10-10-2021, 05:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-10-2021, 05:54 PM by Borin' Baggie.)
(10-10-2021, 04:35 PM)Cunninghamismagic Wrote:(10-10-2021, 09:21 AM)Derek Hardballs Wrote:(10-10-2021, 08:51 AM)Borin' Baggie Wrote:(10-10-2021, 08:38 AM)Cunninghamismagic Wrote: The Green lobby, with Cheerleader Boris at its helm, are now fully in charge. And people an surprised that their energy bills are shooting up as we subsidise expensive green energy.
Is this a piss take?
Wind is cheap as fuck. As is solar. Blame Thatcher for not investing into nuclear infrastructure in the 80s to replace the Magnox reactors instead having us be reliant on gas for rising energy bills, and this government for selling off storage capacity and leaving the IEM.
What has the Mail, Express, Torygraph and GBeebies told CIM to believe?
Did you copy and paste that from the Guardian again?
The conversation to (less efficient) green energy is costing a fortune.
Agree not investing in nuclear was a huge mistake. Fracking would have been a useful short term option (as they are finding in the US where energy prices aren't shooting up like here). Unfortunately the green lobby and Russian propaganda put an end to that. So we find ourselves reliant on Putin and Russian gas and green energy. Storing up big future issues
Fracking is a dead duck. It's impossible to do with our geology and population density, we are not the US. What put an end to it was not the green lobby nor Russia (we buy fuck all gas from Russia it might surprise you to learn, so why would we care? We're not Germany) but the geological effects of it scaling up with larger magnitude tremors, the same thing that killed it in the Netherlands and Denmark though we had the benefit of hindsight unlike them so our limits were rightly more cautious based on their data. Those limits were put into place by review with the government and the iMechE, unless you think that the iMechE is now beholden to Russia.
The only people who support fracking are those with shares in Quadrilla and those who listen to the every word of bullshit merchants who have shares in Quadrilla.
(10-10-2021, 02:51 PM)Protheroe Wrote:(10-10-2021, 08:51 AM)Borin' Baggie Wrote: Wind is cheap as fuck.
But what about the 'science' of "global stilling"?
Did you read the FT article?
10% decrease in wind speeds as an observed trend by 2100 assuming those short term trends are continued, even with that it's cheap as fuck. And the phenomenon isn't uniform, there was a nice graphic that showed the variation in areas close to the sea and areas further south where the recorded wind speeds were not below average.