Off Topic Starmer/ Reeves: last man standing

Maybe countless scientists around the world are wrong then. I’ll bow to yours Trump and Farage’s superior knowledge about the subject.

At least Trump and Farage have an excuse for their ignorance given the people who fund them.

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ed-to-prevent-climate-breakdown-warn-experts/

 

Hmm, my brother and his mates,when they were teenagers , as a wind-up to their teachers signed a paper that said the earth is flat.

What does science know huh...

An acknowledged point is, yes transition to, by and large, eliminate carbon emissions... has to managed and afforded

. Rather than import gas whilst we build up our renewableas I would frack!

 

The only sensible way is to use gas, nuclear, and wind. But we have too much wind capacity now, and virtually no storage.Wind producers are often paid not to produce electricity because it would affect the grid .

The only viable storage we gave is a fifty year old facility which pumps water up a hill in the night and releases it during the day. This is mainly used to manage demand and balance the grid, a critical issue which is quite understandably not known about by most.

Battery storage will help a bit, but it is fantastically expensive, not working really even now, and will only ever provide back up four a few hours at most. The wind can and does fall for many days at a time,, usually in the cold winter months.

Cryogenic storage is by far the best bet. It works and could provide much longer back up. Only one is being built, and it it is being very badly hampered by competing QUANGOS. It is pretty established engineering work, but in the UK now, knocking on a door requires a hundred forms to satisfy multiple bureaucrats .

We have a lot of gas. Whatever happens, we will be using a lot of it for at least the next twenty or thirty years. It is insane to be importing so much at such a cost.