Warming up
- Captain Haddock
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22 September 2021 10:38372012to fracking yet?
I know we're meant to be phasing it out BUT wouldn't you rather have it produced from our vast reserves rather than that nice Mr Putin having us over a barrel.
Though apparently I seem to remember that Kent is such a magical place with its coal mines and aquifers that unlike the rest of the planet it's geologically impossible - unless, of course you talk to any engineer in the oil industry.
Or nuclear?
No Co2 production and chugging away 24/7 unlike the offshore bat shredders and we were happy enough to import Froggie nuclear energy until the Ashford transformer (and remember it was meant to be an exchange of electricity - except it never happened as the Froggies always had more power than us!) caught fire.
SO glad all the demonstrations against fracking and nuclear power worked.
Meanwhile Top Tip.
Save yourself thousands of pounds on insulating your property (which obviously the Government should have paid for) by putting on an extra jumper.
Apparently it's worked for millennia.The Gov likes this"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - 22 September 2021 10:45372013maybe consider geothermal?
or buy it from Iceland? - Captain Haddock
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22 September 2021 10:5837201498% of electric power in Norway is provided by hydro which we are importing via the longest submarine power cable in the world.
(Which is why 54 % of new cars in Norway are electric)
A cable to Iceland? Get real.
N.B. it's due to fracking that the USA is not only self sufficient but a net exporter of energy post Nov 2019.
The sand peasants no longer have them over a barrel - of oil?"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - 22 September 2021 11:37372017Captain Haddock wrote:98% of electric power in Norway is provided by hydro which we are importing via the longest submarine power cable in the world.
(Which is why 54 % of new cars in Norway are electric)
A cable to Iceland? Get real.
N.B. it's due to fracking that the USA is not only self sufficient but a net exporter of energy post Nov 2019.
The sand peasants no longer have them over a barrel - of oil?
There is a proposal for a cable link between Iceland and UK, though I think the idea has been parked for a year or so
Also proposal for a wind farm based off the south coast of Iceland. Apparently, it would create 15,000 jobs in the north east of England
- Captain Haddock
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22 September 2021 11:43372019Notwithstanding UK could keep base load going with nuclear and surges with gas provided by fracking to support solar and wind. What's not to like?"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - Captain Haddock
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22 September 2021 11:55372020How I Wrote Elastic Man wrote:maybe consider geothermal?
or buy it from Iceland?
FWIW suggested ground sourced heat pumps for new Leisure Centre at Whitfield.
Could see eyes glazing over as mad Councilor talked about stuff that many did not understand?
Stone me, they work in Jocksville and the technology is not difficult?"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - 22 September 2021 12:49372022Just to get back to the facts, here's why you shouldn't listen to governments ministers (or fishy posters for that matter) as far as the current situation is concerned. If you don't want to watch, I'll paraphrase. We are where we are because of market ideology f**k ups.
https://www.facebook.com/LBC/videos/221808083319244 - Button
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1 April 2022 08:11375947Now here's a protest group I hadn't heard of before: Just Stop Oil. Must be braverer than Insulate Britain to be sitting on roads in this weather. Anyway, their thinking is (Germans please take note):
"The Just Stop Oil coalition is demanding an end to the government's genocidal policy of expanding UK oil and gas production and is calling on all those outraged at the prospect of climate collapse and suffering from the cost-of-living crisis to stand with us. Ordinary people can no longer afford oil and gas, it's time to just stop oil."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-60951403(Not my real name.) - 1 April 2022 10:41375953We will need it or give in to Russia.