Impressed £67.5 billion... nope... 263 billion, and rising.

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Raven said:
Still... the Uk could be worse...

www.bbc.co.uk

Lützerath: German coal mine stand off amid Ukraine war energy crunch

Activists and police are facing off in Lützerath, where diggers plan to expand a giant coal mine.
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Don't think whataboutism helps tbh. I think we should be striving to be the best, not opening coal-for-export mines in Cumbria and backtracking on our committments.

We're supposed to be a "world leader" - that was lauded by the Tories as part of Brexit - that we could be a bright light that shows the way.

But it turns out we're still just scummy fucks like the rest of the world.
 
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www.theguardian.com

Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s

Oil company drove some of the leading science of the era only to publicly dismiss global heating
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I mean, it's no surprise. But why aren't our governments taking public control of these private companies?

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We don't have to arrest and prosecute the old and current leaders for crimes against humanity. We should just take these companies off them and run them for the public good until we can phase them out.

And yes. Fuck the shareholders. They've had plenty of warning that they're going to be left at some point with "stranded assets".
 
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This guy does some good videos on hidden road infrastructure, old curious stuff, etc.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eefz4qy-Mpw


That video is about a massive advertising board that was stuck up in Trafford about 5 years ago. It's astonishingly bright, a few people on the Manchester subreddit were talking about it recently.

I did some fag packet calculations based on similar products I found online. It's 17x17 metres (from the planning application) and I reckon it consumes between 60KW to 180KW of electricity, depending upon time of day (it'll be using more power in sunlight). 60,000 watts minimum, to advertise shoes or something. At one location. Highways authorities have no say in this matter. And our council, who declared a "climate emergency", approved it.
 
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Good on 'em:
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Greenpeace protesters board Shell platform bound for Shetland

Four activists board 52,000-tonne vessel north of Canary Islands and demand company ‘stop drilling – start paying’
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but they need to start shooting at tory ministers tbh.

It's life or death for lots of people, so it should be life or death for ministers continuing to greenlight new oil.
 
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Anyone been following this?

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Tiny radioactive capsule lost in Australian outback found by side of 1,400km stretch of road

Coin-sized radioactive device, missing for more than two weeks in WA, posed a significant public health risk
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

It boggles my mind that Rio Tinto could be so negligent.

Size of a ten cent piece, has a 20m exclusion zone around the site so contamination can be checked for. Shows how dangerous radioactive material really can be even in the tiniest amounts.
 
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As far as I'm aware - any electricity supplier on a CFD (which is how we've been auctioning wind farms off for years now) - pays excess profits above it's strike price directly to the government.

So last round - they get £39/mwh whether the price of electricity is 20p or a million quid - and if it's a million quid, all that excess goes to the government. So the government could easily use that excess to bring power price down, rather than use it as a tax on us whilst pointing at Ukraine.

What's more concerning than all this is the fact that oil and gas companies are posting record profits. Not the same profits with higher operating expenses - so it shows unequivocally that they're profiteering - massively.

If the average energy bill will be £3000 from April 2023, then the £250 of that which is excess windfarm stuff is also small change. Who should we be looking at for more than doubling their profits (and pushing the price of all energy up in the meantime)???

Oh yes. The oil companies.
 
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Seems a lovely economics lesson in action tbh.

Company sells a product which is becoming (artifically) more scarce which means the market price (which cannot be changed at all appearently) goes up massively. At the same time this company's costs haven't changed.

Doesn't sound like profiteering, sounds like fairly simple supply and demand. Whilst demand for O&G is going down slowly, it isn't going to disappear any time soon due to the lack of credible alternatives. In the meantime Supply has been massively constrained by events in the Ukraine and how expensive new O&G fields are to bring online.

Windfarm operators have made a pretty penny through all this as well - hence Hunt extending the Windfall Tax to wind operators as well.
 
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Gwadien said:
@Bodhi /other wood fire people, are you not at risk at this new fine thing? Do you measure your emissions?

www.bbc.co.uk

Log burner rule change in England could land users with £300 fines

The tightening of regulations may lead to criminal records for those flouting them, a new policy says.
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Not too concerned at this point as our log burner is less than 12 months old, and we only burn seasoned/kiln dried stuff (apart from the odd Coffee Log you can get from B & Q).

Pretty sure that for "smoke controlled" areas too, so big cities effectively. We're about a mile from Staffordshire countryside, and our neighbours all run them too.
 
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The problem with that @Embattle is that 'leccy is only 18% of our fuel.

We need wind and solar to provide about ten times what they currently do, but government has done fuck all about the grid even though we've known about the problem for decades.
 
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The problem with that @Embattle is that 'leccy is only 18% of our fuel.

We need wind and solar to provide about ten times what they currently do, but government has done fuck all about the grid even though we've known about the problem for decades.
 
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www.theguardian.com

China bans Japanese seafood after Fukushima wastewater release

Water containing radioactive tritium being pumped into Pacific via tunnel from Tepco plant, amid protests from China, South Korea and fishing communities
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What this is really about is the japanese government and tepco still having no credible plan to decomission the failed reactors 12 years on from the disaster. We still don't know what to do with it.

The treatment of the wastewater to remove radionucleides has been failing (they have to re-process 70% of it apparently). And it's not just tritium - it's also radioactive isotopes of carbon, iodine (that does accumulate in (particularly) the thyroid) and...

...Strontium-90.

Which as we all know, leads to:
Johnny Alpha...
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