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Well I have smugly recovered 2.5% of the 25%, just 22.5% to go!!!!

all out easy j, another 1% off the loss,2.5% clawed back.

Back to my exit price yesterday, what to do??

July which year, lol

That Express piece is the classic propaganda BS that has mislead so many, it is a sales pitch to flog more turbines on false promises of self-sufficiency.

"During the recent Storm Eunice day-ahead energy prices actually fell as wind produced nearly 50 percent of the UK's electricity."

A bare faced lie!

Even texts that try and play down the high wind problem by using terms such as hurricanes can not hide the truth, turbine efficiency drops over 25 mph because the blades are pitched to waste wind energy and the turbine must be stopped at 55 mph, and that is only for the most advanced. Many have a much lower furling speed. So to claim the turbines were over producing during storm Eunice is a bare faced lie. You will not hear the lie bing 'fact checked' or challenged across mainstream media because it would instantly expose what a con these turbines are. Very expensive lumps of spinning metal that cost a fortune to maintain.

"2. Wind Speed too High – Furling Speed
As wind speed increases, the wind turbine will reach what is called its ‘rated speed’. This is the wind speed at which the turbine generates maximum electricity, and for a modern grid-scale wind turbine, this is about 25mph4 (Beaufort Wind Force 6 – Strong Breeze).

If the wind speed continues to increase, the blades spin faster and faster, and this is not desirable. The turbine needs to be kept within its rated speed for maximum generation efficiency. This is done by slowing down the blades using a process called pitch control or blade feathering. Blade feathering is when the angle of the turbine blades is twisted so that they pick up less of the wind and so keep rotating at the rated speed even as the wind speed increases.

If the wind speed continues to increase, all wind turbines have a maximum wind speed above which they cannot operate. This is called the turbine’s ‘furling speed’. If the wind speed exceeds the furling speed (for example in a hurricane) the turbine has to be shut down to prevent the blades getting damaged. A modern grid-scale wind turbine has a furling speed of about 55mph (Beaufort Wind Force 10 – Storm). Once the wind speed drops back down safely below the furling speed, the turbine can be allowed to restart and continue generating electricity."

https://energyfollower.com/why-do-wind-turbines-stop/

An interesting though. Putin puts out the threat to top oil and gas to retaliate against sanctions. Response from west is to loo elsewhere and workarounds including taking financial hit. No discussion anywhere about capitulation. How long as Putin got when his last card, his ace trump, is not even noticed on the table? Game over me thinks.

Shares in the green today. Not yet reaching my error entry point yesterday on what is increasingly snakes and ladders trading board. My aim is to day trade down the 2% paper loss before the end of the war and ceasefire rebound. A slow game and a major distraction.

fordm, you set out defend the indefensible. I know where that thought pattern comes from and proes our so called free press routinely brainwash people with their agenda rather than rationale and truly honest news.

Generally the older people get, the experience and knowledge they have, the experience of predictions and promises that never happen, then start questioning increasingly turning against the narrative and consensus utility reach the gold standard 'grumpy old bugger' level. It is a journey man undertake and many reading this will remember, wit some red faces, the ideological positions they once took but would not do so again.

The problem Lloyds, is the type of oil. Saudis don't produce nice sweet easily refillable Brent crude.

Of course you can't post any of your thousands of examples fordem, they don't exist. Where "whole population a terrorist organisation" is this claimed?
You have your mythical right wing monster in your head, a caricature develop with decades of misreporting routinely sympathetic to the poor oppressed people on the end of the nasty big boys with aeroplanes. Why were the nasty big boys there? Of course, as an apologist for the child murdering terrorists you will always erase the initial attacks against the innocent, always you'll move the goalpost to suite. Always. Without fail. Hysterical empathy!

"Politicians passing the buck so they can try win votes"

The party that puts in their manifesto to abandon net zero plan and concentrate on affordable energy will win outright irrespective of any other policy they have. They will hardly get any airing of the no net zero policy though. It is a presumption that because the media is saturated to hysterical levels [remember the runup to cop26 and the madness of the doomsday reportng?] that the great unwashed automatically adopt the narrative.

For example, the green lobby has attempted to use the Russian war and energy crisis as a basis for expanding renewables even further. It is such a nuts idea as people discover significant drawbacks of relying on renewables that the great unwashed are not fooled again.

The first significant failure was to not promote LPG dual fuel cars during new labour early '00s - Brown wanted petrol taxes for vanity project. Also the Blair government delayed nuclear build well down the road beyond when they would no longer be in office, somebody else's' problem. That was a catastrophic error. Then Cameron with what's his name from the SALADs going green because that was the established narrative and not supporting nuclear development stopping never ending planning holdups. Cameron eventually got the energy supply message as far as the electorate was concerned, "cut out all the green crap", but by the time May comes along the 'green crap' has been institutionalized. Media is completely bound to it having made such implacable declarations they have to keep up the lie else lose all credibility.

Well, here is the wake up call. To continue with the net zero policy wold be a complete folly. To ignore the resources on our own doorstep is a complete folly. Fossil fuels will run out one day, but we need time to develop alternatives and totally change our social methodologies to implement any change. Less than 8 years fossil fueled cars will be ILLEGAL. Imagine how devastating that will be to he tens of millions who will never have access to battery cars or even a charging point. A complete folly.

We need the government to announce that UK Oil and Gas [UKOG] should be given exclusively a free hand to drill where they want and when they want with the blessing of the whole country. It might not actually solve the energy crisis, but ****ing hell it would make a rich man!!!!

" when a 15 year old Palestinian boy is throwing rocks at an Israeli bulldozer about to level his home, we, the 'civilised west' label him a terrorist "

Show me anywhere that has happened? I can say with confidence Bowen et al will send a news report very sympathetic to the 15 yer old and very negative about the people behind the bulldozer. Perhaps if some real truths were aired about the terrorists in place like Gaza and Afghanistan those same people would not feel emboldened that they have supporters broadcasting their threats and intimidation helping to suppress the communities around them. BBC has a hell to a lot to answer for in the middle east.

As ever, the apologists for the terrorist community shift the goal posts all over the place to suite their target. Nobody would argue all the dealings of communities housing, hiding and facilitating terrorist factions are squeaky clinically clean. But to deal with the indiscriminate murder and killing by ruthless terrorists inevitably bores down to base tactics. I you were on the receiving end of the death and destruction, sitting on the aeroplane blown up by the PLO, you'd be asking, why are these people being allowed to do this? Why isn't somebody stopping this? Why no preemptive action knowing this will happen again and again?

I remember seeing arabs and jews living alongside each other happy as Larry. But certain political groups who enclave themselves to manipulate a local community chose to make war with those around them. I am ell aversed of the history and the Palestinians especially in he Gaza strip bring o themselves much of their troubles.

Trolls are up early this morning. Perhaps if the the Palestinians didn't fire hundreds and hundreds of rockets indiscriminately into Israel, then Israel would not be forced to stop the bombardment. Your sympathies are misaligned. You have been watching too many Jeremy Bowan reports from the middle east. He has set up and led the whole BBC and UK media a bizarre one-sided narrative where indiscriminate bombing of civilians right across Israel is the norm.

"I did not see this much outrage or intervention when Putin was killing civilians in Syria using cluster bombs.
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For the simple reason Russia was practical allies with Europe taking on ISIS in Syria. It seemed Russia was on the same page in more and more ways leading to the energy reliance policies with the EU despite strong warnings from the US. The EU knowingly got deeper and deeper with Russia ignoring warnings. A lot to do with the nation state building ethos trying to independant to the point of scorning any friendly advice.

The EU's independent Russian policy is now in tatters and thousands are dying again thanks to the EU trying to be big and important. An almost identical repeat of the Balkans. Except this time we can'just end it by sending in Nato without rising nuclear weapons being deployed.

https://www.travelpulse.com/news/travel-agents/travel-advisors-report-mixed-client-reaction-on-russia-ukraine-conflict.html

some travel related copy. I checked it was at least the correct year.

The story was flagged up as new, my feed is normally reliable. It is not a 'lie', just came up in a feed as new. From a source I haven't used before either, MTV. Clearly they are not reliable and won't be trusted again.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/rsd88#2b0cbcda

https://www.mtv.com.lb/en/News/International/1262597/mtv-correspondent-in-ukraine--putin-s-plane-took-off-to-washington

Something is up! Something is happening!

I pulled a blinder there, bought in top of last peak, square had a snake on it, down I went. Still, things looking much more perky. As long as each in/out gets me a percent or two and I'm in on spikes, it'll work out just fine.