Comments on: UK Energy Part 1: The Winter Outlook http://www.vitaltrivia.co.uk/2005/10/32 Trivial thoughts on vital subjects Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:54:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.1 by: edward Teague http://www.vitaltrivia.co.uk/2005/10/32#comment-54 Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:57:45 +0000 http://www.vitaltrivia.co.uk/2005/10/32#comment-54 Isle of Grain shipments HAVE been diverted. Remember that the US is facing massive shortages , made worse by Katrina and are dominating world markets from Africa and ME at present. Shippers can also make a very quick turn on re-directing cargoes.... not many of them savour the UK winter sunshine. I share your gloomy prognosis, that idiot Johnson was displaying his gleaming false teeth on TV last week and di allow that we might have a 1 in a million cold snap and it would be "tight". I always note that when pols say" we have it just about right" means they haven't a fucking clue. The bottom line is the EU based energy suppliers bottom line, not our cold bottoms and paralysed industry etc., energy security ? ... oh we do have an inter-departmental committee ... who no doubt are kacking their collective pants as we speak. Isle of Grain shipments HAVE been diverted. Remember that the US is facing massive shortages , made worse by Katrina and are dominating world markets from Africa and ME at present. Shippers can also make a very quick turn on re-directing cargoes…. not many of them savour the UK winter sunshine.

I share your gloomy prognosis, that idiot Johnson was displaying his gleaming false teeth on TV last week and di allow that we might have a 1 in a million cold snap and it would be “tight”.

I always note that when pols say” we have it just about right” means they haven’t a fucking clue.

The bottom line is the EU based energy suppliers bottom line, not our cold bottoms and paralysed industry etc., energy security ? … oh we do have an inter-departmental committee … who no doubt are kacking their collective pants as we speak.

]]> by: DamianB http://www.vitaltrivia.co.uk/2005/10/32#comment-52 Sun, 09 Oct 2005 19:37:58 +0000 http://www.vitaltrivia.co.uk/2005/10/32#comment-52 Chris Thanks very much for the analysis. Can you give us an idea of what a 1 in 10 winter is? And do you have sense of what the sensitivity of domestic supply is to each degree celsius below a certain level? Is it linear? Chris

Thanks very much for the analysis.

Can you give us an idea of what a 1 in 10 winter is? And do you have sense of what the sensitivity of domestic supply is to each degree celsius below a certain level? Is it linear?

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