Testing on new server - expect weirdness and breaking things
Welcome to skircoat.one
Hail to you, O sun of the seasons, as you travel the skies aloft!
About Us
Welcome to skircoat.one, Calderdale's first
potentially solar-powered web site!
We're very excited about the project
and are currently in the early stages of getting the project started. We're running the server on a low-power consumption
Onion Omega2 Pro, average power consumption 160mA. We hope to eventually run this from a solar
panel; we've had a couple of attempts with varying degrees of success but we haven't given up yet.
Please check back from time time to get updates.
The whole point of this project is to run a useful, responsive web server that uses as few
resources as possible. I'm attempting a design which balances form and function,
and the carbon footprint of loading/viewing this, and other pages is low.
This is normally just 0.01g of CO2/view and you can verify this by
visiting
Website Carbon.
Lately, I'm taking more of an interest (and therefore an active approach) to where Skircoat's
electric power comes from, and a few days of research has resulted in an up-to-date breakdown
of the power sources that are used to generate the region's power. There's an update every 30
minutes via the API provided by the ESO/National Grid.
Suffice to say that the continued heavy
reliance on fossl fuels is extremely worrying. Yes,
'biomass'
as used in Yorkshire's Drax is still a fossil fuel, and the situation is made worse by the fact
that it's "mainly imported from the Southern USA (by sea!) but also from Europe, Canada and
Southern America". according to Drax. I smell greenwashing, but read
this
and decide for yourself. Oh, and there's a recent
article in the Independent that lays bare more of the
unpleasant facts...
See below for statistics, updated every 30 minutes.
Skircoat Green Electric Power Sources
Fuel sources for HX3, supplied by NG-ESO Region NPG Yorkshire
(Fuel sources with 0% usage are excluded from this table)
OK?
Fuel Type
Percentage Used
N
Biomass
42.6 %
-
Imports
2.9 %
N
Gas
17.4 %
Y
Nuclear
2.2 %
Y
Hydro
0.2 %
Y
Wind
34.6 %
Fuel sources not used (0%): Coal, Other, Solar
Sample period 2021-12-02 00:00 UTC to 2021-12-02 00:30 UTC
Hail to you, O sun of the seasons, as you travel the skies aloft!