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By *I Two OP Couple
over a year ago
all around |
"Are they blowing off the cobwebs or have they all been demolished
I think they have all been demolished- all fossil fuels are heavy pollutants. "
Principals won't provide heat and food |
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By *rFunBoyMan
over a year ago
Longridge |
"Are they blowing off the cobwebs or have they all been demolished"
Recycled into hard-core!!
There are currently three active coal-fired power stations operating in the United Kingdom.
They have a total generating capacity of 4.52GW - Strangely, non near Eastleigh.
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By *rFunBoyMan
over a year ago
Longridge |
I was quoted 57p/kw Elec on a 2 year yesterday.. these prices are calculated over expected prices over the period.
It has been accepted October is at least 40% increase on top of the 54% in April, so mind boggles what next year is going to be on Capped rates.. |
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By *ercuryMan
over a year ago
Grantham |
"Are they blowing off the cobwebs or have they all been demolished
Recycled into hard-core!!
There are currently three active coal-fired power stations operating in the United Kingdom.
They have a total generating capacity of 4.52GW - Strangely, non near Eastleigh.
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Radcliffe On Trent is often producing when I drive past, although the coal mountain there is being taken away by train, ready for imminent decommissioning. |
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By *appyPandaMan
over a year ago
Kilkenny, but Dublin is more fun |
"Are they blowing off the cobwebs or have they all been demolished
I think they have all been demolished- all fossil fuels are heavy pollutants.
Principals won't provide heat and food"
And an increasingly inhospitable world with climates that become more and more unpredictable won't be providing enough food either.
We've been lucky enough the last few decades with the ocean absorbing most of the excess heat, but things are starting to accelerate now. |
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By *ackal1Couple
over a year ago
Manchester |
I don’t know what everyone is complaining about. Dividends and share prices over the last thirty years have been great.
Who needs to invest when they are making so much Wonga?
All good and will secure our energy future according to the very clever parliamentarians. Hmmmmm |
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By *appyPandaMan
over a year ago
Kilkenny, but Dublin is more fun |
"I don’t know what everyone is complaining about. Dividends and share prices over the last thirty years have been great.
Who needs to invest when they are making so much Wonga?
All good and will secure our energy future according to the very clever parliamentarians. Hmmmmm "
Reality doesn't really care about dividends, share prices or the imaginary economy dreamed up by a species of still primitive ape with tribalistic tendencies that advanced rapidly on this ancient planet since the end of the last ice age and convinced itself that the universe revolved around it.
I'm not saying humans are evil. We're incredible for advancing so much due to our innate curiosity and a capability for deep social bonds and ability to work together that allowed our civilisations to flourish once things were stable enough where agriculture could begin. I just honestly think we advanced too quickly without really knowing the true costs of the rapid advancement that's happened in the last hundred or so years.
Our whole existence as a species capable of complex civilisation has been about 0.0000022% of the total lifespan of this earth. |
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8 billion ppl on the planet but if we stand any chance of survival we need to lose half. Judging by the level of intelligence of most idiots on tik tok and similar media crap I'd say it's achievable. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"8 billion ppl on the planet but if we stand any chance of survival we need to lose half. Judging by the level of intelligence of most idiots on tik tok and similar media crap I'd say it's achievable. "
Talk to that Lad in Russia. He has a plan. |
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By *appyPandaMan
over a year ago
Kilkenny, but Dublin is more fun |
"No U turns now, the planet is more important than us humans."
Don't lose too much hope. Regardless of what happens, the planet will continue with us or without, and life finds a way to flourish. We've had many mass extinction events in the past but life in all its splendor came back, and it will again even if we let things deteriorate to the point that our extinction happens.
It's definitely sad to see the remarkable and beautiful ecosystems around us that may be no more, but new ones will replace them eventually, and even flourish in our abandoned dead cities and towns |
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By *ovebjsMan
over a year ago
Bristol |
Forget worrying about the climate change, the nutter in Russia has put any efforts back decades with all the carbon released into the atmosphere and it will be shed loads more to rebuild a whole country.
Drill for oil and frack away were fucked now anyway  |
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By *rFunBoyMan
over a year ago
Longridge |
"Are they blowing off the cobwebs or have they all been demolished"
They've been running today, 3GW Coal at 4pm ready for tea time I suspect. Gas was 20GW all day..
Currently coal 0.83GW, Gas 14.31GW |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I did see a news item that Britain's power stations are in desperate need of replacing. The new Chinese station is being built in the south but I don't know how much percentage /area it will supply, the whole southeast of uk?
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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago
West Wales |
"I did see a news item that Britain's power stations are in desperate need of replacing. The new Chinese station is being built in the south but I don't know how much percentage /area it will supply, the whole southeast of uk?
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Where in the south? The Bradwell in Essex site earmarked hasn’t even had the ground fully tested yet & the locals are still fighting not to have it.
It’s also still twenty years away even if it’s forced on them.
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By *appyPandaMan
over a year ago
Kilkenny, but Dublin is more fun |
"Forget worrying about the climate change, the nutter in Russia has put any efforts back decades with all the carbon released into the atmosphere and it will be shed loads more to rebuild a whole country.
Drill for oil and frack away were fucked now anyway "
This current civilisation so focused on the growth of imaginary wealth, constant consumerism, global supply chains that are taken for granted and living at such an unsustainable scale is most likely fucked, but that's not to say humanity is.
We can adapt and live past this era where our whole norm is pure lunacy if things don't get too drastic, and maybe prosper once again in a century or two after our collapse, but only if the conditions are liveable and not remove our capability for agriculture.
Regardless, life will go on. Our whole existence has been the most brief flicker of time here on this ancient planet, so if we're gone, we're gone. |
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By *bernathCouple
over a year ago
Gloucestershire |
Energy security and energy independence, that’s what we go for!
Coal, Oil, Gas - prices that a dependent on global demand, volatile, in countries with tyrants
Solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, tidal. Not part of global price fluctuations.
Energy efficiency and minor reductions in consumption is 1st step to being a self sufficient energy nation.
People who believe that we cannot do it are being lied to, because those who advocate continued use of these fossil fuels are lining their pockets now with high fuel prices and will continue to do so at our expense!
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By *rFunBoyMan
over a year ago
Longridge |
There is only one problem..
Do you trust the government to deliver?
Tont blah blah blah Blair first brought the term "Energy Security" in the wake of 9//11. "We need to reduce our reliance on Energy from other countries"
What did he do? Nothing
What did Cameron do? Nothing
What did May do? Nothing
What's Johnson done? Signed off a few windmills.
Right now at 1:24am, our Electricity supply is from 40% Gas fired generation. It has been steady for the last week 24 hours per day.
Seriously, don't trust the clueless clowns and look after yourself.
Spoke to a friend today, 30kw Solar array at home and about to install 80kw batteries.
I've just ordered another 3kw for home to complimentthe existing 6kw, currently have 10kw batteries and soon to upgrade to 40kw.
Today 4x Propane bottles arrives and a combination of the Solar, LPG means, if needed I can disconnect from the Grid if needed.
Do it by yourself if you believe the government will fail..
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