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Post by Red Rackham on Mar 12, 2024 10:18:53 GMT
Rishi Sunak sets out plans to build gas power stations 'to stop blackouts on cloudy, windless days'Ministers will today unveil plans for a new generation of gas-fired power stations to avert the 'genuine prospect of blackouts' in the dash for net zero. In a move that will anger environmental campaigners, Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho will say Britain needs to be 'realistic', and insist new gas plants are needed to keep the lights on when output from renewable sources dips - According to National Grid, gas was producing more than 52 per cent of the UK's energy at 6pm yesterday, while renewables contributed less than 13 per cent. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13184837/Rishi-Sunak-sets-plans-build-gas-power-stations-stop-blackouts-cloudy-windless-days.htmlEach day it becomes more and more obvious that net zero is unachievable without damaging the economy and making people poorer.
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Post by witchfinder on Mar 12, 2024 10:29:33 GMT
I dont think they will ever go ahead, its too late now for the Tories to start anything, I hope that any new government will cancel them.
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Post by Red Rackham on Mar 12, 2024 10:37:12 GMT
I dont think they will ever go ahead, its too late now for the Tories to start anything, I hope that any new government will cancel them. Labour support the governments plan to build new gas power stations. |
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Post by sandypine on Mar 12, 2024 10:49:43 GMT
I dont think they will ever go ahead, its too late now for the Tories to start anything, I hope that any new government will cancel them. If they do not go ahead then many in the winters to come will be suffering blackouts and restrictions on electric use. Probably excess deaths of the elderly and the vulnerable. Net zero has a price to pay if it is sought with dogmatism. |
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Post by Bentley on Mar 12, 2024 11:09:28 GMT
The net zero zealots plan to make Winters cold and dark merely to give them a warm fuzzy glow has taken a setback .
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Post by Pacifico on Mar 12, 2024 11:31:35 GMT
I dont think they will ever go ahead, its too late now for the Tories to start anything, I hope that any new government will cancel them. what should they be replaced with? |
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Post by witchfinder on Mar 12, 2024 12:52:54 GMT
They should at the very least be replaced with gas powered power plants which have Carbon Capture Technology.
This is yet another of many U Turns by this government on Green Energy, and its abandonment of its earlier announced intention to have a "nett zero grid by 2035".
These new gas powered electricity generators COULD be fitted with Carbon Removal Technology, but the government is to allow them to be built without the technology.
Proof, that this government is not serious about cleaner, greener, renewables.
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Post by Dogburger on Mar 12, 2024 14:42:31 GMT
Renewable ,Green power doesn't cover our needs yet and Im not sure it ever will . Makes sense , the only sense ,to have a mixture of power supplies for the country .
Personally I think 'net zero' is a vision much like the end of the rainbow , you can see it but you will never get there .
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2024 16:52:44 GMT
He is going to build 60 of them inside the schools they are building.
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Post by Pacifico on Mar 12, 2024 17:21:32 GMT
They should at the very least be replaced with gas powered power plants which have Carbon Capture Technology. Where are you going to put the CO2 that you capture?. Historically the CO2 has been used to boost oil production but I thought we were supposed to be running that down. CCT is also expensive and doesn't work very well - its another example of a 'green' technology that is overhyped before the technology is generally available and working. |
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