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Now the last SIX Scottish referendum polls have NO in the lead – politicalbetting.com
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Double win
Yet it will have more impact on our lives than anything else they have feature in the previous 26 minutes.
And further innovative manufacturing in the green economy for Cumbria and elsewhere would be ideal
Also it's the Welsh Parliament now, not Assembly, I believe
The future is wind + other but wind + tidal just don't work together.
When the wind pressure is wrong and the tide is wrong what do you do to make electricity?
So much for Brexit being a 'material change in circumstances'
They can recharge the nation's fleet of electric vehicles overnight.
I will wear this badge with pride.
It doesn't matter that they're uncorrelated. Uncorrelated inconsistent things can be at a minimum both at the same time. The tide is predictable which is great if the alternative power supply can be used on-demand, but is not much use when its not. Its entirely possible for wind pressure and tidal pressure to be wrong in which case what do you?
Wind + on demand works.
Tide + on demand works
Wind + tide . . . how does that work?
We need something on demand. Currently that's gas, in the future we need a clean alternative to gas.
I salute your optimism about human nature.
Has Mogg clarified how they’d fit 650 mps in a chamber designed for 129?
So either the wind doesn't work but the tide does and we have enough, in which case what are we doing with the wind? Or the wind and tide both work and we have far too much in which case what are we doing?
We need something to supplement the wind on-demand.
But the big issue is a simpler one: coal mining declined in the UK because it's cheaper to get coal from big open pit mines in Australia, South Africa, the USA or Colombia than from deep mines in the UK.
The spot price for Powder River Basin Coal (which admittedly is not high enough BTU to be used for coking coal) is around $11/tonne.
I doubt there's a single deep mine in the world that can produce coal for less than $100/tonne.
Now you can probably almost make the numbers work for coking coal in small quantities. But if you own a steel mill, and the price of Appalachian coal drops to $60 and you're paying $120 for coal from Cumbria, then you (the steel mill) are out of business.
So, is the right option to force British steel producers to pay uneconomic prices for coal? Or is it to let the market decide? Which, in all probability, will mean we have marginal levels of coal production in the UK.
Power generation cycles predictably with the tides. Predictability is great if your alternative power sources like gas are able to work on demand. Not so much when you want to use it to replace on demand like gas.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeh384Ky/
(You don't need an account or anything to watch the video, I don't have one my wife sent me the link)
One of these activist companies I looked into recently had over half its annual income from the DFID - some hundreds of thousands. I deeply dis-appreciate my money being spent on employing these little herberts, so they can agitate to stop actual *productive* economic activity.
Wind (inconsistent, unpredictable) + Storage work as a combination.
Tidal (inconsistent, predictable) + Storage work as a combination.
Wind + Tidal simply don't work as a combo. Tidal is an alternative to Wind, not a complement to it.
And I doubt China will need to open any coal fired power stations given the number they've built in recent years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coal-fired_power_stations
Notice that there are 40 Chinese coal fired power station between 3,000MW and 6,720 MW in size.
The old UK coal power stations were only 2,000MW.
Low pressure systems affecting the wind don't cycle neatly with the tide. So when low pressure means our wind turbines aren't generating as much we currently burn gas to make up the difference. How do we on demand increase tidal generation during a low pressure system?
The whole point I'm trying to make is we need storage. If the lagoon is to be used as storage then that's great, that works. If its to work predictably with the tides instead, answers the wrong question.
I reckon Sturgeon's instincts, if not her methods, are in tune with the times.
https://twitter.com/BallotBoxScot/status/1370002135362985987?s=20
Predictability is a strength if working with something like gas, you can get a great synergy between tidal and gas because when you have a surge in demand or lower tidal output you can burn more gas.
You get a great synergy between tidal and storage because when you have a surge in demand or lower tidal output you can release some storage.
The same with wind+storage or wind+gas, when there is a surge in demand, or a lack of wind we can burn more gas or release some storage.
But what synergy is there between tidal and wind? When the wind pressure is down or there is a surge in demand we can burn more gas, or use more storage, but we can't make the tidal pressures change. Tidal storage works, but not tidal generation.
Overall I do agree that we need storage.
I voted Green at the 2005GE, and was posting here before then, and since then I've often been in arguments with the PB Tories on Green issues.
I supported wind turbines back then and the PB Tories said they couldn't work. Now we generate loads of electricity from wind turbines - and the PB Tories say it proves that technology will stop climate change and the Greens were wrong.
I was at the climate camp protests against coal power stations in 2008 and the PB Tories said wind wouldn't work and we needed to burn coal. Since then coal use for electricity has plummeted to be replaced by wind. But according to the PB Tories this proves that the Greens were wrong.
I predict that in the future we will be able to stop using coking coal to make steel. Maybe it will be the hydrogen method being trialled in Sweden. Maybe another technology. I'm certain that when it happens the PB Tories who opposed any measure to help it happen sooner will claim they supported it all along.
The PB Tories are always wrong and the PB Tories never learn.
Worth remembering demand isn't reliable either. Its inconsistent throughout the day and with things like a TV Pickup so on-demand will always be needed.
Piers Morgan is a creep who was dumped for being a creep and is now pissed off and has a bee in his bonnet because he was dumped
Tidal is an excellent alternative to wind, but more predictable and more expensive.
It is not an excellent supplement to wind.
If wind wasn't much cheaper we 100% should be building tidal. But we need a system that supplements each other, otherwise we haven't solved the reliability problems.
Tidal isn't an answer for storage and once storage is a viable alternative then what answer does tidal serve, since wind is cheaper?
But on the basis of evidence which fell far short of convincing, she was trying, for matters of political expediency, to get him convicted as a sex offender. This would have made his life seriously unpleasant for years and seen him reputationally ruined forever.
Do you not find this a wee bit frightening?
If a way can be found to have economical storage lagoons that would produce power on demand instead of predictably then that would be absolutely perfect.
That will also accord with the views of Scots as a whole
https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/1369925156383117312?s=20
AND what do the English call it (the tape, that is, not the whisky). Or the Welsh, Irish, Cornish, Manx, Jerseys, Guernseys, etc., etc.?
BTW, what's the deal with butter scotch?
See their entirely contradictory manifesto promises and the climate for examples.
I will make a guess that the majority of Tory voters do not see climate change as extinction, it is at best a nice to have
Of course, some Greens will say that attaching millions of rockets to the moon to manipulate gravity on earth is "stupid". But don't listen to them.
The only valid current argument against the current MSPs demanding one is they weren't explicit enough to get a mandate for it at the last election, the pledge on having one was vague and conditional.
If the Greens and the SNP both put an unconditional pledge on having one now and get a majority on those pledges then that is fair enough.
See Johnson's about-turn on green issues
Oh, saying that, he did try to intervene to stop windfarms, but as a private citizen, not (afaik) coming here and throwing his Presidential weight around.
The lack of separation of State and the government of the time is ok?
Salmond might or might not be a toe rag but the actions of the SNP in this and other matters stinks.
Ok.
And apparently they only met the once in a bar? And she left the bar he was in that night and went to another party without him and he's had this "ghosted" vendetta against someone who met him once then moved on without him?
Creepy. Creepy. Creepy.
If the SNP cannot even match that despite Brexit then clearly there is no such mandate and the UK government will correctly refuse to allow an indyref2 to take place.
That also accords with the views of most Scots whatever SNP appeasers such as you may want
https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/1369925156383117312?s=20
Though the real game changer for utility scale electrical storage will quite possibly be ultra low cost flow batteries.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/11/pfizer-covid-vaccine-blocks-94percent-of-asymptomatic-infections-and-97percent-of-symptomatic-cases-in-israeli-study.html
I think she believed the women, for reasons we can only speculate.
Rape prosecutions have a notoriously low conviction rate, and victims often aren't willing to testify because of the way they are pilloried. If there is evidence of collusion or even perjury, that needs to be prosecuted.
So yes, as I suspected it's only when the US does something you disagree with that you call outrage. I'm not surprised in the least.
I praise Kerry for having the balls to stand up to our utterly morally bankrupt Government, who don't give a toss about climate change. Not really.
Tories virtue signal on climate change, end of story
Hinckley C is even more than tidal the wrong answer, to the wrong question.
I do not approve of collusion or cover up, if those are shown to have happened.
Oh, saying that, he did try to intervene to stop windfarms, but as a private citizen, not (afaik) coming here and throwing his Presidential weight around.
Brexit...
But to answer your question properly CHB, if the British Government had made a decision I disagreed with on a domestic matter, and a powerful foreign politician intervened in the matter and got the decision reversed, I would be against it. It would be hard to feel as angry about it of course, but in principle I would see it as unacceptable interference.
40% of UK energy is now provided by renewables but only 11% of US energy comes from renewables.
Will Kerry and Biden be shutting coalmines in Pennsylvania? Certainly not
Actually, maybe they'd be silent given Johnson's numbers up there.