Like what you're saying and I'm your side in this discussion, but any chance you could let us know the source of that? It just might go some way to convincing more people...
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I cannot imagine electricity usage going down over Covid.
I can - think about all those closed factories and so on. Not saying I know it did though, which is why I was asking for the source of the figures.
Sachakins
The most wasted of days is one without woodwork
https://www.enerdata.net/estore/energy-market/united-kingdom/
Power Consumption
In 2023, electricity consumption declined by 3.3% to 267 TWh, after a 4.5% decrease in 2022. In 2021, it rebounded by 1.2% after a 5.2% drop in 2020. Between 2005 and 2019, electricity consumption declined on average by 1.2%/year. In 2023, electricity consumption was 25% below its peak level in 2005.
Households are the main electricity consumers (35%), followed by services (29%) and industry (29%).
Not so, the single handedly biggest cause of congestion on motorways is the miss conception that there are slow and fast lanes instead of the middle and outside lanes being for overtaking.
In the UK we could take a lesson from most of those who drive in Europe, the lane discipline is much better on French and German motorways.
AJB Temple
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I think you might find that traffic density is a factor. France is more than double the area of the UK and has about 38 million vehicles. The UK at less than half the size in land area and has around 34m vehicles. Suggests different density. We live part of the time in Germany and although I agree lane discipline is better, you do have that guy in a Mercedes coming up behind you at 155mph .....
niemeyjt
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Now Volvo has abandoned plans for all vehicles to be electric by 2030.
woodieallen
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6 - How a gearbox works
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Sorry aren’t you agreeing with me?
I don’t see where are views differ.
so there was a covid bump?
Sachakins
The most wasted of days is one without woodwork
Don't know, but interesting observation.
The fact that you think there is a slow lane and a fast lane and not an inside lane and two overtaking lanes.
‘fast’ or ‘slow’ is relative.
Blackswanwood
Still Learning
I doubt that and there’s a stat in a post earlier that shows how the UK’s electricity consumption has fallen. Are you basing your theory on any hard facts?
You do seem to have a pessimistic outlook on everything.
That, and it's more likely that someone will 'pull a bird', as they used to say the 60s, in a sports car than and SUV.
I wonder if that may be partly down to advances in lighting technology.? Most of my lighting is now LED of some sort, which uses substantially less electricity, and they have come on in leaps and bounds in the last 20 years. I needed some 100w incandescent for a light bulb limiter I made, and it was really hard sourcing them.
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Not about total consumption, it's about peak loads and the huge shifts in consumption patterns. Having a small EV as a second car and an interest in data, the car's consumption is off the charts compared to all else, despite working from home, a large garden office/gym and an increasing predilection for large woodworking machinery. The only thing that uses nearly as much power as charging the car is charging the storage - which is another shift in consumption times.
Rhossydd
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To a small part and all electrical kit has become more efficient over the years.
However a large part of this drop in demand from the grid must come from the steadily increasing amount of PV solar generation across domestic and commercial premises, dropping demand and sometime even becoming negative demand to the grid.
Terrytpot
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The majority of motorways have more than two lanes available to use which surely leaves a lane free for cars who can legally exceed 60mph to get past…compare that to hgv’s who are not allowed in the extreme right hand lane (unless it’s a 2 lane motorway) and as such only have a choice of sitting in the inside lane (which a lot of the time I prefer as quite often it moves quicker) or trying to pull out and overtake in a lane full of cars who have no intention of pulling back in as they don’t want to use the “slow lane” and don’t want their visibility impaired by trucks and who most of the time seem perfectly happy to match the speed of the vehicle they should be overtaking even though it’s travelling substantially slower than the posted speed limit and there are no obstructions forward of them preventing them from overtaking and pulling back in…
Ps: no alienation taken
Sachakins
The most wasted of days is one without woodwork
Yes advances in customers using more efficient devices has certainly helped.
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