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Thai Expert Explains High Electricity Bills in Thailand
billd766 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Sorry. I must have gone brain dead for a while. Those prices are the average prices in the USA. In Thailand the price is anybody's guess depending on how much would be corrupted and by how many. -
Thai Expert Explains High Electricity Bills in Thailand
billd766 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Over the years I have picked up a few and remember the ones I use frequently like banks etc. If I get stuck on one, I generally copy and paste it to an internet search. -
Thai Expert Explains High Electricity Bills in Thailand
billd766 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
West Raynham is now the site of one of the largest solar farm in the UK I believe. Somebody bought the entire airfield, rented out most of the buildings and hangars, ripped up the runway and built the solar farm. If you look up RAF West Raynham you can see the solar panels clearly.. -
Thai Expert Explains High Electricity Bills in Thailand
billd766 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
It was 2,000 MW in reference to another poster and not 200 MW. After 30 years in operation there will also be fairly large de installation costs. You could check with Germany and the UK for them and scale it to fit. -
Thai Expert Explains High Electricity Bills in Thailand
billd766 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
EGAT = Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand. MEA = Metropolitan Electricity Authority = Bangkok PEA = Provincial Electricity Authority = rural areas -
Thai Expert Explains High Electricity Bills in Thailand
billd766 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Sadly Thailand is already beholden to buy electricity from the latest dam built with Thai money, as well as existing contracts with private power producers in Thailand, though to be fair, IF a nuclear power plant was built, it would juxt about be ready in time for the existing contracts to run out, assuming that it was started this year. -
Thai Expert Explains High Electricity Bills in Thailand
billd766 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
But eastern England is not Thailand which is where people seem to thing nuclear power is needed. I was also in eastern England in the RAF during the cold war which means nothing anymore. The best cost estimate I have found so far is this one. cost of a 2000 mw nuclear power station. thailand Advanced nuclear reactors are estimated to cost $5,366 for every kilowatt of capacity. That means a large 1-gigawatt reactor would cost around $5.4 billion to build, excluding financing costs. A 2000 MW nuclear power station using those figures would cost around 1 billion $USD, or a minimum of 34 billion baht, excluding financing costs. Then you would have to find sitewhere to site it where people would not object too much and hook it into the national grid. AFAIR all power stations need a constant water supply for cooling so it needs to be by the sea or by a river that won't run dry. How long it would take to build is outside of my skill set but probably 10 years start to finish is my guess. In the meantime Thailand already has a 36% electrical generating capacity and more will come on line when the Laos dams are completed (with mostly Thai funding). -
The media's 'Biden Protection Program' is back
billd766 replied to Social Media's topic in World News
He believes in anything detrimental to President Biden, especially if it comes from that bastion of truth, "Fox News". -
Thai Expert Explains High Electricity Bills in Thailand
billd766 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
The way I understand it is that the private companies are selling to EGAT at a high cost on a 25 year contract, and the only way for EGAT to get its money back is to charge the ordinary customers more. -
Thai Expert Explains High Electricity Bills in Thailand
billd766 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Should they put one in your back garden, or are you a nimby? And where will they build these nuclear power stations? Who will pay for them and they don't come cheap in money or time. It will probably be the customers in the end through even higher electricity bills. -
Cannabis and the Upcoming Election
billd766 replied to up-country_sinclair's topic in Thailand Cannabis Forum
It is not that realistic, but neither was the badly thought out, badly worded and badly half hearted law. Anutin and the BJT set it up in time for the election expecting a walkover, but they didn't do a proper job and it is backfiring on them. IMHO Anutin believed that it would be an election winner, that the BJT would be the election winner and that he would be the PM. If you believe the polls, Anutin and the BJT are down in the also rans. This is always a problem if you surround yourself with people who always tell you what you want to hear, and especially if you believe your own hype. -
The gun nuts will NEVER concede that. Their mantra is that you can take the gun from my cold dead hand only. If that is what they want, then that is the way it should be. These 2 teenagers should be treated as adults and jailed for life. Who ever supplied their guns should be treated the same way and jailed for life.
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Guns by themselves,in a heap are perfectly harmless and do no damage at all to anybody. The problem begins when when people of all ages from toddlers to elders in their 80s get their hands on a gun. For toddlers I believe it is curiosity as they have no idea what it is or does, but "daddy" has a few. After the age of perhaps 8 or 9 there is no excuse and no need for a gun no matter which way the 2nd amendment is read.
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Will government hospitals and offices be open on 1 May?
billd766 replied to topswijaya's topic in General Topics
It will also affect any money transfers from offshore too. -
Vote buying: The engine of corruption in Thailand
billd766 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Lucky her. I don't think my wife has been offered anything, yet. -
Electric Vehicle Registrations Increase for 3rd Consecutive Month
billd766 replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
I have done a search of the Post which is where I think I saw that info and the only thing I have found was back on 2nd January. Rosana Tositrakul a former Bangkok senator claimed that EGAT had signed contracts, each lasting 25 years, but fairly close. for private companies to provide capacity to EGAT at a high cost, whether the power was used or not. It wasn't what I was looking for but it was close enough. -
She is 57 now and in her prime and I wouldn't swap her for anybody else. I could do with a young girl in her 20s to help us out but she will need muscles like an Irish navvy to hump me around and pick me up if I fall. A good command of the English language would help as well as working for free. Sadly my wife has not found one yet, or so she says. I think she has developed an English sense of humour.
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I gave them my wife's mobile and she deals with it, Fortunately they don't deliver until late in the afternoon as we are just about at the end of their delivery line.
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I rarely use anything else when ordering through Lazada. The only problem I have had in years was ordering the 4 colours of ink for my Brother printer. I got 2 large bottles of black ink and no colour inks, but that may have been me wrongly ordering.