Revolution - Dystopian television series.

[RenewableCandy]

No-one dare even compile the data, let alone publish them

[Kentucky Fried Panda]

Well draw a ring around them all with the worst possible scenario for prevailing winds and see how far you'll have to travel to stop glowing in the dark.

[RenewableCandy]

Hope you can swim and speak a foreign language

[Kentucky Fried Panda]

I can do both of those.

Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to browse ebay for boats...

[adam2]

I do wonder what would be the effect on our Nuclear power facilities here in the UK in the event of a total grid failure?

Data anyone?

Should be fine, unless the failure was permanent or very long term.
All UK nuclear power plants have multiple backup diesel generators in order to run the cooling systems if grid power is not available.
Fuel is said to be stored for a months operation.

When a reactor is shut down by fully inserting the control rods, heat is still produced though at a rapidly declining rate.
The need for emergency core cooling is not therefore constant but declines in time.

Even Fukushima could have brought safely to a "cold shutdown" state had not the emergency generators been damaged by flooding.

[lama]

Hi everyone, I'm new on this forum!
Anyway I've watched all the episodes of this tv series until now and, even if I find it very unrealistic and exaggerated, it made me think about how much we rely on electricity.
I've become interested in sustainability and all this kind of things just in the last times and I think this tv series can made unaware people, that doesn't bother to inquire about what's going on in the world, think how much electricity is important to us and that we have to do something to improve the situation where we are.