I notice dopey has chucked in a link to the Government white paper again, without demonstrating their understanding of the implications or the detail within it. If he did understand it, he wouldn't have chosen an ironic comment about coal to try to bluff his way through. The biggest fools are often the ones that don't realise that they are idiots. Taking just a few of the issues it contains, the production methods include a version of the process used to produce towns gas, which was predominantly hydrogen, and was replaced as it was seen as not just a dirty product, but a dirty process, and has left a legacy of contaminated sites. Okay the newer version will be cleaner, but it is still dirty as well as resource and energy intensive. Another key measure in the white paper is the proposal for blending. This is the addition of hydrogen to the natural gas network. Due to the properties of the gas, this means that a larger volume will be required, yet the larger volume will actually contain less energy and be more costly to produce and to burn and increase local nitrogen dioxide emissions. It is effectively a scheme to produce a lesser product for a higher cost, and it is little surprise that it is the gas network owners that have pushed this or that they have met strong resistance to getting it trialed in various places. There are also implications for agriculture, as they are currently one of the biggest consumers due to the use in fertiliser etc. The increased demand will have a knock on impact for food prices and quality. There are many other flaws that can be flagged in various aspects of that white paper, not just the issue they thought they were responding to when dopey posted it in clear ignorance of the content.
Despite repeatedly showing they're pretty much clueless on the topic, and as dopey bristles at the thought I may actually have some understanding, here's a link to the views of some other people on the paper he lays such store by, despite avoiding any comment on the detail himself. It's interesting to note that their whole argument is centred on their trust of this tory government. Alex Lee, a Friends of the Earth Scotland climate campaigner, described the government’s rush to embrace hydrogen as “foolish”. “Green hydrogen made from renewables is inefficient and more expensive than existing renewable technologies like electric heat pumps for our homes and electrifying public transport systems. Blue hydrogen from fossil fuels is just another oil industry trick to keep us locked into fossil fuels with the promise of dubious carbon capture and storage technology.” “The UK’s hydrogen strategy, in its current form, simply does not add up,” said Arjun Flora, from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). “We are already struggling to meet renewables growth targets and our reliance on fossil gas is crippling the economy. This strategy will make both problems worse, at the expense of UK households and taxpayers.” The UK currently has around 14GW of offshore wind, and is aiming for 50GW of offshore wind by 2030 (a target experts are already warning the UK is likely to miss). If the UK meets its 10GW hydrogen ambition with green hydrogen production, the hydrogen production would consume around 50 per cent of offshore wind capacity. But there are serious doubts whether blue hydrogen can be part of a truly low-carbon energy strategy by 2030. This is because no blue hydrogen projects exist at scale today, while trial projects that currently exist have not managed to capture more than 50 per cent of the carbon dioxide produced. The UK’s definition of “low-carbon hydrogen” is equivalent to around 75 per cent of emissions being captured; but for blue hydrogen to be legitimately low carbon, well over 90 per cent of emissions must be captured. Analysis shared with Spotlight by Frederick Andre Wessel, from the consultancy Rystad, shows that 5GW of blue hydrogen capacity could produce 1.3 million tonnes of hydrogen annually. For this to be legitimately low carbon, it would in turn likely require more than 10 million tonnes of CO2 to be captured, according to Wessel, which is equivalent to around a quarter of the entire volume of CO2 captured globally by CCS in 2022. https://www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/sustainability/energy/2023/03/uk-hydrogen-strategy-does-not-add-up#:~:text=But there are serious doubts,of the carbon dioxide produced.
Not sure how they can sue the Government and expect to win. As at the end of the day Parliament is the highest court.
Labour are crowing about their landslide victory in Rotherglen and Hamilton West but the turnout was low and they actually won big because of tactical voting as Conservative voters wanted to bloody the SNP’s nose while SNP voters stayed home. Will the result be replicated across Scotland in a General Election? That would wipe out Humza Yousaf’s Party at Westminster. When Tony Blair brought about devolution, he knew what his Party was doing. In Wales, the Nationalist vote for Plaid Cymru was never going to challenge Labour, so people in Wales have been subjected to failure in perpetuity. In Scotland, Labour initially held sway but the Nationalists built their way up to a borderline majority, although currently the SNP need to be propped up by the hard Left Greens. If the SNP vote collapses at the next Holyrood election then Scotland will be back to Labour failure. Perhaps the SNP should get rid of Yousaf now that he has been on the cover of Time magazine.
It's a bit mean calling pie(noguts) link to a report of over 1,000 pages 'long boring bits', especially when like pie(noguts) they clearly haven't read it. Why do the dopey ****s keep doing it to themselves.
It is difficult to see what grounds the tobacco industry can have for litigation given that all the government proposes to do is change the minimum age. As the law is virtually unenforced as the police pick and choose what laws to enforce these days, this is just a hollow soundbite that Labour are annoyed they did not think of first.
Yeah mate all those Tories voting Labour obviously. By-elections almost always have low turnouts and the sort of old gits who still somehow vote Tory are more likely than other groups to bother. 1200 votes out of over 30,000 in an electorate of about 80,000 doesn’t bode well. They’ll be on less than Garry Cooke who managed six votes soon.
The rush to EVs has resulted in a series lack of joined up thinking. The huge batteries that EVs have make the cars a lot heavier. They will all make vans a lot heavier. Can anyone remember word of any study being conducted that has determined how many bridges are going to need reinforcing to handle all this extra weight? And what about those old multi-storey car parks? As yet there has been no word on when the National Grid is going to be massively upgraded to get all this free electricity from the North Sea wind turbines to the parts of the country where people live; and who is going to pay for it. When the wind does not blow there is supposedly going to be no oil and gas so the lights go out. As it is the wind turbine operators get paid to not put free electricity into the Grid when supply exceeds demand because there is no effective way to store the free electricity (yet).
There have been studies into individual car parks, and most of the older ones have shown serious issues associated with the increased weight of EV's.
Supposedly your average EV will go five or six hundred miles between charges. If you let the battery run flat enough that you need to stop at motorway services then you should have planned your journey better and you are going to get fleeced by the tax man – the VAT at the motorway services will be 20 per cent. VAT on domestic energy bills is only 5 per cent. Of course you might be forced to charge your EV somewhere miles from home because the alternative, if you live in an old terraced house street for example, will be to dangle a power cable out the window across the pavement to your car. There is an old boy living a couple of streets from me that has a Mercedes EV and he parks in his allotted parking space and runs the cable out from his ground floor flat through the communal building door to the car, so nobody needs the security pin code to access the building while he is charging. I bet his neighbours are ecstatic.
The bulk won't come close to achieving that distance on a motorway in winter. Wait until the ambulance chasers have someone trip over the wire. They're also liable to be in breach of electrical safety regs too.
I think Lieutenant Commander Bill Boaks is the record holder with 5 votes in Glasgow Hillhead in 1982.
Wow name calling from the only self proclaimed adult in the room and yet he wants to be taken seriously. Again showing what a gift he is
