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Burning gas isn’t much better than burning coal IMO. Fossil fuel, limited supply and it’s very expensive - it isn’t a magic bullet by a long way - look at the price of electricity in SA where it is used extensively.Quote:
Originally Posted by DiscoMick
Spot on...Quote:
Originally Posted by Eevo
We have a huge amount of gas and burning it halves emissions compared with coal.
I already have an estimate for the cost of going off grid - about $18k in our case. The longer we wait, the cheaper the batteries become. Maybe next year, after some other priorities.
Re the UK. NO it isn't.Quote:
Is that true?
Are you aware that 4 previously coal fired power stations in UK owned by DRAX now burn wood chips that they import from the USA and are considered renewable, as the trees will grow back ( in 50 years).
This is just a dodge to be considered "renewable" and they are cutting down whole forests to feed the power stations.
Regards Philip A
Everywhere I drive there are signs up protesting against coal seam gas.....who will win in the end?? Maybe we don’t have access to as much gas as we think.Quote:
Originally Posted by DiscoMick
I’m not sure there can be enough renewables to switch 100%.
Given nobody wants nuclear in their back yard, coal is getting a hard time and so is gas. What’s the options
Solar and Wind??
To make solar and wind farms takes a lot of resources out of the ground.....is there enough??
Last Saturday there was one massive blade off a wind generator on a trailer parked up on the hi-way.......I could only imagine the resources that went into getting the blade to where it was.......how long before we get a return to the environment?? Will we ever get a positive return??
Either way I’ll still chip away doing what I can to help the world out......but i reckon it’s beyond the point of return and I don’t think they will slow up the effects on the planet as it’s ****ed.
They are cheeky buggers arnt they.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipA
But they hit over 15gw in wind alone the other day, around 36% of demand in winter, on a cold blustery day. A record that will be broken when they switch on the largest offshore wind farm in the world, perhaps next week.
World’s largest wind farm to begin production this week in UK | RenewEconomy
That's just one project, at step 1 of 4. It will more than quadruple is capacity over the coming years.
You have to admit, they are going for it!
Unlike the poor soggy sods all jam packed into the UK, we have wind AND SUN!
Also, they truck much of their garbage to Amsterdam to be burned there to make electricity,
although that may have to stop becauae of Brexit. Will they burn it in the UK instead?
After brexit they might aswell stuff it in the channel tunnel.Quote:
Originally Posted by DiscoMick