US Politics

[Common Sense Club]

You seem a little obsessed with the 'Christian Right' and certainly seem to over estimate their power policy wise.

Christianity, by the way, isn't required to claim a 'god given right' to anything. All societies take exactly what they want whether they use religion as a basis or not. Stalin and Pot didn't need religion did they, so I find this continual reference back to the 'Christian Right' a bit pointless and perhaps some personal animus you have.

Also you haven't criticised the fact that it's the working classes more than anyone else paying for switching to renewals.....which there was never a popular demand for......and I notice you didn't mention nuclear.

Nuclear blows renewable's out of the water in terms of reliability, regardless of the pun.

It's about money as the driving factor seemingly more than actual need, who pays and who profits.....what matters is the policy not the bunch of words someone uses to justify a policy. Nuclear should have been the top focus as it was in France, but wasn't and we are paying the cost of the failure of British elites.....who seemingly get to retire and live nice lives despite making terrible decisions.

The most reliable form of natural energy is tidal; you can set your clock by it, but the lobby group isn’t as visible or powerful, hence we don’t hear much about it. We are an island surrounded by water and regular tides. Go figure why we aren’t going full speed into this…

 

[Stirlingsays]

The most reliable form of natural energy is tidal; you can set your clock by it, but the lobby group isn’t as visible or powerful, hence we don’t hear much about it. We are an island surrounded by water and regular tides. Go figure why we aren’t going full speed into this…

The reason essentially is cost.

Tidal is expensive and the technology for reliably low cost infrastructure isn't considered to be there yet.

But you'd expect the geographical realities of this island would mean that we would be spending more on it......but the bulk of money is going into offshore wind — followed by solar PV.

Personally I'd think tidal would be a better bet than solar but I'm just a plonker eating biscuits.

 

[Forest Hillbilly]

The reason essentially is cost.

Tidal is expensive and the technology for reliably low cost infrastructure isn't considered to be there yet.

But you'd expect the geographical realities of this island would mean that we would be spending more on it......but the bulk of money is going into offshore wind — followed by solar PV.

Personally I'd think tidal would be a better bet than solar but I'm just a plonker eating biscuits.

Tidal might be tricky, just because the amount of ship traffic we get. Electricity generation should ideally be placed as close to the end user as possible, because a lot of power is lost on transporting electricity over distance.
London probably wouldn't benefit as the English Channel is one of the busiest shipping routes in the world.
However there is the shoreline around Norfolk and Suffolk. The locations would lend itself well to off-shore wind farms and also tidal. The trouble is that where tidal and wind is in abundance, tends to be in less populated areas.
Around the fields of Surrey and Hampshire I have seen farmers fields used for solar panels.
This oil price volatility is making people think seriously about energy security.
There'll always be oil to run tanks, fighter jets and missiles