Posted on 01/23/2023 10:10:21 PM PST by dennisw
The air is too calm over the UK right now. Windmills are not generating electricity. So bring in the coal burning “backup” plants for some real power...
Or freeze in the dark with your windmills. Even the dopey feminist, save the planet, Greenies might snap to it after a good freeze.
Coal. It’s what’s for winter!
But...coal, is a four letter word!
Greenies are to steeped in their Gaia worship to accept reality. I say let them achieve the temperature of their surroundings to save their precious god.
I’ll be happy to burn coal, oil, and use decaying atoms to stay warm.
Did I read that correctly? Are daily brownouts going to become normalized in the UK like in a third world country?
Wussies! Green Bay Packer fans watch home football games half nekkid. The Germans should grow a set. Of course booze won’t freeze in the freezer at -10. I’m not judging fans, just saying. 😎
Has anyone else noticed that these Cold Snaps always seem to happen during winter-time?
+1 for humiliation
Yes to coal, wind and whatever provides energy. It’s all better than having a wood stove running in every suburban house and smoking up the neighborhoods during inversions. But even wood stoves are good where and when needed, especially rocket stove mass heaters. :)
No. This is straightforward contingency planning. We’re getting towards the end of the second sustained colder-than-average spell here this winter. So far, despite all the media noise, there have been no significant outages or shortages.
There’s a tendency here to overestimate the UK’s current reliance on wind power. In fact over the last year wind supplied on average 26% of the total energy supplied. It’s a significant figure, but only one component of a diverse energy budget.
FWIW, European natural gas prices are now below their levels of a year ago...
I am on a permie/permaculture list from Montana. They talk about “especially rocket stove mass heaters” all the time. They are out your way.
“There’s a tendency here to overestimate the UK’s current reliance on wind power. In fact over the last year wind supplied on average 26% of the total energy supplied. It’s a significant figure, but only one component of a diverse energy budget.”
You all need to start fracking. Wind is maybe 3% of US Electric generation. Most of your coal deposits probably have frackable natural gas.
Unfortunately that now seems less and less likely, and primarily for geological rather than political reasons. Cuadrilla, the company which conducted all the UK trials, has now folded. The geologist who was its founder and CEO, formerly an ardent fracking advocate, now says he no longer believes it will be commercially viable in the UK. The suitable shale beds are too small and compartmentalised. There simply aren't the extensive, easily accessible beds you're lucky to have in the US. You're right to say that there's still plenty of unexploited coal: but the coal measures are apparently unsuitable for fracking
Bringing up coal plant online is the dirtiest part of the cycle. Now they get to bring them online from zero. Well at least they haven’t disassembled them yet.
Hydrocarbons are natures battery.
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