Re: Bulb energy
Think Ahead.....
So the UK has spent billions on 'Saving The Planet', reducing our CO2 and GHG emissions is such a marvellous way, crippling our electricity production and making us wholly dependant on International Gas imports.
And we have achieved... about a global 0.1 to 0.2% reduction in GHG production.
If we went carbon zero overnight that would result in less than a global 1% reduction..........
But no we keep flogging the 'Reduce emissions' and will end up like a 3rd world country with blackouts and brownouts rife outside the major cities to come.
Who to blame?
The NIMBY brigade who both protest that filling valleys with water for Hydro or building Nuclear is bad (and that out of sight offshore wind is a great idea - till the wind is too soft or too strong) or the environmentalists that block hydro and tidal as it may affect an orchid or a newt.
Billions spent for a global 0.2% (Best case) reduction in CO2 and GHG in UK (and most of that is made up of the drop in the carbon calculation of electricity due to 'renewables in the grid).
Want cheap(er) power and reduced bills? - Re-open the coal mines, and build 20 big coal PowerStation's next door to the mines.
As long as 50+% of the UK's power generation is based on imported gas we are all stuffed.
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