SteamyTea

You are just a (expletive deleted)ing troll and this is really not the place for you.

I have just been chatting to a mate's partner. They where banging on about Overseas Aid and we need to stop it. If we stopped OA then our Navy would have been ready to send boats to the Gulf. I asked them how much our Military Budget was, they had no idea, asked what the OA budget was, again they had no idea. Then they blamed the Boat People, then the Muslims, then the two tier policing, ended up blaming the local council for not sorting out a pothole in their road. I kept saying that they are reading the wrong newspapers and they need to look up some numbers, rather than spout an opinion. The response to that was 'listen to me, listen to me' When it got to the government not allowing for more drilling in the North Sea, I had to say 'you don't keep up with the news do you.' These (expletive deleted) are allowed to vote, and it is not going to be for Bin Face. So rather than spout opinion about a subject, get some data, then come back and state your case. If you don't, you are just spouting opinions, and as this thread has shown, the opinion spouters refuse to find any data, in fact it is worse than that, they expect others to find it, then say the data is wrong. That is the policy of time wasters and internet trolls.

That was your question. Then you change the question. And changed it again. If you stuck to the original question, you may get helpful answers, it is then up to you to verify the data source, people on here are not your secretaries. I think what you want to know, and this is pure speculation on my behalf, is 'when will my individual electricity bill be lower, in nominal terms, that it has ever been?' That I cannot help you with as it is a nonsense question.

It may show that electricity is not that expensive in reality. But you have to do your own research, you will not believe it otherwise.

Well they are going to allow more drilling and extraction, so should be next Tuesday. We will see unquestionably next tuesday if it happens.

When Susie was a striper, s stripper Susie was She said "Oh Ah, I lost my bra, I left my knickers in the car"

Go to the ONS and get they data sets for household wages and electricity prices. Plot them and see what they show. It is easy enough to do.

My magic trick I do at parties is similar. But rather that a hat and produce a rabbit or dove. I put my hand down my shorts and produce to hares.

How much does it cost to get a chainsaw blade resharpened? Use that as a benchmark.

It is even worse when you lie to yourself, and then believe it.

Does that include the shielding ?

Good idea. Can get the National Trust to do it, they own most of the best carparks down here. Most are just fields, not gird connection, and charge £6 a visit. Take my local carpark in PZ, be nice to cover it over as it does rain a lot here. Now, the interesting bit. We often get 100 MPH winds, with gusts over 120 MPH, so would need a complete redesign. Deep files driven, a very sturdy roof, and maybe a half MW capacity. We could take the build costs totally out of the car park charges. So rather than £1.20 for 3 hours, let them charge £8/hour. Seems cheap to me. When will people realise that the easiest solution is the best. Well I have know idea of your age, but your understanding of complex issues, and your total denial of evidence, suggests you are. So you have summed yourself up nicely.

Some things do not scale well. The lead shielding will be the same thickness, so a (expletive deleted) off big crane will be needed. Why do people think that local generation (at the few MW scale) is better when close to consumption ?

You have a serious problem with people, bordering on paranoia.

It is worth pointing out that we started the transition to low carbon generation nearly 2 decades ago. Apart from some very small scale wind farms, hobby PV and a bit of hydro, we had virtually nothing. Since the we have added 55 GWp if wind and solar. Now the name plate capacity if RE cannot be compared directly with thermal generation, but it contributed close to 40% of our generation. It also contributed to our pumped storage as well. I have not looked at storage capacity in a while, but must be close to 1 GWh now. I cannot see any reason why we should not hit 90% low carbon generation by 2040, except if there is not the political will to do so. I think the political will is there, we tend to hear the naysayers more because they are the vocal minority, the majority says nothing. I am going to repeat what I said about cost. Wind and PV are the cheapest forms of, and it is coming in bold , NEW generation. It is not competing with the same contracts as legacy generation.

Cooling is a lot easier a mile deep under the artic ice caps.

Well according to some it is treated the same by 'the believers'

Yes please.

Here is a bit about uranium reserves. About 90 years worth at current usage. So if we doubled (globally) nuclear generation, about 50 years. Would be hard to build a facility when you know it will be hard to fuel it before it's end of life. https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/uranium-resources/supply-of-uranium

All I see is a man up a lift.

Shame I am work at the moment. When I studied RE we looked at all firms of electricity production. Nuclear, when generating is very low CO2 generation. The long term storage is a problem, mainly political, latest idea is to bury it in the Irish Sea mudstone. It may happen. There is a question mark over the security of uranium supplies, processing, transport and storage. Regarding the excess thermal energy heating the atmosphere, not really. But local heating is a problem, as is excess air temperature. A French reactor was on reduced power because it could not get enough cooling. All large thermal plants cab suffer from that. The main thing is to reduce the CO2e gasses and particulates. These are the main problems. CO2e gasses do not act like a blanket, depending on which model used to calculate, it really just allows more energy to be stored kinetically (temperature is the mean free path speed of molecules after all).

What has 4 legs and goes woof. There are rig and well fired everywhere. Kuwait had a lot.

And an Irishman won the Tour. Actually that was a year later.

We are still cleaning up after a reactor was shut down and restarted incorrectly. Buildings kill more birds.

Except we do.