Diesel & petrol alternatives? Your thoughts please

Were you affected by the Hornsea outage around 1700 yesterday, Rocky, or did the rest of the Grid keep you powered up?⚡️

I live in a tiny Hamlet of sub 50, if there’s any movement of Lekky cables we get an outage. Then we have to wait for owd Alf to get his bike out pedal the 3miles & reset the breaker. That can take 1-4hrs🤷🏻‍♂️😊

Oh, ok. I thought you knew.

We have similar issues, although not this week. The last was when a seagull flew into the transformer. We’ve even been wired into a big gennie on occasion while things get fixed. You should have heard the neighbours whinge about the noise it made. It was just like moaners on a forum🤣

And how much 'new' power will HS2 need if the country is daft enough to ever build it?

An electrification scheme on existing railway lines in the Midlands has been scrapped. Instead they will use Modal locos that run on both electric and diesel. The government say it is because of cost of the scheme but is it really because they know there will not be enough power available for the trains to run?

Not just the midlands J2-

 Time to get mining good Welsh Steam Coal again ? electrification of rail lines beyond Cardiff is scrapped....! to run on...you guessed it, good old dirty Diesel...Now there's progress isnt it ? old Welsh saying boyo !

 Forget Electric Cars if the Government themselves intend to power new trains with Diesel. Dont do as I do, do as I say.

I see there is a bit on the BBC website saying we will have stop driving altogether to combat climate change.

The thing is if we stopped every form of vehicle/aircraft travel etc, climate change would still occur as it has done for millions of years.

The gov have ordered a fleet of diesel units just recently,