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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday September 12 2017, @02:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the and-less-radioactive dept.

Energy from offshore wind in the UK will be cheaper than electricity from new nuclear power for the first time.

The cost of subsidies for new offshore wind farms has halved since the last 2015 auction for clean energy projects

Two firms said they were willing to build offshore wind farms for a subsidy of £57.50 per megawatt hour for 2022-23.

This compares with the new Hinkley Point C nuclear plant securing subsidies of £92.50 per megawatt hour.

Nuclear firms said the UK still needed a mix of low-carbon energy, especially for when wind power was not available.

Both nuclear and wind receive subsidies, but for the first time wind is coming to market with less, so providing the same electricity with less cost to the public than nuclear.


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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday September 13 2017, @02:01PM (1 child)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday September 13 2017, @02:01PM (#567223) Journal

    The "Phoenix666 writes:" is not something the submitter actually writes. It's hard-coded in the slashcode. Submit it as a change request to TMB and the SN guys who work on the code.

    If it bothers you enough, volunteer to code it and submit it to TMB and the guys who maintain the repository; they're always happy to have help. If others are bothered by it, too, then that's more reason for you to step up and be the change you want to see. It shouldn't be too hard, technically.

    FWIW, the quoting and linking conventions are congruent with what was standard practice at Slashdot (as in, the link to the source was used to emphasize a point or the thrust of the article by using the text of the excerpt itself), which Soylent grew out of, so it's been done this way more or less for 20 years. It may conflict with editorial practice elsewhere and annoy those used to those conventions, but in online terms it's venerable.

    And since Slashdot held such an influential place in online communities, who's to say it's not the new standard? It annoys the crap out of me that people use "impact" as a transitive verb in any context other than, "to strike something physically and leave a mark, as in, 'the meteor impacted the earth and left a crater,'" and that illiterates cannot, cannot spell 'lose' correctly, as in, 'lose your lunch,' choosing instead the utterly, comically incorrect, 'loose,' but I have to at some level accept that people that know how to do things right are vastly outnumbered by people who don't, and that trying to fight that is a fool's errand. Times change.

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  • (Score: 2) by tfried on Wednesday September 13 2017, @02:50PM

    by tfried (5534) on Wednesday September 13 2017, @02:50PM (#567236)

    Look, it is not the "Phoenix666 writes:" that is bothering me. I don't think that's a particularly elegant solution, and in fact, it is the relevant difference that breaking the "green site quotation format", for good. Worst of both worlds, in combination. However it is entirely straight-forward to avoid ambiguous quotes under the constraint of starting with a hard-coded "Submitter writes:". Most (not all) of your co-submitters do.

    The most obvious solution is to simply put something - anything - before the quote, since that makes it clear that yet another level of speech is starting, i.e. it removes the ambiguity that the quote could be attributed to you, directly. If you do not want to think up some introductory words, each time, the easiest solution is to make that something the source info. I.e.:

    Phoenix666 writes:
    From http://where.did.you/find/this [did.you]:

    Whatever you want to quote

    This very simple format is a no-brainer to both the submitter, and the reader. It further avoids making non-obvious modifications to the quote, such as inserting a link. A gazillion variants of this format are possible. Pick the one that you like best.