port Talbot sacrificed to net zero

i can hear the twenty’s plenty twat celebrating this already.

‘And all it took to achieve our target was to out one tenth of one per cent on the dole as maggie did’

I now hear Tata wanted to shut it down five years ago, but the government gave then some cash to keep going until about now. The reason they wanted it shut five years ago was it was losing money. The unions forced the whole thing to keep going without job losses, but it was rather ridiculous considering the high levels of employment are only because it is old technology. You just can not run a business which loses money. The unions are helping to destroy industry because who would want to invest in new plants if they are forced to operate at a loss so it employs more unionists.

It's not even a CO2 problem. The thing was our nuclear power was wiped out when North Sea gas came in and gas turbine generation was the cheapest source of electricity. It now stands that on shore wind is the cheapest for us. We have some of the windiest places in the world. So we have this issue where we need to balance the supply and demand. Where we find we have times the wind is generating more than we need we can heat up the furnaces in industry. If we still have excess we can dump the energy into hydrogen production. The added advantage is the more we can cope with energy through renewable sources the less reliant we are on obtaining supplies. Such stability helps the overall economy, since no one wants to set up in industry with an unreliable energy supply. Also wind generation is a bit like cargo ships. The bigger we build them the more efficient they become. This is not so for combustion because you have a physical limit on efficiency.