25 November

Hopefully we get through this fine. I know we personally will, our air conditioners will be running all day to cool the house walls for us when we get home, and won’t use one electron from the grid doing it. We’ll be sending power into the grid, enough to power 2 or 3 other houses, and if the grid goes down, the micro-grid at home kicks in. 4 coal-fired generators are currently out of action, that’s why they’re worried. Our coal stations are falling apart. If we vote for a nuclear fantasy, those stations will need to keep running for years more, well beyond their life. It will cost an absolute fortune to try to stop them collapsing. It’s hard to live in stupid times.