UK Wind Record

[Ken]

i used to be able to hear the mains sewage pump until they obviously fixed it. Very low frequency which could travel a long way in a water pipe no doubt.

[AE-NMidlands]

I now suffer from really loud tinnitus due to covid, but that is really high pitched, but I still hear this low pitched one in certain places. I have wondered if it's possibly mains, wifi or possibly due to the telecoms on an old water tower near us.

If anyone has tinnitus my experience might be useful:

I had noticed tinnitus developing through my late 50s and had got to the stage where I wanted to do something about it. However it was overtaken by my wife's complaints abut me having the radio or TV on very loud, so I ended up at out local hospital audiology dept. They said I had simple age-related hearing loss and "gave" me NHS digital hearing aids in which the amplification is matched to the hearing loss over successive frequency ranges in each ear (as well as talking to each other to keep binaural hearing.) They are brilliant - as well as being free - but better still, when wearing them the tinnitus virtually disappears. It was noticeable from the first time I put them on.
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[Tinbum]

I now suffer from really loud tinnitus due to covid, but that is really high pitched, but I still hear this low pitched one in certain places. I have wondered if it's possibly mains, wifi or possibly due to the telecoms on an old water tower near us.

If anyone has tinnitus my experience might be useful:

I had noticed tinnitus developing through my late 50s and had got to the stage where I wanted to do something about it. However it was overtaken by my wife's complaints abut me having the radio or TV on very loud, so I ended up at out local hospital audiology dept. They said I had simple age-related hearing loss and "gave" me NHS digital hearing aids in which the amplification is matched to the hearing loss over successive frequency ranges in each ear (as well as talking to each other to keep binaural hearing.) They are brilliant - as well as being free - but better still, when wearing them the tinnitus virtually disappears. It was noticeable from the first time I put them on.
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Thank you. Yes, I was offered them as well, but haven't taken them up, as I'm certain my problems are due to Long Covid. I've been to ENT loads of times over the last couple of years and had lots of various tests, including an MRI. To be honest I can cope with the tinnitus fine, it's the head and ear pressure that's the hardest. Re loud- I'm the opposite, I can't stand things that are loud, though I do have age related hearing loss. I'm stuck in 'fight or flight' mode and in an over-sensory overload.

[GarethC]

What a day for wind. Not below 15GW on Gridwatch all day, which probably means, what, maybe 18GW including embedded on the other sites?

[dan_b]

National Grid has announced official new max generation record of 21.620GW yesterday

[dan_b]

Help! Some moron I've ended up arguing with on Twitter has "demanded" I show that there wasn't much wind curtailed yesterday - he's trying to blither on that paying wind farms to curtail is a massive subsidy con.

Is there a data graph I can steal that shows wind curtailment/availability yesterday?

[nowty]

Help! Some moron I've ended up arguing with on Twitter has "demanded" I show that there wasn't much wind curtailed yesterday - he's trying to blither on that paying wind farms to curtail is a massive subsidy con.

Is there a data graph I can steal that shows wind curtailment/availability yesterday?

(nowtyrecord for searching, back two messages to the dan_b post, official record now 21.620 GW on 10/01/23, will now need around 22GW on Energy Numbers / 18GW on Gridwatch to beat it)

There only seemed to be a small amount curtailed in the early hours (if any), I'll add the pic on from the link in a few mins.
https://www.bmreports.com/bmrs/?q=gener ... t/out-turn

[Swwils]

I'm sure Moray E will provide the info

[Mr Gus]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-l ... e-64226854

Exagen, land nr Earl Shilton Leicestershire way!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normanton,_Rutland

https://www.exagen.co.uk/


https://www.exagen.co.uk/news/octopus-energy-fund/ OCTOPUS links!

Hoping they will utilise that space for a decent amount of GSHP for the site, wasted opportunity if not, shipping containers get hot as hell without batteries in them as is.

500 megawatts combined battery capacity.

Can it not be under a solar canopy though? (please)

Presumably there is a glut of nearby w/t's ?

[Swwils]

If this was actually 500 MW of charge it would be the largest chemical storage installation in the world. Its most likely 500MWh of discharge on a more limited charge capacity of 140MW or so.

Only 549500MW to go for 2050 decarbonisation targets assuming some generous capacity factors