Every Briton should stockpile water and food supplies, government advises

Guno צְבִי said:
Every Briton is being urged to stock up to nine litres of bottled water and three days’ worth of food in new government guidance designed to ensure that households can survive a weather, cyber or other serious emergency.

The Be Ready campaign is aimed at persuading people to stock up with supplies to last 72 hours, amid growing official concern about the impact of the climate crisis, technological dependency and hostile state threats.


Dan Jarvis, the security minister, said that “those who can follow this advice should follow this advice”. It amounted to “simple steps to be ready for everyday emergencies” as part of a wider, community-oriented effort “to improve our resilience as a nation”, he said.

Wes Streeting, the defence secretary, added that Britain also needed to prepare for the threat of “state-sponsored terrorism” by Russia or other hostile powers targeting everyday infrastructure.

“Terms like ‘hybrid warfare’ and ‘grey zone threats’ do not accurately capture or convey to the general public what I prefer to describe as ‘state-sponsored terrorism’,” he said.

“So in the face of those threats, which are not hypothetical but real, and not somewhere else but increasingly here, we have to step up and take seriously our national resilience as well as our national defence.

“It’s really important that we ask households and businesses, are they prepared? Are they ready? Do they know how they would respond in the event of everyday challenges that might manifest themselves?”

www.theguardian.com

Every Briton should stockpile water and food supplies, government advises

Be Ready campaign aims to prepare UK for impact of climate crisis, technological dependency and threats by hostile state
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They're expecting Russian cyberattacks and such I suspect.
 
QP! said:
Your assumptions are what is worthless.

Not everything has to be perfect in EVERY situation for it to be of value. You push a version of this retarded argument when you say EV's need to be able to do EVERYTHING or they have no value, an argument i have destroyed over and over and shown how stupid you are pointing out ICE vehicles, like compact cars, pick up trucks, convertibles, etc do not DO EVERYTHING and yet have huge utility in the market.

In this case the argument TEXAS IS MAKING WITH DATA FROM THEIR 2025 ice storm is that having the renewable AND the fossil fuel based power BOTH, gives them a layer of redundancy such that if one shuts down, in an emergency, the other is there is back up.

They had no such redundancy during the 2021 Ice storm and the system crashed leading to mass deaths and State wide shut downs. By 2025, they had the Renewables as redundancy with battery storage back up and it SAVED THE SYSTEM from a similar collapse to 2021.

No one cares that you do not care about any of that Terry and that you hand wave them away. Those are real facts. They prove that simply adding 'more of the same' is not always superior to diversify inputs to build redundancy into the grid.

you can yell into the wind all you want that what Texas is doing and SHOWING PROOF that it IS WORKING, will not work, because you, Terry, say so, but what you cannot do is prove the very real world example of Texas as being wrong.
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Red herring fallacy combined with a fallacy fallacy.

The key measurement here is the kilowatt-day, not the kilowatt-hour. You are trying to make an argument that is a false analogy using a faulty generalization, that results in an argument from ignorance. A single, unusual, event in Texas proves nothing about the ability of solar and wind to supply reliable, efficient, daily power to a large-scale grid at a reasonable cost.

Show me how a PV solar array can supply 24-hours of energy day in and out, in all typical weather conditions. I know the answer, by the way, and that answer is it can't do it at a reasonable cost.

Everyone cares about that answer. It is your cherry-picked example that is a gross exception that nobody cares about.
 
Guno צְבִי said:
Such a clueless kolobian , and very boring , but thanks for caring about my voting, ya dumb putz
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Guano, there are a few things more puzzling than a moron who claims to be a Jew, then votes and posts against his own best interest.
You, my friend, are one of the dumbest motherfuckers on this forum.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
It is YOU that has no understanding of intermittent power generation on a large-scale power system. And, I am something of an authority on these topics.

For example, I was a serious source in getting this proposition in Arizona shot down by an almost 70% NO! vote:


I even got hate mail from the radical Leftist environmental front.

I did the research, did the math, and solar and wind are uncompetitive. With solar, the PV panels could be FREE and it would still be too expensive compared to nuclear or natural gas. That's how bad solar is.
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Whether or not they are competitive is a different question. The climate is changing regardless. A few days emergency supplies may be a trifle but it calls attention to the heedlessness.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Red herring fallacy combined with a fallacy fallacy.

The key measurement here is the kilowatt-day, not the kilowatt-hour. You are trying to make an argument that is a false analogy using a faulty generalization, that results in an argument from ignorance. A single, unusual, event in Texas proves nothing about the ability of solar and wind to supply reliable, efficient, daily power to a large-scale grid at a reasonable cost.

Show me how a PV solar array can supply 24-hours of energy day in and out, in all typical weather conditions. I know the answer, by the way, and that answer is it can't do it at a reasonable cost.

Everyone cares about that answer. It is your cherry-picked example that is a gross exception that nobody cares about.
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Again you use fallacies you do not understand wrongly.

I am not arguing kilowatt day or kilowatt hour and you are engaged in a argument in your own head.

I am simply relaying to what the top energy officials in Texas are reporting with data and facts.

And it is not a "single unusual event" and is two significant events within a short period of time that made Texas see the massive cost in both dollars (productivity, damage, etc) and lives lost when the grid that does not have a built in redundancy fails.

You refuse to read what is in those links and what Texas is reporting because it is NOT what you WANT to believe.

Again the argument is NOT that the Renewable energy has to be 100% of the solution and thus your question of "show me how a PV solar array can supply 24 hours of energy". That is a stupid question by a stupid person. Just as an hybrid that has a battery and gasoline engine BOTH does not need to show you how it can run endlessly on the battery. It is the hybrid approach that allows it to run on fossil fuels when needed but also to run and be backed up with Renewables and battery when the other fails.
 
Texas grid data is determining that the rapid expansion of renewables (wind and solar) paired with battery storage is fundamentally transforming grid reliability, shielding consumers from skyrocketing costs, and absorbing unprecedented demand from data centers and extreme weather.

Recent data from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) illustrates several clear conclusions:

1. Renewables + Batteries = Reliability During Extreme Heat
Historically, extreme summer heatwaves triggered widespread panic and dozens of emergency conservation appeals in Texas. However, data from the summer of 2026 determined that the grid can successfully handle record-breaking demand (peaking at a massive 91.3 GW) without a single conservation alert. [1, 2]
  • The Daylight Cushion: Solar output has scaled so rapidly that it now routinely provides over one-third of the state's electricity during the day, frequently reducing the grid's mid-day reliance on natural gas. In fact, for 94% of summer days in recent months, the grid was powered by a majority of clean energy at some point during the day. [1, 2, 3, 4]
  • The "Net Peak" Bridge: Utility-scale battery storage capacity expanded exponentially, reaching nearly 14 GW by 2026. Data proves that these batteries successfully bridge the critical 8:00 p.m. evening peak—when solar drops off but demand remains high—by discharging an average of 4,000 MW into the grid, offsetting thermal and gas outages. [1, 2, 3, 4]

2. Clean Energy is Essential to Support the Data Center Boom
Texas is experiencing the fastest electricity demand growth in the United States, driven heavily by cryptocurrency mining, manufacturing, and over 300 active data centers. [1, 2]
  • Peak demand is projected to skyrocket by nearly 60% by 2030 (climbing from 87 GW to 138 GW).
  • With natural gas additions facing projected long-term shortfalls, data indicates that the massive backlog of interconnection requests—exceeding 200 GW—will rely heavily on the state's 900+ pipeline solar and wind projects to stay online. [1, 2, 3]

3. Substantial Economic Savings for Consumers
According to data compiled by the University of Texas, the presence of zero-fuel-cost wind and solar in the market has saved Texas consumers over $30 billion since 2010 by driving down wholesale electricity prices. [1]
 
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