the Labour government. Bring it on.

[@caterthun4853]

But.. looking at other parties none have any policy

[@MichaelLeBlanc-p4f]

Been living 'off-grid' for two years, relying on solar. Energy saved to a battery (Eco Flow). 1st 'battery' ($2,300) lasted best part of a year & then died without warning. Thats when I read the 'fine print' and discovered the unit was only good for 300 charges. Replaced it with a 'Gel' battery. Have no idea how many charges it is warrented for, but it needs constant attention lest energy falls below 20% and it self distructs. A lot of trouble and expense to keep a small fridge, a few Led lights and Cell phone link operational.

[@australiainfelix7307]

"a small fridge, a few Led lights and Cell phone link" - our green future in a nutshell.

[@angelahayes24]

​@@australiainfelix7307it's sickening,these people are greedy parasites.

[@christineross4155]

Why dont you get a backup diesel generator. Much more robust. More and more businesses will be getting diesel generators as the risk of blackouts increases. I was brought up in West Africa. Wd didn't have one but every home and business that could afford one had one as blackouts were frequent.

[@MichaelLeBlanc-p4f]

@christineross4155 Have a great 'gas' Honda generator. Must use it at least twice a day when cloudy skies negate solar input. Would the more expensive diesel be more efficient in the long run ?

[@sullivanrachael]

@@MichaelLeBlanc-p4fDiesels are more efficient - but the increase in efficiency comes from more complex engineering in the manufacture and consequently in the higher cost

[@rodknipping1578]

Yet again, more great work. Thank you Paul!

[@rikardengblom6448]

Thanks Paul!

[@colinmacdonald5732]

So Milliband says we must cut our dependence on imported gas. Therefore we need to stop drilling for our own gas in the North Sea. Yep folks, he's stopped that. Thing is, North Sea gas doesn't need government subsidies or complicated price mechanisms to go ahead. The government just has to allow it, and the people who do the real work go and get the gas for you.

[@willyb3463]

He is mad, not that long ago some people would've taken him to hospital.

[@kipper2942]

How can these people in charge be so stupid or their just complete corrupt liars, this is total madness

[@Dianej1951]

You can be sure none of them will be cold!!

[@turquoiseowl]

thing is, net zero suppresses economic productivity and requires the government to reach for mass immigration of millions to sustain GDP and avert recession

[@paulhiggins9492]

I’m just building a mud hut as we speak, then I’m going to the tip for a set of pram wheels to build a car, I’m naive but happy, oh and turnips for tea.

[@teltwosheds2972]

Turnips!wow, you're rich 😁

[@MaverickSeventySeven]

Excellent - Thank you!

[@Frebs01]

Expect a lot more bad weather whilst the clouds are seeded for wind, as we got no back up energy. Thanks WEF. Bring back Welsh Coal, Port Talbot Steel Works And Ford MK2 Escorts, well one good thing, MST are reproducing the MK2 👍

[@RalphEllis]

“Other Generation”. Includes the Strategic Reserve. Which is 2 gw of diesel generators, dotted around the country. Ralph

[@ClimateRealism]

Thanks for letting me know.

[@adrianchetwynd1334]

I wondered about that a few years ago when I saw some massive horizontal fuel tanks passing through Lincoln.

[@rayhunt6704]

Paul I know your right the moneys we spent on wind and solar in the past 20 years in my mind should have been spent on Small Modular Rectors SMRs strategically placed around the country this would not only be stable but would increase the average grid efficiency up from its 35% Im not quite as old as you Paul and yes they call me sparky as well as other things (wind and solar is not Green )

[@davepfizer]

First thing is no more EV's. You cannot charge cars that are totally wasteful of our supplies if you are going to end with blackouts.

[@grahamgrierson8094]

I was watching the amount of wind generated power a few days ago when it was down to 1-2Gw, and it looked as though the rest of Europe was also experiencing a Dunkelflaute as the interconnectors were running at less than their normal level. On the subject of gas storage - Centrica are now considering closing the UK's largest storage at Rough due to the millions of pounds it loses per year. Another reason to stock up on candles....

[@Rangyp]

Paul, you explain this so well. I wish more people would follow you. We are being gaslighted.

[@Kergrist]

Politicians who have a history degree & a political one actually believe they are expert engineers. Great Video, thank you Paul👍

[@angelahayes24]

Can everyone share this please it is important.

[@barryfoster453]

No one seems to be talking about the huge demand of AI. I'm in conversation with someone at the Met Office at the moment (on the subject of the failed CO2 global warming hypothesis failure). He thinks there will be LESS CO2 emitted! Now, it's not doing anything, anyway, but this is someone at the sharp end who thinks that fossil fuel emissions will decrease! China is building HUGE numbers of coal fired power stations - some reports say that it's two a week! The coming boom in the US will be from INCREASED fossil fuel use.

[@Bill-n2p]

AI. It has already been noted that it is only as good as the information that it is loaded with.

[@Michael-hm8cs]

@@Bill-n2p Yes, but it requires vast amounts of electricity

[@Michael-hm8cs]

The statistics show, that globally, the use of oil, coal and gas is increasing year on year. See sites like our world in data/statistics.

[@barryfoster453]

@@Michael-hm8cs Indeed, while it's true that the US has seen a dip, not only is this wiped out by increasing emissions from China and India, but the US emissions will begin to rise again due in some part to AI data centres springing up - which consume so much energy that there's talk of power stations being constructed just for them alone. Good...because there's nothing wrong with CO2! During the Cambrian explosion (of life) CO2 was at 7000ppm. It's at 420ppm, now. At 150ppm we all die.

[@acousticabuse6953]

This needs sharing far and wide to open peoples eyes

[@barryfoster453]

Funny, isn't it, Paul? We DO need energy security - it's the only thing Milibrain is right on. BUT...we should have built deep geothermal plants or nuclear plants while we burned all the coal we could lay our hands on. Instead, Alok Sharma blew the coal-fired stations up. Coal is one third cheaper than even gas is. We could have used it to power our way to building real renewable energy plants, not ones that have to be renewed (like turbines and solar panels). The chance has gone, now. With North Sea oil going, we are still reliant on foreign powers.

[@MrChriss000]

The answer is not blowing in Germany.

[@marillionuk]

So, we're essentially swapping Megawatts, Megavolts & Mega amps for Ed Milliwatts, Ed Millivolts & Ed Milli amps then?

[@andrewpickard3230]

Can I ask a Straw poll. Has anybody or know of anybody who have had a blackout in the last week say? I know there are many reasons for such things but there may be blackouts on the quiet. I know there was a blackout in Featherstone which stopped a rugby match. Sorry if I am speaking out of turn but I thought it would be a good idea.

[@grahamgrierson8094]

I seem to be seeing an increasing number of short blackouts happening all over the country, but they are casually explained away as faults at sub stations etc. I'm convinced these are happening more regularly, and am wondering if this being done deliberately to get us used to power cuts.

[@robertarcher8576]

There is a plan published by government which shows how rolling 3 hour blackouts will be implemented around the country. Google will find it for you. Your blackout zone is defined by an alphabetic letter included on your bill. So we can ‘plan’ for it. Enjoy!

[@grahamgrierson8094]

@@robertarcher8576 Yes I know about it thanks. It's called The Electricity Supply Emergency Code and you can find your disconnection schedule from the Disconnection Rota Alpha Identifier on your electricity bill.

[@carbinewilliams9943]

'Battery boxes' in the West Midlands is the 'big talk' recently, with threats of large fields in Greenbelt areas being 'land-grabbed'.

[@ClimateRealism]

They cannot be used as backup for more than minutes.

[@markm-ci6rj]

Isn't imported power really expensive, I seem to recall reading - this was when Fiddles Ferry was being closed - it was around 500% more expensive than producing it using the coal powered station, although I guess that did not include green penelties?

[@ClimateRealism]

It has reached over £5000 a MWh even recently.

[@shockthemonkey7046]

He also neglects to mention the cost of buying wind turbines, installing and plumbing them in, the number of years before there will be an ROI if any. You should Tom Nelson and ask him to invite you on for this one.

[@fredfoto7362]

Very professional, well done.

[@jeffmoore4153]

The UK sitting on a vast coal seams, and we need wind power!

[@lebaggins10]

Great video - well explained. I suspect the last few governments have been massively pushing electric vehicles because they don't want to build battery storgae they want millions of cars with batteries plugged into the grid (that car owners have purchased and maintain) so they can use this as free (to them) additional storage for the grid - Unfortunately EV's are not well liked and targets are a long way off of being achieved.

[@odette8905]

Excellent

[@anthonywilson8998]

This is all very worrying, but as usual no one is bothering ,as normal despite increases in costs,all artificial and unnecessary. Will it take blackouts to get people interested ? We get what we deserve and if the people of this country don’t show any interest we are knackered . I am disappointed in Reform on this. They are concentrating on the next election. It willbe too late by then. They need to stop this madness now. Good videoPaul but millions need to see these to get some traction. Can you send to Farage?

[@freeforester1717]

When considering matters surrounding the current political narratives of the day, we should bear in mind the wise words of past figures of some merit; the American man of letters Henry Brooks Adams observed that 'Practical politics consists in ignoring facts'; Churchill famously noted that 'United wishes and goodwill cannot overcome brute facts; panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice may distort it; but there it is'. Burns was a little more frank: 'Facts are chiels that winna ding, and downa be disputed'. I’d like to see the scientific proof or evidence that man-made carbon dioxide emissions (globally accounting for 18 of the 420 odd parts per million found in the atmosphere) somehow are more injurious to the prospects of the planet wellbeing than the remaining 402ppm of natural origin - carbon dioxide (comprised of one atom carbon and two atoms oxygen) is an ESSENTIAL TO LIFE gas, the steady and slight increase (appx 6ppm per annum) of which has been reckoned to increase crop yields globally, and also helped to ‘green’ the periphery of desert regions globally, as observed by satellite imaging these past six decades. It should also be borne in mind that global manufacturing giant China alone is calculated to have pumped more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere within the last five years than has been produced GLOBALLY since the Industrial Revolution began, (even in 2003 they emitted three times as much as in 2002). This has yet to show up in increased overall carbon dioxide levels however, and nor will it, as this carbon dioxide is simply absorbed by oceanic algae, phytoplankton and land based vegetation. Carbon dioxide only acts as a warming agent to the planet in concentrations between 50-100 parts per million, and this level was achieved without Man's influence some six hundred million years ago; this level thereafter needed to increase by a further 100% to permit all vegetation to barely begin to grow, ie far earlier than the evolution of dinosaurs, etc, by which time levels were orders of magnitude greater than today, ranging between 2000-7000ppm, resulting in a superabundance of vegetation for the herbivores of their day. This warming effort (constituting around 10% of the total, the other 90% is provided by water vapour and clouds, which we are of course neither able to reduce nor even control, much less set a pretend tax or levy upon) keeps the planet some thirty two degrees warmer than it would otherwise be, thus rendering the planet more agreeably habitable than otherwise; were we to double, triple or indeed increase by tenfold - to typical tolerable ‘submarine-level’ concentrations - it would hardly raise the global temperature by a single degree Celsius. Levels of carbon dioxide beyond 100ppm do not have any significant propensity to increase global temperatures, and in any event increased levels are as a consequence of temperature increases, NOT the cause of same. The temperature rise of the early medieval period some 800 years ago is the cause of present day carbon dioxide level increases - steady away at around 6ppm per annum - despite the industrious efforts of China. To spunk billions on such a clown initiative (- trees absorb practically all of our generated CO2 for free) is indicative of the lunacy of the calibre of idiots running the show. Perhaps Red Ed Milliband can advise us of his intended explanation of quite how the monies allocated are going to make the slightest difference to the incoming cyclical energy levels of the Sun, which are the true cause of the temperature fluctuations of the planet; a perfect correlation between the monthly mean sunspot number and the mean seasonal temperature variation clearly demonstrates that solar activity is the principal driver of global warming/cooling, depending on solar activity levels - in short, it's the Sun, not us. Well over one thousand scientific, peer-reviewed papers have been produced demonstrating the link between Earth’s climate (which produces no heat to speak of sufficient to drive its own climate) and the Sun - our SOLE meaningful means of warming the planet. It has furthermore been comprehensively proven by the two Professors, Dr. William Happer- chief Scientific advisor to three US presidents - and Willem Van Wijngaarden, both at Princeton, USA that carbon dioxide does not and indeed cannot warm the planet in the way that the scammers and charlatans would have us "believe", and yet despite ALL this, rather than ‘looking up’ and finding out basic facts for ourselves, a global industry has been created around this foolish notion; they persist with the myth, trusting in the supposition that no one else was paying much attention to physics and chemistry in school… Shakespeare wrote, ‘What a terrible era, in which idiots govern the blind’..

[@keithnorman4525]

Has anyone ever run the figures for how much Miliband had cost the British People in his Green Project.

[@paulslater9061]

How can imports be called a plan it's a risk

[@spex357]

My Teachers in 1973 warned us about Agenda 2030, "all of you will be affected by it", his face scanned the room, "well apart from Henry maybe". Henry suffered from epilepsy fits, daily.

[@MrSuperdw]

Keep going Paul

[@markm-ci6rj]

The gas storage facility needed replacing I believe, although isn't it partly reopen?

[@grahamgrierson8094]

@@markm-ci6rj If you mean the depleted Rough gas field, that reopened a few years ago as a gas storage facility, but owners Centrica are now talking of closing it due to the millions of pounds a year it costs to run.

[@metalworker007]

Perhaps they should be pumping gas underground rather than co2 - they have been taking down gasometers for years

[@caterthun4853]

Look at Tony Seba on the energy change to less fossil fuel use. As solar and wind is the cheapest. The country needs to ensure we have back up. Need nuclear and energy storage as hydrogen. We have developed tidal turbine that we should be manufacturing and exporting.. Will be a bumpy road and a lot of na sayers as we move towards net zero..

[@ClimateRealism]

No it is not cheaper. Currently gas £52 per MWh renewable about £76 to about £200 permMW hour. The only back up is gas and that has ti be a 100% back up so you build another system alongside plus the fact tyenextra costs of the infrastructure etc not counted. Watch my video on tidal costing about £250 per MWh. It is an absurd solution that cannot come down a lot in price and still needs the gas backup. Net Zero is nonsense . We need more CO2 not less.

[@moyamacgregor6739]

thank you Paul, i trust your calculations, and intuitively have faith in your professional knowledge, experience and basic good sense of a human being. a man practising creation. contrary to those operating for the other club, soon to be abolished. phoenix to arise within the near future. Trump changes everything in this area, for this time. with great appreciation for all you do Paul, 🔑.

[@iareid8255]

We had a letter from our local area network operator stating that there is a plan to have rotating power cuts of three hours or so duration in the event of a shortage of generating power. It is incredible that such a plan exists and given those in authority always play down any possible problem means the situation is serious. With such a large and complicated system as the national grid it is impossible to forecast when a fault or faults can occur. When faults occur at times of grid stress it's in the lap of the gods as to the effect. That NESO are disputing how much spare capacity they had recently is something that does not engender any confidence. The loss of conventional generation cpacitty and its inherrent inertia for stability of frequency makes the effect of faults more likely to be widespread. NESO and the government are playing a dangerous game.

[@ClimateRealism]

Spot on. I have a 5.5KW gene as backup because of it.

[@UnofficialName]

Same. Blackouts are coming. 100%. I've bought multiple oil lanterns and put them around the house.

[@JonathanEyre]

The bad, dare I say it, insane government we have in Labour is entirely explainable and this phenomenon will continue until we change how Gov’t are formed. The labour party has been out of Gov’t for a decade and half. During that time anyone previously in the cabinet role has long since retired or demoted themselves. This means that the current cabinet is staffed by a bunch of people who have a zero experience running an economy let alone an entire country. How do they get their positions? Well no one knows but you can imagine its based on who you know. Rachel Reeves and her CV debacle prove this. A clerk is promoted to Chancellor of the exchequer because she once had a minor position in a bank. Imagine creating a new trillion dollar company and recruiting the board by assigning people because you knew them. No recruitment, no interviews, no experience. How well do you think that company would fare? Simply extrapolate that scenario to the UK. We are being run by a bunch of unqualified and inexperienced clowns whose only achievement was to talk a good talk at the county level and get elected! I say that for new governments, we need a recruitment process that examines CVs, has extensive interviews with captains of industry and past, well qualified and respected politicians, manning the interview board

[@MaverickSeventySeven]

Regarding the absurd demand to "reduce" CO2 outputs - CO2 represents 0.04% of the atmosphere - Mankind's estimated contribution has risen from 0.3% to 0.4% over a hundred years, England's contribution is estimated to be 0.4% - meaning - England's contribution is 0.4% of that 0.4% of that 0.04%!!!!???? GO FIGURE THE DECEPTION!

[@jamesthomas7928]

I am off grid entirely using solar panels, inverters and Lithium batteries and it all works perfectly. HOWEVER I live in the Caribbean where the sun shines powerfully and regularly and rainfall is clean and relatively plentiful. THE UK WILL NEVER HAVE THESE BENEFITS and so Miliband needs dragging out of his office and dumped in the trash because what he is doing cannot work in GB

[@julianhill4538]

🔇🔈🔉🔊

[@vincentcausey8498]

Ed Milliband is either an electrical engineering genius greater even than Nikolai Tesla, or we are all doomed.

[@carbinewilliams9943]

Where is all of the grass going?

[@chrishanslip6443]

The uk has loads and loads of gas, 300 years worth, the uk has loads and loads of oil, 150 years worth, the uk has loads and loads of coal, 500 years worth of it, let's just drill baby drill, and sack red Edd.

[@thedogsdiddies8421]

For such a wet climate I can't understand the life of me why we are not installing small hydro. It's reliable, constant and stable for probably 10 months of the year, yet we have nearly any! Look back on old maps and you can see the number of mills we used to have. A lot of the old mill sites are still visable, why not restore these sites but with modern technology?

[@ClimateRealism]

It is not viable. You need height and a quantity of water plus the means to transfer the energy. All the good sources for it are already used and contribute very little.

[@mfr58]

UK gov has already published a set of regional power rationing schedules, of escalating severity for worsening scenarios. It's called "The Electricity Supply Emergency Code". Yes, the storage story is smoke and mirrors, the numbers just don't add up as you show. It's all Miliology....

[@eskababe]

Actors spewing nonsense

[@HandleMitCare]

Only 8 more days. February is Flog an idiot month. Do your part.