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Post by Red Rackham on May 25, 2023 1:19:49 GMT
Chief Economist at KPMG, has warned that energy bills will remain high for the next five to ten years due to the "added costs" of net zero. She explained that despite falling gas prices the transition to net zero is going to add cost to our energy bills. www.energylivenews.com/2023/03/28/net-zero-means-high-bills-for-ten-years-say-experts/#:~:text=Big%20Zero%20Report%202022&text=Yael%20Selfin%2C%20the%20Chief%20Economist,another%20to%20our%20energy%20bills.%E2%80%9D But it's OK because even though we are a tiny island that accounts for a massive 0.8% of global emissions and cant possibly make a difference on a global level, forcing us into energy poverty will make our politicians feel very virtuous at Davos and the G7. And lets face it, in an increasingly globalised world that's all that matters, apart from cheap goods from the largest coal based economy in the world of course. But we don't talk about that. |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2023 8:05:47 GMT
Chief Economist at KPMG, has warned that energy bills will remain high for the next five to ten years due to the "added costs" of net zero. She explained that despite falling gas prices the transition to net zero is going to add cost to our energy bills. www.energylivenews.com/2023/03/28/net-zero-means-high-bills-for-ten-years-say-experts/#:~:text=Big%20Zero%20Report%202022&text=Yael%20Selfin%2C%20the%20Chief%20Economist,another%20to%20our%20energy%20bills.%E2%80%9D But it's OK because even though we are a tiny island that accounts for a massive 0.8% of global emissions and cant possibly make a difference on a global level, forcing us into energy poverty will make our politicians feel very virtuous at Davos and the G7. And lets face it, in an increasingly globalised world that's all that matters, apart from cheap goods from the largest coal based economy in the world of course. But we don't talk about that. We should be up there 'inventing' and producing green energy solutions which we could sell to the rest of the World but, as usual, our government pays lip service but does nothing. |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2023 13:43:28 GMT
I'm all for green solutions, especially if they extract "free" energy from the ecosystem - H.E.P. and wind are thee obvious easy ones. Nuclear is also clean energy.
What we do need to avoid is another winter where we are being threatened with 3-4 hour power cuts during cold periods when the wind is not blowing. Asking people not to use electricity that they pay for is not a sustainable solution.
The only reliable clean energy is nuclear, but it takes so long to commission and decommission the power plants. We need to be building small scale nuclear plants which can be brought online when the need arises.
According to some, oil is green energy, so perhaps oil fired power stations would be a good idea. Reliance on foreign gas should be reduced and we should be producing our own supplies of gas and oil. We have not used it all up, have we?
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Post by colbops on May 27, 2023 18:13:59 GMT
I'm all for green solutions, especially if they extract "free" energy from the ecosystem - H.E.P. and wind are thee obvious easy ones. Nuclear is also clean energy. What we do need to avoid is another winter where we are being threatened with 3-4 hour power cuts during cold periods when the wind is not blowing. Asking people not to use electricity that they pay for is not a sustainable solution. The only reliable clean energy is nuclear, but it takes so long to commission and decommission the power plants. We need to be building small scale nuclear plants which can be brought online when the need arises. According to some, oil is green energy, so perhaps oil fired power stations would be a good idea. Reliance on foreign gas should be reduced and we should be producing our own supplies of gas and oil. We have not used it all up, have we? There is no such thing as free energy. |
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Post by Red Rackham on May 27, 2023 20:43:33 GMT
There is no such thing as free energy. Quite right, I was about to say the very same. This fantasy that wind or solar or any other form of energy production green or otherwise will provide free energy is for the birds, it's absolute nonsense. As we are discovering, renewables provide far less reliable energy and far more expensive energy than fossil fuels. But that's something we're not supposed to notice. |
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