We were celebrating yesterday because we found petrol (ok, gas) for less that £1.80 a litre. For context that's about $10 a gallon. Thank you Costco!
At least I think ton and tonne are spelled differently. I'm American so can't say for sure.
The tonne is a metric measurement for 1000kg. American and UK tons are different amounts, but spelled the same way. They're known as short ton and long ton respectively. America also uses the long ton and the metric tonne for some applications without differentiating the names at all.
I don't know why we don't just switch over, I know engineers hate it.
Thanks for the info!
I assume the UK is the same as the US though where all Imperial units are now just derived from metric equivalents anyway. It's all deranged, welcome to the world.
Regardless, this site has prices in various countries in various volumetric units and currencies:
In my opinion the UK is extremely well positioned geographically for renewables. The main problem right now isn't the technology or the theoretical capacity, it is government policy wherein the UK subsidies fossil fuels heavily, while actually slowing renewable projects and or electric transport[0].
What I find frustrating is that renewables are often only framed around climate change, whereas they are really a national security imperative (as is climate change too, by the way). The UK is too reliant on foreign countries for fossil fuels. The UK could very easily manufacturer wind turbines, but choose not to, then are surprised when international fuel instability and unstable demand wrecks havoc on the country.
You'd think they would have learned something from the current chaos, but the messaging coming out of Whitehall suggests that they're just waiting for the current storm to blow over while not looking over the horizon at how to stop the next time.
[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2020/10/29/uk-spen...
The civil service are utterly incapable of responding to any crisis. In fact, I’d argue that “Yes, Minister” was more documentary than satire.
Dominic Cummings’s breakdowns of COVID behind the scenes paint the picture of chaotic dysfunction back then. Hard to believe anything will have changed since.