UK achieves solar power record as temperatures soar - Sensationalist Headlines

[QUOTE]A record amount of solar power was generated on Friday as Britain basked in sunshine and temperatures of up to 28C, the National Grid has said. It said 8.7 gigawatts (GW) had been generated at lunchtime, representing 24.3% of total generation across the UK. The level tops the previous record of 8.48GW set on 10 May. Duncan Burt, head of control room operations at National Grid, called it the "beginning of a new era". "We now have significant volumes of renewable energy on the system," he said. "We also have the tools available to ensure we can balance supply and demand." Alongside the contribution from solar, 23% of power came from nuclear sources, 30% from natural gas and just 1.4% from coal. [/QUOTE] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40058074[/url]

Keep in mind that panel efficiency will drop a bit as we move into the summer, it's still pretty damn cold outside. Some quick poking around, you have -0.45%/°C Pmax temperature coefficient as a pretty typical figure for a panel. But you can get around that a little by mounting panels in windy places, and by just simply installing more of them.

[QUOTE]sunshine and temperatures of up to 28C[/QUOTE] fucking wow england

Good. Hope it becomes more efficient so we can start using it more often.

[QUOTE=Bertie;52277956]fucking wow england[/QUOTE] Its fucking torture Fuck the solar power pls sun stop

i wish i could tan as easily as i burn this fucking blows

This heat is horrible. It's that point where it's too hot to do anything. Laugh all you want American's but I'm a pasty British man who's used to clouds 99% of the time.

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;52278087]This heat is horrible. It's that point where it's too hot to do anything. Laugh all you want American's but I'm a pasty British man who's used to clouds 99% of the time.[/QUOTE] And to add to the fact that we aren't used to the heat, our houses are designed to keep heat in and ACs are very rare.

[QUOTE=themooselord;52277981]Its fucking torture Fuck the solar power pls sun stop[/QUOTE] FUCKING PASTY-SKINNED VAMPIRES 28C IS NOTHING I GO ON A PLEASANT MID-DAY STROLL AT 28C [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Shitpost" - Reagy))[/highlight]

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;52278087]This heat is horrible. It's that point where it's too hot to do anything. Laugh all you want American's but I'm a pasty British man who's used to clouds 99% of the time.[/QUOTE] Not to mention England is dry as fuck, unlike some more humid environments. Sleeping last night was terrible.

Meanwhile here in the American South summer temps get well up into the high 90s (Fahrenheit)- maybe even 100 deg. F on occasion, and [I]always[/I] with high humidity. Brits just need to learn to embrace the suck. :cool:

Finally there's an open BBQ in UK.

Let's not let this turn to bragging about how much of a nightmarish hellscape your town is. That always seems to happen whenever the Brits get a hot day. Yes, we know it's hotter in Ecuador than it is in London.

That's pretty good for solar generation, I just hope the government can still get enough people incentivised to get solar panels if possible. Seen a few popping up on houses around here but it's probably not enough. Not that I can afford the things on a first house but it'd still be nice to have. I'd have it hooked up to an a/c or just to continue running electricity for more cold beer in a fridge. Whilst the temperature has been high here in the UK, i've got to wonder if these people complaining have tried opening a window. Sure, you're prone to letting in the odd burglar, terrorist or wasp but there's actually still quite a breeze, a few clouds are out there and it's not 100% humidity right now. I'd almost argue that we've got it easy in the coming weeks because this'll be a teaser trailer for what's to come or the weather will decide to rain on us for the entire summer.

Acclimatisation is a thing. Anyway I've seen a lot of solar panels being installed around here. Kinda clashes with farmhouses and wooden cabins but it seems to be paying off.

[QUOTE=ScriptKitt3h;52278260]Meanwhile here in the American South summer temps get well up into the high 90s (Fahrenheit)- maybe even 100 deg. F on occasion, and [I]always[/I] with high humidity. Brits just need to learn to embrace the suck. :cool:[/QUOTE] you wouldn't survive living in a land where everything is cold, foggy, and exudes the kind of feeling of miserableness usually found in charles dickens novels

I ordered another fan and got amazon prime just so I can get it 3 days earlier. I'm the kind of guy who struggles to sleep as is, this added heat makes it impossible to.

[QUOTE=Bertie;52278218]FUCKING PASTY-SKINNED VAMPIRES 28C IS NOTHING I GO ON A PLEASANT MID-DAY STROLL AT 28C[/QUOTE] Then you get low temperatures and you call it a blizzard or something of the sort just like news nowadays hot summer day = CODE RED DON'T GO OUT Lil' windy and rainy outside = DANGEROUS COASTAL EVENT GOING ON, CODE ORANGE

I didn't realise the temperatures were soaring. I spent all day yesterday trying to figure out why it was so hot, and sweating my arse off at night

I had to leave college early on Thursday due to getting mild heat stroke. I had nothing to drink all day and was made to walk to a different campus across town and back. Can we cancel summer and go back to how we were a couple weeks ago please

Yanks forget this every year. While it's 25c outside in England, its 30c+ indoors. When you guys say it's 45c-60c outside, it's 18-20c inside with air con. Imagine sitting in a car with no airflow that's been left in the sun all day, it can get uncomfortable very quick even in 25c weather.

We've had the windows open the past few days at work and there's been fuck all wind so it does nothing. Office is like a greenhouse too, big windows on each side catching the sun all day. I kinda wrote off anything getting done after lunch today

Can we make it like this all the time please? Everyone I've dealt with seems approx 70% happier now that the sky isn't just a nondescript grey mass

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;52278374]you wouldn't survive living in a land where everything is cold, foggy, and exudes the kind of feeling of miserableness usually found in charles dickens novels[/QUOTE] come to ohio, we have both the miserably hot and humid summers (last year i walked to my college classes through 32 C and 90+% Rh) and the dreary long months without sun from the time of november through april jokes aside, its really really tragic that these things are being achieved after decades of work and now you have deeply conservative governments trying to derail all of this just as momentum is building, like they're all going after solar and wind subsidies even as these events clearly show they fucking work

My girlfriend flew back to Canada a few days ago after a two week trip here, experiencing pouring rain and clouds in London for pretty much the whole time, then literally the day she leaves this heat and sunshine comes out of nowhere. Fuck u sun

Y'all pussies Here in this shit province we call buenos aires get at most -5/-7 C in winter and 40 C in summer. We know no stability whatsoever. Political. Economical. Social. Nor climate.

Today really was nuts, it's still 20C here at 12am which I don't think I have ever seen happen. It's practically t-shirt weather out there still, by now it's usually freezing cold even in the middle of summer. [QUOTE=GrizzlyBear;52278236]Not to mention England is dry as fuck, unlike some more humid environments. Sleeping last night was terrible.[/QUOTE] Quite the opposite actually, the humidity is what makes the heat awful for us. Higher humidity means your sweat doesn't evaporate into the air as easily, which is why the absolute worst hot days are ones that are generally overcast and moist because you sweat buckets and it all sticks to you. A lot of posters in these threads fail to account for the fact that, for example, our [B]least humid days are generally more humid than their most humid days[/B]. I think I remember reading that 60% humidity is about the limit for a 'comfortable' hot day, I'm pretty sure during summer months most US states don't go much higher than 50-60% humidity at the hottest parts of the day whereas most places in the UK don't go below 70%+ and can easily go up to 90%+. There's also that and the fact that we are used to a very mild climate where almost all year temps don't really go below 0C and don't really go above 10-15C so nobody is used to these kinds of temperatures at all, our houses are built to be very well insulated to keep heat in, and nobody has aircon. My parents go out to Turkey 6 months out of a year and every time they go they spend the first few weeks in agony from the heat change, then after that they are fine. When they come back they are freezing all the time for a few weeks as well.

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;52278087]This heat is horrible. It's that point where it's too hot to do anything. Laugh all you want American's but I'm a pasty British man who's used to clouds 99% of the time.[/QUOTE] it was like 13 degrees this morning and i could barely move as my muscles began to give into the cold.

[QUOTE=Bertie;52278218]FUCKING PASTY-SKINNED VAMPIRES 28C IS NOTHING I GO ON A PLEASANT MID-DAY STROLL AT 28C[/QUOTE] Shit they're figuring it out again, release the plague

[QUOTE=The Drones;52278853]I had to leave college early on Thursday due to getting mild heat stroke. I had nothing to drink all day and was made to walk to a different campus across town and back. Can we cancel summer and go back to how we were a couple weeks ago please[/QUOTE] Should have drank something then huh