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Well done wind
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The wind was terrible in Bradford, it caused £250,000 of improvements.
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The wind has certainly made me some money this week, been out on call 3 nights on the trot. Loadsa money!!!!
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As I understand it, which is probably all wrong, we the people pay the same for energy whether it's gas or wind produced. If one is cheaper to produce the rest of the dosh goes to HMG.
Some seem not to have heard anythng about recent fusion developments. New high temperature superconducting magnets - REBCO tape - are a major step.
AI can be used to help stabilise the fields in a Tokamak.
We don't really know what China is doing but they're likely to be the first to claim a commercial fusion reactor, probably in the next 10 years.
Some seem not to have heard anythng about recent fusion developments. New high temperature superconducting magnets - REBCO tape - are a major step.
AI can be used to help stabilise the fields in a Tokamak.
We don't really know what China is doing but they're likely to be the first to claim a commercial fusion reactor, probably in the next 10 years.
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Where is the ‘reliable’ and ‘affordable’ green electricity we have been promised for years? Where is the £300 reduction in our bills?
‘Reliable’? Over the last year renewables could produce only 38.3 per cent of our electricity so we had to rely on gas 29.9, nuclear 13.3, biomass 7.3 (not green) and Europe 11.2 per cent to keep the lights on.
‘Affordable’? The wind industry gets £billions of subsidies every year in addition to their strike price. Constraint payments are expected to increase from £1.5billion in 2024 to £2.4billion in 2025. The CfD scheme has paid out £10billion and counting. For ONE year 2023/2024 the RO sucked £4.6billion from consumers. The total cost to the electricity consumer of renewable electricity subsidy schemes since 2002 is £220billion.
‘Reliable’? Over the last year renewables could produce only 38.3 per cent of our electricity so we had to rely on gas 29.9, nuclear 13.3, biomass 7.3 (not green) and Europe 11.2 per cent to keep the lights on.
‘Affordable’? The wind industry gets £billions of subsidies every year in addition to their strike price. Constraint payments are expected to increase from £1.5billion in 2024 to £2.4billion in 2025. The CfD scheme has paid out £10billion and counting. For ONE year 2023/2024 the RO sucked £4.6billion from consumers. The total cost to the electricity consumer of renewable electricity subsidy schemes since 2002 is £220billion.
We also need to look further down the line. What we know for a fact is that resources on Earth will soon be insufficient to support the population, and we'll need to colonise space. What exactly are we going to power our ships with? Windmills? Solar panels? We'll need fusion drives, mini reactors driven by nuclear fusion. And how are we going to achieve that without funding for even the most basic research?
So waste less, and procreate less. A lot simpler and cheaper.
Where do you suggest?
If you think the Earth is going to be uninhabitable and under-resourced, you're going to have to find something that isn't.
You (along with most of us) won't be on the ships anyway, so better to look after your current home.
For what purpose though? As I've already pointed out the folly of "let's just colonise space!"
Just because you keep saying it, doesn't make it true.
Remarkably, at the moment 51% of the nation's electricity needs are geing met by windpower, and 17% by solar.
No smoke, no acid rain, no toxic pollution or dust from those sources.
I am old enough to remember when Christmas Day was the only time you could see the horizon from the Dunlop flyover in Birmingham, because the air was too filthy the rest of the year.
No smoke, no acid rain, no toxic pollution or dust from those sources.
I am old enough to remember when Christmas Day was the only time you could see the horizon from the Dunlop flyover in Birmingham, because the air was too filthy the rest of the year.
Look on the bright side, it may be the quickest way to get rid of Musk.
Strawman.
Curious use of the word "only."
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That's never you, you lying b'stard!
I saw a piece by the physicist Neil de Grasse Tyson, about alien intelligence and human space flight.
Take a ball about a foot in diameter.
The ISS orbits about an 1/8 inch above the surface.
If an alien (having travelled many light years) saw us, they'd think we were laughable.
Space-faring?
