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[Embattle]

New offshore windfarms push UK renewables to record

 

[fettoken]

@Scouse Don't know if you'd enjoy the cold but It'd be some bike adventure!

 

[Lamp]

Happy New Year

Naff fireworks everywhere.

Would be much more impressive to staple 700,000 fireworks to Theresa May's cabinet Tory MP lying bastards and light the fuse.

 

[Scouse]

Happy new year all!

I've woken with a *minging* hangover!

 

[Job]

New offshore windfarms push UK renewables to record

And still theyre no use at all.
But hey..one day they will be when we invent a 1000gw battery

 

[Scouse]

Define no use?

All the electricity they produce gets used.

 

[Job]

A pan European balancing grid, which is sort of being built, will help.

Its still far from perfect...they are half a technology.
But they look good and you can quote power outputs for the technically gullible.

 

[Job]

Define no use?

All the electricity they produce gets used.

No it doesnt..maybe 3% of it.

 

[caLLous]

No it doesnt..maybe 3% of it.

So, in your head, what happens to the other 97%?

 

[Gwadien]

I like Football.

I hate it's become a market.

And when you talk to football fans about it becoming a market they roll their eyes.

'Outrageous' cost to be football mascot

I was a mascot once, actually, I was in the programme 3 times, because 1st time it got snowed off and 2nd time we couldn't make it.

 

[Scouse]

No it doesnt..maybe 3% of it.

Link for proof?

I worked for 12 years in the energy generation industry and the engineers told me very clearly that they used all available wind and solar and simply turned down the rate of generation from other sources.

It's cheaper to use existing wind capacity than to leave it idle and burn gas or coal instead.

 

[Embattle]

While I can be critical of Wind Power, mainly due to a lack of affordable high capacity energy storage, I call BS on your 3% usage figure. One of the few figures to do with 3% implies that it is actually the energy wastage figure.

 

[Gwadien]

https://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/Efficiency_of_Wind_Energy

The energy efficiency of wind is better than the energy efficiency of coal. Only 29-37% of the energy in coal is converted to electricity and gas has nearly the same efficiency as wind as 32-50% of the energy in gas can be converted to electricity.

However, in terms of capacity factors, fossil fuels performed better than wind in the U.S. in 2016 according to U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

• Coal plants in the U.S. ran at 52.7% of their capacity.
• The capacity factor for gas plants was 56% in the US.
• Nuclear power had a capacity factor of 92.5%, according to EIA figures for non-fossil fuels.
• Hydro power's capacity factor was 38%.
• Wind power's capacity factor was 34.7%

 

[Job]

So, in your head, what happens to the other 97%?

Im glad you asked.
Thet quote plate rating.
So knock off 66%.

Then off that 33% only a tenth of that time is the power actually used to replace conventional generation..simply because load balance..demand etc rarely lines up with suitable wind speed.

Thats why we need storage.
Thet3s nothing wrong with wind power outside the fact that it only makes electricity and most of our energy use is directly fossil powered, of course that could be fixed with electric heating etc.

 

[Lamp]

Thinking about making my own fireworks. Well, one to start off with.

You need gunpowder apparently
To make that you need saltpeter

I thought you weren't allowed to buy saltpeter in the UK anymore. Just seen it on Amazon.co.uk £13 a kilo

 

[Job]

Well thats this forum on a watch list.

 

[Job]

So this is child poverty.

Ist world problems.

Children's bedroom photographs expose reality of UK poverty

 

[DaGaffer]

So this is child poverty.

Ist world problems.

Children's bedroom photographs expose reality of UK poverty

It's not often I agree with you but...yeah, the average Japanese family lives in spaces like this, and it's not exactly Victorian tenements is it? There was in interesting public event in Dublin a couple of months ago called Open House, which was a celebration of architecture (you got to tour fancy tech buildings like Facebook's offices and the Central Bank) but also Dublin's history, and we got to visit flats in Dublin that are just about to be demolished and the last tenants are getting ready to move out. These places are microscopic and although the families had made them as homey as possible, there had been families (and not single parents either) who'd been living in these places for generations. Add in all the people in well paid dev jobs in Dublin and London who are living six to a room because of insane rents and lack of housing and I don't think these photos are going to elicit that much sympathy.

 

[Job]

Except from the shocked middle classes.
OMG, but where does the nanny sleep?

 

[Job]

Its endelessy hyped..but Japan is actually having a go.

Using turbines and solar to make hydrogen...logistically a nightmare though I guess.
Hydrogen touted as clean energy | The Japan Times

 

[Jupitus]

Well thats this forum on a watch list.

Probably were already for some of your dodgy fucking comments.....

 

[Gwadien]

Grayling defends Brexit ferry contract

'Mr Grayling told the BBC he would make no apologies for "supporting a new British business".'

'The contract is one of three awarded to provide additional ferries between the UK and several European cities, to help ease the potential backlog.

Other contracted suppliers include France's Brittany Ferries and Danish shipping firm DFDS.'

??????????????????????

I wonder how the Government is related to this company.

 

[BloodOmen]

 

[Wij]

Grayling defends Brexit ferry contract

'Mr Grayling told the BBC he would make no apologies for "supporting a new British business".'

'The contract is one of three awarded to provide additional ferries between the UK and several European cities, to help ease the potential backlog.

Other contracted suppliers include France's Brittany Ferries and Danish shipping firm DFDS.'

??????????????????????

I wonder how the Government is related to this company.

Brother of a big Tory donor actually.

 

[Wij]

We knew that.

 

[Bodhi]

Grayling defends Brexit ferry contract

'Mr Grayling told the BBC he would make no apologies for "supporting a new British business".'

'The contract is one of three awarded to provide additional ferries between the UK and several European cities, to help ease the potential backlog.

Other contracted suppliers include France's Brittany Ferries and Danish shipping firm DFDS.'

??????????????????????

I wonder how the Government is related to this company.

Seabourne Freght have been looking at Ramsgate - Oostend for a while now, see below article from April last year

Thanet council confirms talks with Ostend-Ramsgate ferry operator hopeful

 

[Gwadien]

Sort out me mates, and fuck the workers.

Grayling blames rail fare hike on unions

 

[Bodhi]

Sort out me mates, and fuck the workers.

Grayling blames rail fare hike on unions

View: https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1080370496577945600?s=19


Biggest scandal here is them using RPI rather than CPI.

 

[Gwadien]

View: https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1080370496577945600?s=19


Biggest scandal here is them using RPI rather than CPI.

They need to chuck out the rule book and experiment with prices, I would imagine if trains were more reasonable they would see much more traffic.

I can get to London on a coach for like £20 return, but if I'm looking at an off-peak train ticket you're looking at £100-120.

 

[Lamp]