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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • Reminds me of a joke told by an old Polish priest from his time in the Soviet Union.

    A party official is sent to a village that hadn’t been meeting it’s quota.
    He meets with the mayor and tells him "Trucks are coming tomorrow. The central committee has decreed you will fill them with your potato stockpile.
    “As you say Comrade” says the mayor, “our potato stockpile is stacked high enough to reach God.”
    “God?” Retorts the official incredulously “There is no god in the Soviet Union!”
    The mayor shrugs “There are no potatoes either”



  • Raxiel@lemmy.worldtoEurope@feddit.deWell, this is something!
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    8 months ago

    Well that doesn’t help, but installed capacity is over 20GW (well, it was before Dogger bank, it’s probably more now). It was very satisfying last Christmas when high winds, along with mild temperatures, and a lot of shops and offices being closed meant wind was able to cover a substantial amount of the reduced demand. FF generators were under 2GW at one point, pretty much idle standby.