Maybe we are not doomed after all
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The bike chat is better tbhdtaylor243 said:
No all my posts are brand new.rick_chasey said:
More of a side quest. Question remains however. Old poster?dtaylor243 said:
Did you join a bike forum to pick arguments with strangers?rick_chasey said:
Are you an old poster or did you join a bike forum to post about climate change?dtaylor243 said:
Many developed countries including UK have commited to paying .7% of gross national income, or something like that, to funding programmes in developing countries, promoting education and familly planning would, I guess come under that budget which we all contribute to through tax.rick_chasey said:It’ll cost more than 1% on your income tax
Good grief if this is the level of discussion pisted on these boards not much point in visiting here.0 -
You may have a point. 😉dtaylor243 said:
No all my posts are brand new.rick_chasey said:
More of a side quest. Question remains however. Old poster?dtaylor243 said:
Did you join a bike forum to pick arguments with strangers?rick_chasey said:
Are you an old poster or did you join a bike forum to post about climate change?dtaylor243 said:
Many developed countries including UK have commited to paying .7% of gross national income, or something like that, to funding programmes in developing countries, promoting education and familly planning would, I guess come under that budget which we all contribute to through tax.rick_chasey said:It’ll cost more than 1% on your income tax
Good grief if this is the level of discussion pisted on these boards not much point in visiting here.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
It was (I think), just a straight question.dtaylor243 said:
No all my posts are brand new.rick_chasey said:
More of a side quest. Question remains however. Old poster?dtaylor243 said:
Did you join a bike forum to pick arguments with strangers?rick_chasey said:
Are you an old poster or did you join a bike forum to post about climate change?dtaylor243 said:
Many developed countries including UK have commited to paying .7% of gross national income, or something like that, to funding programmes in developing countries, promoting education and familly planning would, I guess come under that budget which we all contribute to through tax.rick_chasey said:It’ll cost more than 1% on your income tax
Good grief if this is the level of discussion pisted on these boards not much point in visiting here.
People come and go and forget usernames.
Anyway, if you only came on here to post in this thread, then fine. The more, the merrier.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
To summarise, you're saying we are doomed in the maybe we're not doomed after all thead..dtaylor243 said:
No all my posts are brand new.rick_chasey said:
More of a side quest. Question remains however. Old poster?dtaylor243 said:
Did you join a bike forum to pick arguments with strangers?rick_chasey said:
Are you an old poster or did you join a bike forum to post about climate change?dtaylor243 said:
Many developed countries including UK have commited to paying .7% of gross national income, or something like that, to funding programmes in developing countries, promoting education and familly planning would, I guess come under that budget which we all contribute to through tax.rick_chasey said:It’ll cost more than 1% on your income tax
Good grief if this is the level of discussion pisted on these boards not much point in visiting here.2 -
'Cleaner energy'https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59212983
Rolls-Royce SMR said one of its power stations would occupy about one tenth of the size of a conventional nuclear plant - the equivalent footprint of two football pitches - and power approximately one million homes.
The firm said a plant would have the capacity to generate 470MW of power, which it added would be the same produced by more than 150 onshore wind turbines.
At an expected cost of around £2bn each, SMRs would cost less than the £20bn each for the larger plant under construction at Hinkley Point and an anticipated, but not yet approved, sister plant at Sizewell in Suffolk.
If approved for use in the UK, it is understood Rolls-Royce SMR could build up to 16 reactors across the UK for electricity production.0 -
They could build new hydrogen production facilities next door and use the nuclear power to generate hydrogen.0
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On my usual hobby horse, this time the treasury and how to pay for net zero.
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So - push the costs of net zero down the line basically.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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focuszing723 said:'Cleaner energy'https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59212983
Rolls-Royce SMR said one of its power stations would occupy about one tenth of the size of a conventional nuclear plant - the equivalent footprint of two football pitches - and power approximately one million homes.
The firm said a plant would have the capacity to generate 470MW of power, which it added would be the same produced by more than 150 onshore wind turbines.
At an expected cost of around £2bn each, SMRs would cost less than the £20bn each for the larger plant under construction at Hinkley Point and an anticipated, but not yet approved, sister plant at Sizewell in Suffolk.
If approved for use in the UK, it is understood Rolls-Royce SMR could build up to 16 reactors across the UK for electricity production.In the first year of the pandemic, from April 2020 to 2021, it borrowed £299bn, the highest figure since records began in 1946.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52663523
The government is expected to borrow less in the current year, April 2021 to 2022, though the figure could still be more than £200bn.
Coming back to this. I still find it difficult to rationalise the cost of Covid in my head, being at around £500,000,000,000, or 250 mini nuclear power stations!0 -
Two Hundred and Fifty!0
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I could have aircon and heating on 24/7!0
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If it helps circa 60 of them are non Covidfocuszing723 said:focuszing723 said:'Cleaner energy'https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59212983
Rolls-Royce SMR said one of its power stations would occupy about one tenth of the size of a conventional nuclear plant - the equivalent footprint of two football pitches - and power approximately one million homes.
The firm said a plant would have the capacity to generate 470MW of power, which it added would be the same produced by more than 150 onshore wind turbines.
At an expected cost of around £2bn each, SMRs would cost less than the £20bn each for the larger plant under construction at Hinkley Point and an anticipated, but not yet approved, sister plant at Sizewell in Suffolk.
If approved for use in the UK, it is understood Rolls-Royce SMR could build up to 16 reactors across the UK for electricity production.In the first year of the pandemic, from April 2020 to 2021, it borrowed £299bn, the highest figure since records began in 1946.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52663523
The government is expected to borrow less in the current year, April 2021 to 2022, though the figure could still be more than £200bn.
Coming back to this. I still find it difficult to rationalise the cost of Covid in my head, being at around £500,000,000,000, or 250 mini nuclear power stations!
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Hydrogen propulsion to power future aircrafthttps://www.airbus.com/en/innovation/zero-emission/hydrogen/zeroe
All three ZEROe concepts are hybrid-hydrogen aircraft. They are powered by hydrogen combustion through modified gas turbine engines. Liquid hydrogen is used as fuel for combustion with oxygen.
In addition, hydrogen fuel cells create electrical power that complements the gas turbine, resulting in a highly efficient hybrid-electric propulsion system. All of these technologies are complementary, and the benefits are additive.0 -
At least there is a degree of honesty about it. USA and China come together little (through the environment? Who would have thought?).rick_chasey said:General consensus seems to be COPs is distinct disappointment.
Unlike Paris where it had all the hypocrite's clapping and cheering.
(Although that may yet come).seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
“I have a fair amount of experience with hydrogen, our company has an incredible amount of experience with hydrogen. At least in the size of airframe that we are all talking about. We experiment at the low end, but that’s not going to be a meaningful market here,” Calhoun said in the call.
“And the advent of sustainable fuel already, already we’re capable of living with that sustainable fuel. I believe that’s going to be the 15-year answer to 2050 guidelines and approaches because we have all worked with it, experimented with it, we know it works, and now we to develop a supply line for it. But I believe it’s the only answer between now and 2050.”
Boeing's (CEO) take on hydrogen and future fuels.0 -
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/15/wood-burners-emit-more-particle-pollution-than-traffic-uk-data-shows
bin off your woodburners ffs.0 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuHSBSLK3_A
People could just watch youtube videos of a fire places and put lots of jumpers and things on?0 -
rick_chasey said:
Whatever happened to the Clean Air Act? It bemuses me why woodburners are such a thing in urban/built-up areas.0 -
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Lol. Everyones screwed. You'll be a goey petroleum worm food by-product soon enough.0
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Maybe time to start waving the placards about at Drax power station then? I read an article somewhere that the conversion to wood pellet burning there means it no longer counts towards the greenhouse emissions statistics? Seems using a “renewable” like burnt wood is just fine.rick_chasey said:
Except perhaps when the renewable is made from clear-felled forests in Canada and shipped to the UK in diesel powered bulk carrier ships.
Same story all over Europe allegedly with coal plants converted to wood pellet burners.
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I'm about to move house and the first thing I want to install is a woodburner
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There are wood burners and wood burners. The cast iron box with basic damper full of poorly seasoned logs will indeed chuck a lot of rubbish up the chimney. A more modern burner that reburns the flue gases and is fuelled with well seasoned wood is quite a different thing. Pellet fuelled boilers are another thing again.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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I'm too middle class not torick_chasey said:Don't do it Shirley.
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What RJS said.
I have 2. One heats the water. They are hyper efficient but dry wood is key. You need ample (and proper) storage space.
My monthly electricity bill has risen from £107 pcm to £123 pcm (3 bedroom detached house) and wood prices have increased by about 5%, I am so glad I don't have other forms of heating.
I painstakingly insulated this house when I gutted it. Last night we lit the log burner at 5pm and it fizzled out at about 11.30pm. How many people can say their homes need to be heated for only 6.5 hours out of 24 in winter and be more than comfortable to live in?
Many many homes need better insulation (or demolition). Addressing that problem would have a significant effect on energy use.
I do understand the antipathy towards wood burners in urban areas.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Apparently by 2040 HMRC will lose £35bn PA in revenue due to electric cars not paying VED and fuel taxes. Wonder what will make up the shortfall....The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
It'll soon move to energy consumption and taxes on that.pblakeney said:Apparently by 2040 HMRC will lose £35bn PA in revenue due to electric cars not paying VED and fuel taxes. Wonder what will make up the shortfall....
Electric cars are great for moving the pollution away from where people live to power stations which tend to be out of the way, but they're only as green from a climate change perspective as the power station charging it is.
(I know you know this, I'm just making the point)0 -
Yup.rick_chasey said:
It'll soon move to energy consumption and taxes on that.pblakeney said:Apparently by 2040 HMRC will lose £35bn PA in revenue due to electric cars not paying VED and fuel taxes. Wonder what will make up the shortfall....
I am assuming "cheap" electric cars will only be cheap for a limited time.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0
