Comments by "Phil Dobson" (@phildobson8705) on "Disruptors: Smart power - BBC News" video.

  1. We could also move daylight saving to 2 hours in the peak of summer to save wasting electricity in the evening and switch off street lights in small hours instead of this ridiculous idea we have to have light 24 hours a day
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  2.  @dickmartino9933  it's about 1000 miles between time zones so we would need some kind of superconducting Power Transmission to power an entire country from thousands of miles away during the night but it must be possible
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  3.  @markplott4820  because of its latitude UK has much longer days in the summer and much shorter days in the winter. In the winter it's dark when you drive to work and dark when you drive home and that's with 12 set for natural highest peak of the sun. In the summer it gets light at 3 a.m. but nobody is going to get up there early so we called 3 a.m. 4 am. People often liked be in bed till 7 a.m. so we call 6 a.m. 7 a.m. and they are all happy. This way it stays light till 10 p.m. saving a fortune in lighting
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  4.  @markplott4820  You try getting planning permission. The Green Party lead protests against it and bring people from hundreds of miles away to walk around your land protesting about it I don't know why they're even called the Green Party. But is not just that is old age pensioners who moved to the countryside and now think you're going to industrialize the landscape with your wind turbine when they came for the nice view on their Sunday drive. Some places wind turbines are actually a tourist attraction but most places are just interested in getting votes from their new old people
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  5. Car to grid is going to wear your battery out because battery will last for x number of charge discharge Cycles then you need new batteries. Therefore Australia's idea is better, buy batteries for the grid nationality. The amount of batteries needed will ultimately be the same because instead of having to replace all the car batteries that same amount of capacity has been purchased exclusively for the grid
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