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Post by Orac on Oct 29, 2022 9:35:20 GMT
Yes - they wanted the black girl of Nigerian ancestry.. Deselected early in the race, despite her popularity. Odd stuff |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Oct 29, 2022 11:04:48 GMT
Like lifting the stupid ban of fracking eh? Work it out. We have enough North Sea oil and gas not to need to. We have enough coal to not need to. There are enough lefties who would go back down pits for a bit and mine the stuff before going on strike too. Why do we pay 4x the price for imported US fracked gas eh? |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Oct 29, 2022 11:14:26 GMT
We have enough North Sea oil and gas not to need to. We have enough coal to not need to. There are enough lefties who would go back down pits for a bit and mine the stuff before going on strike too. We have plenty of coal, but we can't use it for obvious reasons!! However, we are down to a couple of years worth of gas and oil. If we didn't import, we would only have 2 years left!! Even Norway is starting to wind down their extraction because the stuff that is left simply isn't financially worth extracting. In case you haven't noticed we are poisoning the planet, so gas is going to worthless very soon, with oil not long behind it once they develop manufacturing substitutes,
These are the nuclear power stations we have operating.
Power station Type Net
MWe Gross
MWe Current operator Construction
started Connected
to grid Commercial
operation Accounting
closure date
Hartlepool AGR 1185 1310 EDF Energy 1968 1983 1989 2024[110]
Heysham 1 AGR 1222 1250 EDF Energy 1970 1983 1989 2024[111]
Heysham 2 AGR 1230 1360 EDF Energy 1980 1988 1989 2028[112]
Torness AGR 1205 1364 EDF Energy 1980 1988 1988 2028[112]
Sizewell B PWR 1195 1250 EDF Energy 1988 1995 1995 2035
Since the 70s we have only built three power stations but shut down all of these:
Berkeley Magnox 276 1957 1962 1962 1989
Hunterston A Magnox 300 1957 1964 1964 1990
Trawsfynydd Magnox 390 1959 1965 1965 1991
Hinkley Point A Magnox 470 1957 1965 1965 2000
Bradwell Magnox 246 1957 1962 1962 2002
Calder Hall Magnox 200 1953 1956 1959 2003
Chapelcross Magnox 240 1955 1959 1960 2004
Dungeness A Magnox 450 1960 1965 1965 2006
Sizewell A Magnox 420 1961 1966 1966 2006
Oldbury Magnox 434 1962 1967 1968 2012
Wylfa Magnox 980 1963 1971 1972 2015
Dungeness B AGR 1040 1965 1983 1985 2021
Hunterston B AGR 1288 1967 1976 1976 2022
Hinkley Point B AGR 840 1967 1976 1976 2022
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Post by sword on Oct 29, 2022 12:26:00 GMT
Like lifting the stupid ban of fracking eh? Work it out. We have enough North Sea oil and gas not to need to. We have enough coal to not need to. There are enough lefties who would go back down pits for a bit and mine the stuff before going on strike too. Your mate Thatcher flooded the mines so that would be a no go for a start,and are you saying Miners go on strike for a laugh? |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Oct 29, 2022 13:40:58 GMT
We have enough North Sea oil and gas not to need to. We have enough coal to not need to. There are enough lefties who would go back down pits for a bit and mine the stuff before going on strike too. Your mate Thatcher flooded the mines so that would be a no go for a start,and are you saying Miners go on strike for a laugh? If you would like a brief history of UK energy supply post war, you may find this documentary informative.
The guy who does it is from Taiwan and the chip industry over there. I find his research very good indeed. The clue here is economics, but there were other considerations. The picture was a complicated one. There is one thread that seems to connect all the dots though, and that is British incompetence/dishonesty/disorganisation etc - all the usual brew that goes into making a very expensive cock-up of it.
By the way, now we have a new generation which starts with Hinckley C. The project was a joint project between a Chinese energy firm and EDF, but something I did not realise was the design is not French as I had been led to believe, but it is a third generation Chinese reactor. They are a big investor in it. The third generation Chinese reactors have the highest safety standards in the world. Also another thing is the turbine at Hinckley C is the largest turbine in the world and they are going to duplicate the design up in East Anglia and maybe some more. So there you have it, we have a world-leading nuclear programme engineered by the ones our engineers tell us are second-rate - lol!
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Post by Vinny on Oct 29, 2022 13:54:18 GMT
More mines closed under Labour governments than ever closed under Conservative governments.
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Post by totheleft3 on Oct 29, 2022 14:17:30 GMT
Not true vinny
from a total of 1,250 pits in 1947 to the present day, 522 mines were closed throughout the UK by Labour and 728 by the Conservatives, including several hundred small licensed mines.
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Post by totheleft3 on Oct 29, 2022 14:18:06 GMT
More mines closed under Labour governments than ever closed under Conservative governments. |
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Post by jeg er on Oct 29, 2022 15:20:56 GMT
If Tory members were given a vote, there is every chance Sunak would not have got the job, not because he isnt the no 1 choice, and able, but because hes coloured. arent we all coloured? |
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Post by Steve on Oct 29, 2022 15:54:54 GMT
Like lifting the stupid ban of fracking eh? Work it out. We have enough North Sea oil and gas not to need to. We have enough coal to not need to. There are enough lefties who would go back down pits for a bit and mine the stuff before going on strike too. We have bugger all extractable coal left. |
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