Given that 1) Electricity price is set by gas almost all the time in the UK 2) The price of electricity varies a lot during any given day. Does that imply that the price of gas must vary similarly during each day? AFAICT gas prices do not change much during a day. Help!

Wind curtailment and gas turn-up costs in 2025 are up ~50% compared to this time last year

An Iranian man left this comment on my YouTube channel. It's the single best explanation I've ever heard on the future of #Iran 👇 As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political—it's existential. We are trapped between two collapsing structures: one

Not a War, a Special Military Operation.

Thank you Donald, by declaring War on Iran, you have put anyone seen as a US ally at risk. Not least because you have made it very clear that you will not provide military support for anyone other than Israel. You tore up the nuclear agreement with Iran, tore up NATO, what next

Has Trump just initiated a war against Iran?

A fair criticism is that I'm predicting an impending train wreck but not offering much other that a short list of problems with the current approach. For solutions you will have to look elsewhere. So who do I have on my reading list? Heres one

Bring back the Bulk Supply Tarrif.

Spark ratio has been high in the UK for decades, long before RE became the next great thing. We can reduce it via general taxation but not enough to prevent continued loss of remaining industry. If we want new industry (AI) then industrial energy will have to be subsidised.

Bills are only going up not least because our gas fleet is going to need replacing soon. Lets hope we don't fund those with CfDs.

Those turbines are expensive, funding them via CfD may have been a good idea in the past but it is a huge market distorting approach when we have a large wind fleet like now. The only sensible way forward is for the gov to own them.

So I am not a fan of UK Net Zero.. The 80-20 rule will apply, 80% of the benefit will be from 20% of the money. The last 20% will be hideously expensive. We do have to burn less stuff, and that likely means wind turbines and increasing energy bills.

https://t.co/yuTDpGPMGx. Some history on energy pricing in the past. Some negative comments on the current path.

Gas could be free and the UK would still have expensive retail electricity.

Gas setting the wholesale price of electricity most of the time in the UK does not explain the high cost of electricity in the UK. I do not understand why the lie of blaming gas for the UKs high retail electricity cost persists.

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this.

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Charlie Munger is right. How do we incentivise behaviour that benefits society as a whole. Selling off natural monopolies to private companies and installing a regulator hasn't worked.

"Why?" The question that we do not ask at anything more than a superficial level accepting the first answer than satisfies our biases, expectations or desires. So why does the UK need its own steel industry? Its not for defence, not history, not efficiency, not profit. Why?

I’m not the most politically correct person in the world, but the number of people who just throw out the R slur just bothers me. It’s traditionally been used to other anybody who doesn’t seem to fit some arbitrary standard of normalcy and to anybody who has a special needs