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6 hours ago, alittlebitfrench said:
Electric cars are the savior of humanity. Repeat after me.
The most dumb human invention ever made after betamax….IMHO.
But peeps will fall it.
It will buff out!
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Hello those that may remember me, crikey tight restrictions logging in but still an awful site, it must take some skill to make the website forum as bad as this when the ease at which others operate.
Anyway how are people?
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Still whining about wind power? From your link wind power is 20% of France's current energy supply equal to the nuclear 20% also being supplied. Only one doesnt produce nasty waste for 3-400 years. Might as well get used to it renewables are only going to increase.
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4 hours ago, Harnser said:
Diesel is the fuel of the future.
How can you power a big tractor or 400 hp combine, maize or bean harvester with batteries or the big white hope of the greens - hydrogen - totally impractical.
But you dont drive one so the point is? The majority drive cars and not that far usually. Only occasionally going across country and having to stop for comfort breaks allows a top up.
Hydrogen isnt green, it produces Nox when burnt. It takes 5 times as much electricty to produce so may as well power 5 cars.
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6 hours ago, Ken said:
At least a good deal of 'hope' anyway!! Personally I have no preference regarding petrol or electric but I do have a preference with regards getting where I want to go and at the moment electric doesn't fulfil that.
I take with a pinch of salt all the claims, for and against, regarding the environment. My brain (such as it is) tells me that electric cars, with production and use, are as polluting as a petrol or diesel car. An electric car has to travel an incredible number of miles in its lifetime to break even regarding pollution. Given the problems with generating electricity and the lack of 'electric' stations I feel sure petrol (diesel) is still the best.
And no amount of data will convince you otherwise so no point in saying anymore.
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Just like old men.?
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It would be really nice of someone to post similar info about France don't you think?
The thread was kicked off about UK, all I did was post actual readings to show wind does work as do other green renewables. Plenty of wind turbines across France, how well are they doing and other renewables?
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Offshore WIND: UK Offshore Wind Pipeline Now at 86 GW | Offshore Wind.
https://www.offshorewind.biz/2022/03/22/uk-offshore-wind-pipeline-now-at-86-gw/ -
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ALBF, you turned left to Petersfield when you were turning right to Canterbury?
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I think you'll find that is how You started the topic, in the UK ......
I can't comment wheather French turbines are sighted in the best places for electricity generation but you can't condemn a technology that consistently produces clean non polluting, low emission power.
54% wind power this morning.
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I get mine from the UKnational gridESO app on my phone. The figures I posted are reality as they publish it, can't comment if they publish lies but why would they?
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Wind only 42% this morning with 36% gas and 12% nuclear doing most of the work this morning.
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46% wind, 15%nuclear, 15%gas + others making up the difference, still waiting for the wind to crap out.
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12 hours ago, anotherbanana said:
Windmills provide targets for Spanish nutters on horseback and jobs for retired miners.
45% wind, 17% nuclear, 12% gas this morning, source National Grid
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Sorry I thought I made it clear on a previous post, the national grid.
Don't blame a technology for the miss-management by the human part of the equation.
UK currently running on 50% wind power, 15% nuclear, 15% gas + others making up the difference.
Whether you like it or not decarbonisation of energy is happening.
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Don't blame a technology for the miss-management by the human part of the equation.
UK currently running on 50% wind power, 15% nuclear, 15% gas + others making up the difference.
Whether you like it or not decarbonisation of energy is happening.
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2 minutes ago, Ken said:
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3 minutes ago, Ken said:what to do with all these batteries at life end, please don't say recycle
Why not, does it not suit your argument? They will be recycled. Facilities already exist but the bloody batteries are lasting longer than expected so not very busy. If we dont recycle them I suppose we could store them next to the long lived nuclear waste.
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2 hours ago, Harnser said:
Once again your irrational assumptions are emphasised.
You need to read what is actually going on with regard to radioactive waste recycling and disposal.
https://www.orano.group/en/unpacking-nuclear/all-about-radioactive-waste-in-france
The cost of nuclear generated electrical power compared to renewables is cheaper, because with nuclear it is not necessary to provide an equivalent backup power source which has to be despatchable when the wind fails or clouds cover the sun, which means that the backup power source has to be kept running and hot but ready to deliver - it's called "spinning reserve". So every gigawatt of renewable power needs a gigawatt of non-renewable backup power running in the background!
Thank you, you saw my question marks, that was indicating I wanted a response and the link showed how efficient
the nuclear power is in france and how well they recycled some of the components.
The worrying bit is the 200 grams of long lived waste per person. Thats a 300 year half life and stored in caves and old mine workings. 67 million people in france x 200 grams is still quite a lot yes, 13,400,000 kg of long lived waste, per year.
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2 hours ago, Ken said:
I wonder if I am almost alone in thinking that this car battery feeding into the national grid idea is beyond ridiculous. To my mind it is the thoughts of a child fantasising without any real thought as to how or even if it can be accomplished. It seems any idea, no matter how stupid, is jumped on by gullible people wanting a 'miracle'! There are countless ideas out there ranging through 'windmills, bio fuels, solar, tidal schemes and many others none of which go anywhere near solving the energy crisis. Grid supply from cars is the latest ridiculous idea and which, incidentally, no one has said where the electricity will come from in the first place to charge all the car batteries!!.
France is being dragged back into nuclear because it is the only clean and reliable source of energy available. We don't see the 'bogyman,' propaganda anymore about how bad nuclear is because even politicians can now see that pandering to the 'eco-warriors' is going to bring disaster. Nuclear is the only way in my view and I strongly suspect Germany regrets going down the knee jerk route of shutting them down. European countries are returning to the fold i.e; Nuclear. The sooner it is done the better.
No Ken, I don't believe you are alone, bound to be lots more old men who think as you do. The electricity is generated during off peak times such as overnight to then be utilised during peak times. Such as the Octopus agile tariff that alows people with PV solar and batteries to sell their electricity back to the grid when the price is preferential and buy electricty to recharge batteries when lower cost overnight as their needs require. Some may call it intelligent use of resources. This can be near instantaneous use of available electricity to iron out peaks as opposed to powering up a power station when not really required. Several times last year the grid paid people on these systems to take the electricity so EV' were charged and credits added to their accounts. Not saying we wont have nuclear to provide the bulk but at present the UK uses a lot of gas to produce electricity although when the weather is favorable about 45% of the UK is powered from renewables. Several times last year the grid was entirely powered renewable electricity.I get these notifications from signing up to the national grid website and looking at the phone app. Just checked an currently the UK is running on 62% renewable and 17% nuclear, gas and others making up the difference.
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By less good at preventing transmission of covid do you mean next to no effect on transmission? Even in Israel where a big number have had 4 jabs it is not stopping transmission.
Reduces symptoms thats all so not really a vaccine at all.
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It is not an irrational fear, yes compared to filthy conventional power stations much better. Do we still dump the waste at the bottom of the oceans? The phenominal cost of building them and decommissioning at the end?
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It is doubtful going forward that lithium will feature in stationary batteries. That was Tesla's eary stuff, now they are using LFP and home storage is likely to be a different chemistry again. For those that think the UK plan is shabby and cheap, I hope France doesn't plan a wonderful new power station in your back yard! Yes we need a mix of both going forward but reducing the number and the cost and the impact can only be a good thing.
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