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Post by Red Rackham on Aug 2, 2023 11:22:01 GMT
Apologies no link, just watched it on GB News.
Just listened to Anneliese Dodds [known in some circles as 'barking mad Doddsy'] being interviewed on College Green. She said signing new oil & gas drilling licences will do nothing other than force energy bills higher, obviously she didn't elaborate.
Labour will slowly become less and less electable as we move closer to the next election.
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Post by Handyman on Aug 2, 2023 14:41:40 GMT
I do hope so, I don't want to live ( exist) under a Labour Marxists Government ever again
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Post by Vinny on Aug 2, 2023 18:53:48 GMT
New oil and gas drilling will reduce prices due to supply and demand.
But, it's not a long term option.
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Post by jonksy on Aug 3, 2023 12:11:35 GMT
New oil and gas drilling will reduce prices due to supply and demand. But, it's not a long term option. Anyone apart from the usual dumfucks into storing hand grenades whitout the pin?......We had a case down here where a throwaway vape lgnited in a flat. Thankfully nobody was hurt...
Before going to bed, Rebecca Downes and her partner Patrick Ramsey were always vigilant about unplugging equipment around the house.
Having lost her childhood home in a fire caused by an electrical fault, Rebecca, known to her family as Becky, had good reason to be careful.
So when Patrick brought an electric bike home one evening, they decided to charge it in the bedroom rather than the kitchen, so they could keep an eye on it 'just to be safe'.
What ensued, in the three minutes after Patrick connected the lithium-ion battery charger to the wall, is the stuff of nightmares.
The battery, which measured approximately 14 x 3.6in, exploded like a 'Roman candle', Patrick would recall later, with shards of metal embedding in their skin, as flames and toxic smoke instantly engulfed the room.
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Post by Vinny on Aug 3, 2023 17:38:30 GMT
I am totally against Lithium ion batteries.
Carbon ion, aluminium ion and solid state batteries that cannot internally short circuit and catch fire, are another matter entirely.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2023 17:47:26 GMT
I am totally against Lithium ion batteries. Carbon ion, aluminium ion and solid state batteries that cannot internally short circuit and catch fire, are another matter entirely. Do those three alternatives have the same capacity as the Li-ion batteries? Because, if they don't the range of electric cars will be getting even shorter than the current 200 miles. |
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Post by Vinny on Aug 3, 2023 18:27:11 GMT
The solid state ones under development appear to be good for 900 miles.
And whilst they have lithium in as well, completely different electrolyte, the internal short circuit and thermal runaway problem doesn't occur.
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Post by Red Rackham on Aug 4, 2023 0:12:29 GMT
New oil and gas drilling will reduce prices due to supply and demand. But, it's not a long term option. I suppose it depends what you mean by long term. I'm obviously not an expert, but I think there's lots more oil and gas in the North Sea that's yet to be tapped. For the past 40 years I've listened to people predicting the end of North Sea oil and gas. We may have passed peak oil, but there is still a lot of oil and gas to be found and exploited for the benefit of the UK. It's worth mentioning that the slow decline in North Sea oil and gas production correlates almost exactly with increased imports of oil and gas, and only a lefty eco mentalist would be surprised. What surprises me is the fact that some people think it would be better for the UK to buy oil and gas from Indonesia, the middle east and the US than it would be to exploit our own reserves. Remarkable stupidity. |
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Aug 5, 2023 18:28:30 GMT
Apologies no link, just watched it on GB News. Just listened to Anneliese Dodds [known in some circles as 'barking mad Doddsy'] being interviewed on College Green. She said signing new oil & gas drilling licences will do nothing other than force energy bills higher, obviously she didn't elaborate. Labour will slowly become less and less electable as we move closer to the next election. I hear that Starmer's already ordered a double-barrelled shotgun so that he can shoot himself in both feet. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2023 12:48:12 GMT
New oil and gas drilling will reduce prices due to supply and demand. But, it's not a long term option. I suppose it depends what you mean by long term. I'm obviously not an expert, but I think there's lots more oil and gas in the North Sea that's yet to be tapped. For the past 40 years I've listened to people predicting the end of North Sea oil and gas. We may have passed peak oil, but there is still a lot of oil and gas to be found and exploited for the benefit of the UK. It's worth mentioning that the slow decline in North Sea oil and gas production correlates almost exactly with increased imports of oil and gas, and only a lefty eco mentalist would be surprised. What surprises me is the fact that some people think it would be better for the UK to buy oil and gas from Indonesia, the middle east and the US than it would be to exploit our own reserves. Remarkable stupidity. New oil and gas fields in the North Sea would produce only enough gas to satisfy the UK’s needs for a few weeks a year, with a minimal impact on energy security, analysis has found. Fields now under consideration would supply at most an additional three weeks of gas a year to the UK, from 2024 to 2050, even if none of the gas was exported. In reality, it is more likely that much of the gas would be exported overseas to the highest bidder, as is currently the case with about 60% of the UK’s gas production. Over the same period, new oilfields would supply at most about five years of oil demand, if none was exported, according to analysis of government data by the campaigning group Uplift. The UK currently exports about 80% of the oil produced in the North Sea. The Guardian Then we re-import it. |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Aug 6, 2023 12:59:37 GMT
I suppose it depends what you mean by long term. I'm obviously not an expert, but I think there's lots more oil and gas in the North Sea that's yet to be tapped. For the past 40 years I've listened to people predicting the end of North Sea oil and gas. We may have passed peak oil, but there is still a lot of oil and gas to be found and exploited for the benefit of the UK. It's worth mentioning that the slow decline in North Sea oil and gas production correlates almost exactly with increased imports of oil and gas, and only a lefty eco mentalist would be surprised. What surprises me is the fact that some people think it would be better for the UK to buy oil and gas from Indonesia, the middle east and the US than it would be to exploit our own reserves. Remarkable stupidity. New oil and gas fields in the North Sea would produce only enough gas to satisfy the UK’s needs for a few weeks a year, with a minimal impact on energy security, analysis has found. Fields now under consideration would supply at most an additional three weeks of gas a year to the UK, from 2024 to 2050, even if none of the gas was exported. In reality, it is more likely that much of the gas would be exported overseas to the highest bidder, as is currently the case with about 60% of the UK’s gas production. Over the same period, new oilfields would supply at most about five years of oil demand, if none was exported, according to analysis of government data by the campaigning group Uplift. The UK currently exports about 80% of the oil produced in the North Sea. The Guardian Then we re-import it. Can you give us a link to the analysis you menton there? |
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Post by Red Rackham on Aug 6, 2023 13:20:31 GMT
I suppose it depends what you mean by long term. I'm obviously not an expert, but I think there's lots more oil and gas in the North Sea that's yet to be tapped. For the past 40 years I've listened to people predicting the end of North Sea oil and gas. We may have passed peak oil, but there is still a lot of oil and gas to be found and exploited for the benefit of the UK. It's worth mentioning that the slow decline in North Sea oil and gas production correlates almost exactly with increased imports of oil and gas, and only a lefty eco mentalist would be surprised. What surprises me is the fact that some people think it would be better for the UK to buy oil and gas from Indonesia, the middle east and the US than it would be to exploit our own reserves. Remarkable stupidity. New oil and gas fields in the North Sea would produce only enough gas to satisfy the UK’s needs for a few weeks a year, with a minimal impact on energy security, analysis has found. Fields now under consideration would supply at most an additional three weeks of gas a year to the UK, from 2024 to 2050, even if none of the gas was exported. In reality, it is more likely that much of the gas would be exported overseas to the highest bidder, as is currently the case with about 60% of the UK’s gas production. Over the same period, new oilfields would supply at most about five years of oil demand, if none was exported, according to analysis of government data by the campaigning group Uplift. The UK currently exports about 80% of the oil produced in the North Sea. The Guardian Then we re-import it. " Analysis has found" LOL. Since production began in the 1960s to 2014, 42 billion barrels of oil had been extracted from the North Sea, and there is still a potential of 24 billion barrels left remaining there, which is equivalent to about 35 years worth of production, and that is 'known reserves', it is highly likely that unknown reserves are yet to be discovered. The North Sea will remain an important oil/gas reservoir for years to come of that you can be sure. |
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Post by Pacifico on Aug 6, 2023 15:27:12 GMT
I can remember when people were wittering on about 'peak oil' - whatever happened to them?...
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Post by Pacifico on Aug 6, 2023 16:06:04 GMT
New oil and gas fields in the North Sea would produce only enough gas to satisfy the UK’s needs for a few weeks a year, with a minimal impact on energy security, analysis has found. Fields now under consideration would supply at most an additional three weeks of gas a year to the UK, from 2024 to 2050, even if none of the gas was exported. In reality, it is more likely that much of the gas would be exported overseas to the highest bidder, as is currently the case with about 60% of the UK’s gas production. Over the same period, new oilfields would supply at most about five years of oil demand, if none was exported, according to analysis of government data by the campaigning group Uplift. The UK currently exports about 80% of the oil produced in the North Sea. The Guardian Then we re-import it. Can you give us a link to the analysis you menton there? It's from the Guardian.. Uplift are a campaigning group dedicated to a 'fossil fuel-free UK'... Lets just say that some people are rather gullible  |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Aug 6, 2023 17:35:10 GMT
I know it is from the Guardian. I want to see the workings. Without looking at how they worked it out I can not know if they are correct.
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