{"id":6526,"date":"2015-12-17T08:31:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T08:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6526"},"modified":"2015-12-17T08:31:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T08:31:11","slug":"more-on-john-loughhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/12\/17\/more-on-john-loughhead\/","title":{"rendered":"More on John Loughhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a few weeks ago about a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=6501&amp;action=edit\">seminar<\/a> at Bath given by Professor John Loughhead, chief scientific advisor to DECC. \u00a0His powerpoint slides are now available on the I-SEE website. \u00a0In what I wrote, I singled out a particular graph, and here it is \u2013 although with much lower resolution that I'd have liked:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2015\/12\/IMG_0975.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6528\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2015\/12\/IMG_0975-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0975\" width=\"368\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2015\/12\/IMG_0975-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2015\/12\/IMG_0975-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2015\/12\/IMG_0975.jpg 1639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the most sobering graph I have seen for a while. \u00a0It shows the UK's September 2015 electricity generation data (x-axis is days; y-axis is power).<\/p>\n<p>The day\/night fluctuation is clear; as is the weekend lull. \u00a0You can see that the baseload is over\u00a050% of the peak demand, and that the vast majority of this is provided by nuclear (blue), coal (red) and gas (green).<\/p>\n<p>Given that we (unlike the supposedly virtuous Germans) are rapidly phasing out coal, and not\u00a0replacing our ageing nuclear plants any time soon, it's clear that the baseload will be mostly gas in the immediate future. \u00a0But how are we to meet our carbon targets while doing this? \u00a0How indeed?<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone at DECC know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a few weeks ago about a seminar at Bath given by Professor John Loughhead, chief scientific advisor to DECC. \u00a0His powerpoint slides are now available on the I-SEE website. \u00a0In what I wrote, I singled out a particular...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-talks-and-presentations"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}