Though I guess that will be a juicy target for Russia if either of us misbehave.

it will. Good to get some use for your excess wind generation. I'm hoping we'll have more of that here soon

Yes, I love these integration projects. They’re sorely needed in the transition to renewables.

and hopefully battery storage will get even more competitive with gas https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/giant-batteries-drain-economics-gas-power-plants-2023-11-21/

if you want to see what is happening with the interconnector: https://grid.iamkate.com/

That’s pretty cool. You can see that the transfers from Denmark went from nothing to something.

I presume the transfers can work both ways

though I think Denmark more regularly overproduces more than the UK does

(tho it would be good to not curtail our wind power as often as we do. We really do need more storage)

Yes, we sometimes pay negative prices for electricity when it’s very windy.

i.e. we receive money

better to have more stable prices, though I guess this will only affect western Denmark since the east is connected to Sweden.

the negative prices I'm OK with, but sometimes the wind power just gets turned off as we are making too much. You'll see it as curtailment sometimes on the windfarms on here: https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com/#5.91/58.055/-3.159

tho of course I can't find an example today 😄

usually it happens overnight when it is windy

and this will be on top of negative pricing

> but sometimes the wind power just gets turned off as we are making too much. This also used to happen a lot before we were properly connected to Germany and Sweden.

I'm guessing they'll always have some demand for you

another bit of gas that they can turn off

Sweden is pretty amazing for a producer as volatile as Denmark since they are mostly hydro and nuclear power

but only the eastern half is connected with Sweden, the western part is on the European grid.

(and now the UK)

hydro is good (quick following power). Nuclear is usually pretty slow to turn up and down, so not always great with wind as a source

nuclear can be good base power tho. It is really expensive across its life and I'm not sure the economics are going to stand up that much longer. Gas is having the same problem.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/giant-batteries-drain-economics-gas-power-plants-2023-11-21/

I wish we had invested in nuclear rather than gas, though

from a CO2 pov, yeah

(not great on water or waste)

Denmark helped birthed the anti-nuclear, environmentalist movement and we shelved our research in advanced nuclear physics

Copenhagen was one of the primary research locations for nuclear physics, but no one remembers that today

my bets atm are on wind, solar, hydro, pumped hydro storage, and battery storage. The economics there seem to be really favourable

yeah, I agree. Still, I wish we hadn’t wasted the past 50 years on not building nuclear power plants

and biomass

for base load

as an addition to your list

I think 25-50 years ago was the right time to build nuclear. I'm not sure they make economic sense any more

biomass is tricky. It could be good, but often ends up competing with food (switchgrass) or contributes to deforestation (Drax in the UK is an example of that) or the fuel used to move the biomass from one place to another ends up being carbon intensive (shipping wood from the US to burn in the UK)

so I just think it needs to be regulated well

As a local source of power, of course

converting excess electricity production into hydrogen (green hydrogen rather than stuff made with fossil fuels) might be a good replacement for gas turbines to fill in power gaps, but I've not seen any good write ups on that yet

https://envirotecmagazine.com/2018/04/17/channel-4-dispatches-seemingly-uncovers-reckless-deforestation-being-used-to-feed-drax/

damn

our biomass is mostly waste

I'd like to see more tidal as that is predictable

yeah, biomass from waste is good (tho you need to be careful about the local emissions causing problems)

anaerobic digesters to create methane to burn in gas turbines are good as well

(the power of 💩 )

😛

I really need to write those notebooks to analyse all of this data. Esp now that I have a weather station, heat pump, and solar giving me lots of hyperlocal data.

apart from anything I need to see if I should invest in another battery and force it to charge at particular times

https://github.com/kuhumcst/dk5/blob/master/src/dk/cst/dk5.clj Really satisfied with how simple it turned out (I’m scraping the Danish equivalent of the Dewey Decimal System).

Emacs of course : https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Dired.html 😉

I should have thought of my audience 😄

... works well with things like tramp over ssh too, if you want remote access to servers and the like 😉

I'm a simple man, I see dired I I do have some fond memories of midnight commander from my BE days, not sure how it fares against others today though.

I've gone through a lot of terminal file managers (as I predominately live on the cli), yet I keep on coming back to just cd and mv 🙂

I even used norton commander in my yoof

Mostly these days I use a combination of fzf and bfs mapped to ctrl+t

@U11EL3P9U how come? Are the terminal commanders overkill for your usage?

Or do they cause mistakes or?

I think it's being happy with happy now with fzf and bfs. I can do mv <ctrl+t> up pops fzf, I can fuzzy grep for the file/directory or whatever, choose it, then do it again ctrl+t if I want to move it to another folder.

also, mv and cd are on each machine I regularly ssh to 🙂

I also tend to use the old school unix commands. Partly because I am old, I think.

I use the terminal commands mostly b/c I like to be a short step away from scripting

Wrong thread, @U0525KG62 😄 I assume.

@U11EL3P9U what would typical use of bfs look like to you? I haven't encountered it before, but I'm not satisfied with my current search options, so my curiousity is piqued.

I'm not entirely sure, but fish shell should do that out of the box... The only downside is sometimes annoying, since it's not posix compliant.

Do what, @U052TDWT7? Use bfs?

I used to be worried about being too far removed from bash and other standards, but it hasn't really presented itself as a problem in my developing career yet.

@U0AQ3HP9U nope, fish has a builtin tab completion with search for directory, commands options, etc... which works almost like fzf + bfs, afaik

@U0AQ3HP9U a little screencast I found: https://asciinema.org/a/423239. fzf is used in the video, but it's optional.

Thank you for sharing, looks good 🙂 I'm still in the evaluating phase for Kitty

Do you happen to know the font used? I'd like to swipe that for my terminal, very friendly.

Ah, since it's not a video, I can just inspect the DOM. It's Source Sans Pro, it seems. Nice 🙂