| Coal 09:39 - Apr 22 with 9186 views | exiled_dictator |
bo, not joe, cherrryll, andy or cashley, but coal.
as in miners.
as in arthur scargill, margaret thatcher.
that coal.
anyways,.....
it seems that britain no longer needs it.
or no longer uses it.
yesterday was the first coal-free day in britain since industrial revolution.
now that's impressive to me, as coal is a dirty fossil fuel that pollutes and kills.
so whats replaced coal?
well, according to gridwatch.co.uk, around half of british energy on friday came from natural gas, with about a quarter coming from nuclear plants.
wind, biomass, and imported energy were also used.
which is good, n'est pas?
even i have moved from a v8 powered vehicle to an electric one, and although someone somewhere has to make that electricity, its still much cheaper to run, and much more environmentally friendly.
ok, so the initial cost is a bit higher, but i keep my cars for years, pile on the miles, and pound them to pieces so when i am done with them, so is anyone else,
so this is a good thing, progress, and must me applauded.
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| Coal on 09:43 - Apr 22 with 9175 views | Toast_R |
Oil is still the big problem though. It's going to run out eventually and the world still relies on it for every day life. If that sh*t can be replicated synthetically in the future, it will change the world as we know it. | | | |
| Coal on 10:04 - Apr 22 with 9141 views | exiled_dictator |
indeed,
but too many people in power still have serious vested interests and make way too much money for alternatives to be developed or phased in.
yet.
when they're dead and gone, then maybe.
battery power research was deemed illegal and against god's will under the bush clan, because they are oil guys.
you will see in 10 years time how much better batteries are, and how much more range will be available from todays 300 miles to tens of thousands.
the idea of these oil men not being able to continue fleecing us, or even countries in the gulf simply running out of money, is just too much for some to perceive, so things are kept sort of as they are.
but as you say, things will change. | |
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| Coal on 10:18 - Apr 22 with 9131 views | bosh67 |
Hydrogen. That's the future. Has been for ages. | |
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| Coal on 10:23 - Apr 22 with 9125 views | exiled_dictator |
possibly, even though many refer to the hindenburg disaster, which was engineered by the us military, hydrogen could be the way.
although there are only a handful of cars that actually run on hydrogen, with like a dozen refilling stations, so still a looooooooong way to go. | |
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| Coal on 10:34 - Apr 22 with 9113 views | MrSheen |
Oil products have been synthesised from coal for nearly a century, and more recently from sugar and corn, but the real thing has always been cheaper, so far. No need to panic. | | | |
| Coal on 10:44 - Apr 22 with 9103 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
Fecking big magnifying glasses ... simples.... | |
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| Coal on 11:28 - Apr 22 with 9069 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
Well I knew that.. It was not me that burnt down that haystack in 1976
Honest guv | |
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| Coal on 11:42 - Apr 22 with 9050 views | BromleyHoop |
We are uniquely positioned to take advantage of wind and wave power in this country instead we insist on allowing the French and Chinese to fund our Nuclear power and to be worryingly reliant on purchasing gas from Russia. I know Nuclear power is cheap to produce but for me, long term, renewable energy is an absolute no brainer | |
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| Coal on 11:51 - Apr 22 with 9035 views | WrightUp5hit___ |
If the politicians weren't in thrall to the oil companies and not be forever chasing "sexy" solutions and spend a little more time actually trying to understand technology.
If the greens could open their minds a little
If the motor industry wasn't going the wrong way up a one way street.
We could spend a little more on improving drilling technology, researching better heat exchangers and steam turbines and be enjoying the benefits of more energy than we could ever exhaust.
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| Coal on 12:00 - Apr 22 with 9028 views | exiled_dictator |
now just stop that bolshevism right now, laddie.
just by taxing our hard earned money, the government has the god given right to spend it how the devil it wishes.
and if giving our hard taxed money to the froggies, the chinks and the commies is what they want to do, who are you to question it?
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| Coal on 13:23 - Apr 22 with 8975 views | Boston |
Also works well with Ants and other small creatures. | |
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| Coal on 14:16 - Apr 24 with 8836 views | R_from_afar |
Great point re. wind and solar. Tidal power also has huge potential in the UK; the Cardiff Bay scheme alone could produce almost as much power as Hinckley C but more reliably, more safely and at a much lower cost plus it would have a much longer working life. Nuclear power was once expected to be a very cheap option but history has shown that the cost keeps on rising whereas renewables tend to get cheaper. Hinckley C, if the design can ever be built (that design has never been succesfully completed) will produce some of the most expensive energy the world has ever seen. Onshore wind is now the cheapest source of new energy.
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| Coal on 15:05 - Apr 24 with 8792 views | kensalriser |
Does it matter?
Humankind is so destructive and so stupid that it will eventually suffocate in its own filth and take down most of the rest of life with it.
Yours misanthropically,
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| Coal on 15:13 - Apr 24 with 8764 views | Boston |
Personally, I blame the white people. | |
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| Coal on 15:29 - Apr 24 with 8747 views | isawqpratwcity |
The Industrial Revolution was proudly British. | |
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| Coal on 16:45 - Apr 24 with 8716 views | TacticalR |
There was an article a couple of weeks explaining ago why Trump's plan to repeal the Clean Power Plan won't create many coal jobs. In short, while repealing the plan might slow the decline in coal consumption, the beneficiaries would be the more productive open cast mines in Wyoming and Montana rather than the older mines of Pennsylvania and West Virginia where Trump campaigned.
Donald Trump’s power plan: Why US coal jobs are not coming back
https://www.ft.com/content/7dd52826-13a8-11e7-80f4-13e067d5072c
Also available as a (free) podcast: Why Trump can’t bring back US coal jobs
https://overcast.fm/+FaSRTuphU | |
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| Coal on 22:35 - Apr 24 with 8596 views | BromleyHoop |
A plan to build a £1.1bn Island on the Dogger Bank in the North Sea harvesting wind and wave powers is hugely exciting. Although it's a joint UK, Dutch and German plan, so not sure how that works post Brexit. [Post edited 24 Apr 2017 22:39]
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| Coal on 23:29 - Apr 24 with 8551 views | FredManRave |
Are you suggesting it could work on Ant and Dec?!
They'd end up in the Special Bairns Unit. [Post edited 24 Apr 2017 23:29]
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| Coal on 09:00 - Apr 25 with 8474 views | Metallica_Hoop |
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| Coal on 11:04 - Apr 25 with 8415 views | Metallica_Hoop |
'Metallization of hydrogen' Sounds like the ultimate space rock concept album. | |
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