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Archy de Berker
Personal blog · archy.deberker.com · on HN as archydebscienceeconomics
Archy de Berker's personal blog at archy.deberker.com covers science and economics. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “The UK is wasting a lot of wind power”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Archy de Berker's blog for analysis of UK energy, mainly wasted wind power, grid constraints and curtailment costs, with some posts on solar and storage technology and housing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog and notes on climate, data, software, and work.
Most-linked posts?
- The UK is wasting a lot of wind power6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2023-01-12
What Hacker News says?
Solar and batteries have made a lot of strides. At the technology level, it looks great. The problem is that energy is a concerted industry that requires all of the parts to work together. That requires institutions that are ready and willing to play ball. Otherwise you look like Brazil, which until this year had a really impressive trend of solar adoption which just... suddenly... stopped: https://www.absolar.org.b…
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on “Solar-plus-storage technology is improving quickly”Submitted The UK is wasting a lot of wind power as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere is a really good write up of this topic from 2023: https://archy.deberker.com/the-uk-is-wasting-a-lot-of-wind-p...
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on “The Quiet Driving Force Behind Rising Curtailment Costs in Great Britain”Submitted HOW we get to Net Zero matters more than WHEN as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is frustrating. ChatGPT that everyone is so fond of is run with electricity. So are cryptocurrencies. So is <insert new toy>. Passively safe nuclear power plants! From a note I sent to another person I would like us to have free energy though. I think that perhaps the point of life is to make the necessities of life so cheap as to be free so we can all sit around thinking deep thoughts and staring at the clouds…
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on “Georgia’s big new nuclear reactors could be the last built in the US”>UK has a political crisis, based on an identity crisis, for which there is no foreseeable solution on the horizon. UK also has an incredible deficit of housing units and a general weakness in construction: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/09/01/britains-failur... >England has 434 homes per 1,000 people, whereas France has 590 A high real price of housing increases salary demands in skilled industries like hea…
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on “UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF”Related - "The UK is wasting a lot of wind power" from 2023. https://archy.deberker.com/the-uk-is-wasting-a-lot-of-wind-p... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34358795
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on “Open Infrastructure Map”The peak UK power consumption is 30GW, so this would make a huge impact. But the UK also needs to do something about its deficient power grid which does not allow plentiful Scottish wind power to be transported to South England where most of the demand lies: https://archy.deberker.com/the-uk-is-wasting-a-lot-of-wind-p...
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on “Europe needs energy. Moroccan solar may be a clean solution”