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

[Embattle]

Well at least Coal got a mention, even if watered down.

My favourite comments come from certain developing countries trying to claim a share of something that'll pollute the planet even more.

Delhi shuts schools as it mulls ‘pollution lockdown’

Indian capital’s poor air quality would likely run until at least November 18 due to ‘low winds’.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[Scouse]

£96 billion for new rail routes. Thereabouts that to insulate every home in Britain. Just sayin'

 

[Embattle]

Individuals can't pay for their own rail lines to be built. Just sayin'

 

[Gwadien]

£96 billion though.

 

[Scouse]

£96 billion though.

Yep. And what we need is more trains, not warm houses and reduced energy use.

 

[Raven]

Change the goal posts! Gas is green now!

EU plans to label gas and nuclear energy 'green' prompt row

A European Commission proposal says the two energy sources are key to a green transition.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Wij]

View: https://twitter.com/DigiEconomist/status/1477420463886323712

 

[Raven]

Yeah, but it's very lucrative, so...

 

[Embattle]

Russia says ‘short-sighted’ EU has only itself to blame for energy crisis

‘Incorrect planning, short-term energy policy is a headache for European politicians, which they are trying to pass on to others,’ says deputy PM.

www.politico.eu

 

[Raven]

Dorset's green hydrogen project secures £6.5m funding

Solar energy and landfill gases will be used to produce green hydrogen at the site in Poole.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Scouse]

Dorset's green hydrogen project secures £6.5m funding

Solar energy and landfill gases will be used to produce green hydrogen at the site in Poole.

www.bbc.co.uk

Like, but a bit confused:

What's this all about?

Electricity from solar panels and existing landfill gases will be fed into an electrolyser with water to make green hydrogen

Green hydrogen is created from water. So why the landfill gases? What role do they play?



Edit: Ah. It's blue hydrogen. Greenwashing. The landfill gas (methane) is being burned to create the electricity to perform the electrolysis. So it's using fossil fuels to make hydrogen.

Fucking pile of shit tbh. And the fact that the Beeb hasn't done basic due diligence and still calls it green makes me think "fuck it - if the Beeb isn't going to get news right, then fuck 'em off and let sky news or whoever tell tell the lies we hear"...

 

[Raven]

You need power for electrolysis. That's how energy works. Energy in > energy out. How else do you think they will create it?

Yes, some methane is going to be burned, along with solar sourced energy. As opposed to just going into the atmosphere. Methane is far worse for the atmosphere than the CO2 and H2O that is produced by burning it.

Unless you have another solution for land fill methane seepage?

 

[Scouse]

You need power for electrolysis. That's how energy works. Energy in > energy out. How else do you think they will create it?

It's BLUE hydrogen.

If we're burning fossil fuels to make hydrogen it's not green hydrogen. Period. We need solar + battery storage if we're going to produce 24/7 - or we just produce hydrogen when the solar power provides the energy if we're going to call it Green.

If not - Blue. End of.

Don't know why you're pissed off about that.

Yes, some methane is going to be burned, along with solar sourced energy. As opposed to just going into the atmosphere. Methane is far worse for the atmosphere than the CO2 and H2O that is produced by burning it.

You're not telling me anything I don't already know. And I completely agree. But it means this project is blue hydrogen.

Unless you have another solution for land fill methane seepage?

It's been a point of annoyance of mine for more than 30 years when I did landfill audits as a during experience for a chemical company, before going to university full of idealism for the environment. We're not very good at dealing with landill methane and we're not putting in the effort to come up with proper solutions (other than burning it - which we need to stop doing).

But then, honest question: After COP26 do you think that the human race has chosen to do much other than "business as usual"?


Either way. It's blue. Not green. And blue = "not good enough". If you come second in the league you still didn't win. And we have to win.

Edit: But I agree, mixing it into natural gas is better than leakage. (There are methods of removal that stop seepage - they're being used to collect it to burn) - but whilst better it's still a solution that burns fossil fuel...

 

[Raven]

Gas is sustainable now...apparently...

Climate change: EU moves to label nuclear and gas as sustainable despite internal row

A highly controversial decision to class nuclear and gas power as "green" splits EU members.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Wij]

Gas is sustainable now...apparently...

Climate change: EU moves to label nuclear and gas as sustainable despite internal row

A highly controversial decision to class nuclear and gas power as "green" splits EU members.

www.bbc.co.uk

Germans love Putin’s gas.

(perves)

 

[Scouse]

Gas is sustainable now...apparently...

Climate change: EU moves to label nuclear and gas as sustainable despite internal row

A highly controversial decision to class nuclear and gas power as "green" splits EU members.

www.bbc.co.uk

We don't make it...

 

[Raven]

The whole system is fucked. I just hope we hold on long enough for the kids to be in charge.

 

[Raven]

View: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-60262733


100 mile range... OK for shunting, useless for distribution. Nice for marketing.

Was talking to a DHL chap yesterday, 60 mile range, loaded, on their local delivery vans. Also useless. Turn around is slower, costs actually go up (Vehicles off the road more)

EV is not the answer.

 

[dysfunction]

View: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-60262733


100 mile range... OK for shunting, useless for distribution. Nice for marketing.

Was talking to a DHL chap yesterday, 60 mile range, loaded, on their local delivery vans. Also useless. Turn around is slower, costs actually go up (Vehicles off the road more)

EV is not the answer.

No it's not but it appears to be the direction everything is going.
Unless you can get it charged as conveniently as filling up with petrol (not everyone can charge their car at home), it can be fully charged within 1-2 mins and it can last as long (or longer) as a tank of petrol.

If we can't get to that then we need green Hydrogen instead or some other tech.

 

[Scouse]

In that specific instance, an 18 mile journey done many times, it's a perfectly good answer.

 

[Gwadien]

View: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-60262733


100 mile range... OK for shunting, useless for distribution. Nice for marketing.

Was talking to a DHL chap yesterday, 60 mile range, loaded, on their local delivery vans. Also useless. Turn around is slower, costs actually go up (Vehicles off the road more)

EV is not the answer.

I'm sure there's plenty of scenarios where they can be used.

Bit like the leccy busses that do very short routes.

Although because of covid all those round here have gone and have been replaced by planet destroyer double decker beasts.

 

[Raven]

I know some of us are big fans of fossil fuels, but Fracking: UK's only shale gas wells to be sealed and abandoned

 

[Wij]

I know some of us are big fans of fossil fuels, but Fracking: UK's only shale gas wells to be sealed and abandoned

Would still make more sense than importing it until we can get off it tbh

 

[Scouse]

Would still make more sense than importing it until we can get off it tbh

Nope. It comes with a whole host of other environmental issues. If we have infrastructure in place and a safe delivery mechanism then we should leave it in the ground and use the infrastructure that is in place.

 

[Wij]

Nope. It comes with a whole host of other environmental issues. If we have infrastructure in place and a safe delivery mechanism then we should leave it in the ground and use the infrastructure that is in place.

You think Russian extraction is done in a clean manner?

 

[Scouse]

You think Russian extraction is done in a clean manner?

No fossil fuel extraction is done in a clean manner. But better to not fuck another ecosystem rather than continue to fuck one that's already fucked and wean ourselves off it.

 

[Wij]

Biofuels are shit:

Environmental outcomes of the US Renewable Fuel Standard

Biofuels are included in many proposed strategies to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and limit the magnitude of global warming. The US Renewable Fuel Standard is the world’s largest existing biofuel program, yet despite its prominence, there has been limited empirical assessment of...

www.pnas.org

 

[Scouse]

Scientific co sensus has been that sin e I was at Uni

 

[Wij]

Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Advances Cleaner Industrial Sector to Reduce Emissions and Reinvigorate American Manufacturing | The White House

New Pro-Climate, Pro-Worker Actions Create Jobs and Harness the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Federal Purchasing Power, and Trade Policy Today, the

www.whitehouse.gov

 

[Scouse]

Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Advances Cleaner Industrial Sector to Reduce Emissions and Reinvigorate American Manufacturing | The White House

New Pro-Climate, Pro-Worker Actions Create Jobs and Harness the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Federal Purchasing Power, and Trade Policy Today, the

www.whitehouse.gov

You fall for this shit from the Dems when Biden personally greenlit enough new oil and gas to almost single-handedly scupper global emissions targets but a few days after COP26?