MPs voted almost unanimously for the current energy/climate policies, but now they don’t like the look of the results. Going down the same futile route faster, in pursuit of ‘decarbonization’ targets, is their proposed solution.
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Britain will struggle to keep the lights on using only net zero electricity as the roll-out of green energy lags far behind target, MPs have warned.
Falling investor confidence and bureaucratic delays mean Britain’s efforts to produce entirely clean electricity are at risk of stalling, MPs on the cross-party Business Select Committee said.
They are calling on the government to come up with a “coherent, overarching plan” to boost green supplies — or risk missing climate targets, says The Telegraph.
Demand for electricity is expected to soar as households buy electric cars and heat pumps.
Darren Jones, the Labour MP who chairs the committee, said: “Ministers think that publishing strategies and releasing social media videos will deliver the energy infrastructure the country needs.
“It’s failed before and it keeps failing. Without a coherent, overarching delivery plan, the Government risks undermining the UK’s ability to generate, store and distribute the fossil fuel free electricity the country needs to hit net zero.”
The Government wants to decarbonise the power system by 2035, as part of efforts to slash carbon emissions to “net zero” across the economy by 2050.
Britain has made significant progress in cutting emissions from its electricity system, with wind turbines now producing roughly a quarter of electricity across the year.
However, production is still dominated by gas-fired power stations, which supply more than a third of annual electricity and are a large source of carbon dioxide emissions.
Ministers want to change this by boosting the amount of electricity generated from wind turbines and nuclear power stations instead.
Gas-fired power stations are likely to still play a role but would need to be fitted with new technology to capture their emissions, or burn hydrogen instead.
The overhaul will require billions of pounds of investment in new power stations, as well as new technology to help cope with greater levels of intermittent wind power on the system.
Full article here.
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Ach what the heck!… seems to be their idea, ‘if the means justifies the end’ .. Maybe if and when these ( swearing wuietly) would stay and LISTEN in the house when someone stands up and TELLS them the story ( thinking of the Bridgen mannie) we would get on better in the world ( THIS world/country) It beggars belief that they do not have ANY IDEA of their own, on basically anything that they legislate, etc.
“green energy”
Non-sequitur and oxymoron craftily concatenated.
“Falling investor confidence”
Savvy investors follow where the money pot resides.
“Demand … as households buy electric cars and heat pumps.”
Who’s buying with all that negative press? Who wants a vehicle that needs a major overhaul after 3-5 years? Or a heating system that’s ~0% efficient below 5ºC?
“It’s failed before and it keeps failing.”
Says it all. Except for remote locations, wind generators faded from the electrical scene from their inception.
I read the other day Drax has now finally terminated it’s remaining coal capacity. But don’t worry, they’ll be converted to burn more trees anon.
Well MrGrim if you are loosing money burning coal (through taxes) and making money burning wood (lots, through subsidies), what do you think they would choose.
The scheme is not viable, firstly that it (on Drax’s own figures) results in 32% more CO2 emissions. Won’t help public approval when that is widely known.
Secondly look at the current state of the UK’s finances (a good stiff drink or two first, may be necessary) which are dire. Interest on the borrowings to keep current policies and public servants going is almost the cost of the NHS, which in turn is grossly incompetently and expensively run.
The end result has to be a financial crisis, and a massive trimming of unnecessary expenditure. Subsidies for renewables would be one of the first cuts, and possibly the reluctance of the City to invest in new projects reflects some nervousness about the future.
And not one mention of our old friend, Opportunity Cost. Let’s replace a perfectly adequate system with another one and thus not do a whole bunch of other stuff we could have done. Thus we are poorer by not just the billions we spend on the needless replacement but the new things those wasted billions would have provided. Cleaner rivers if we spen it on the environment say or some new tech we can’t imagine. We are being made much, much poorer by those we elected to do the opposite.
Predictions are that fossil fuels will be exhausted in a few decades. Not like we have a choice. Whether or not to change is a moot point. We don’t have a choice.
Don’t worry Earnest, using modern prospecting and extraction techniques there are hundreds – perhaps thousands of years’ worth of available petroleum resources left as yet unexplored and untouched.
https://energiesnet.com/the-offshore-oil-business-is-gushing-again-wsj/
Then, using the steerable drilling techniques used for shale extraction and in situ gasification which produces synthesis gas, feedstock for the Fischer-Tropsch coal to oil process, there are billions – perhaps trillions – of tons of coal accessible in the UK alone.
https://www.ingenia.org.uk/ingenia/issue-43/underground-coal-gasification
And then there is the vast amount of methane available as hydrate on the ocean bed and in the arctic permafrost which is even now being investigated with a view to commercial exploitation, see here: “At the same time, new technologies are being developed in Germany that may be useful for exploring and extracting the hydrates.
The basic idea is very simple: the methane (CH4) is harvested from the hydrates by replacing it with CO2. Laboratory studies show that this is possible in theory because liquid carbon dioxide reacts spontaneously with methane hydrate. If this concept could become economically viable, it would be a win-win situation, because the gas exchange in the hydrates would be attractive both from a financial and a climate perspective.”
http://worldoceanreview.com/en/wor-1/energy/methane-hydrates/2/
So don’t worry, we won’t have to worry about energy for centuries – perhaps millennia, by which time we’ll have much more efficient energy technology, for example someone will get fusion going sooner or later.
Thanks for the reply and information.
And let’s not forget that CO2 has but a marginal effect on the weather with modern indications of ECS below one degree C. So the whole exercise is futile. UK’s one per cent is just virtue signalling to people who don’t care a toss, Chinese, Indians
I assume the net zero cult has absolutely no idea of how things work. Don’t they know that net zero means no or very little electrical power which in turn leads to no glass, no steel, no cement and no concrete, no transport – no electricity to charge electric cars and no power for the trains, no food deliveries because the farmers can’t produce it or harvest it, little or no clothing because most of the fabrics are synthetic created from oil. Do I need to go on? The people that thought up the idea of net zero should be imprisoned with hard labour for life.
Gulf states poised to bail Britain out of energy crisis
Bahrain and the UAE courted by energy secretary Grant Shapps for fresh nuclear investment
30 April 2023
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/04/30/gulf-states-poised-to-bail-britain-out-of-energy-crisis/
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Crisis 😧
‘Stranded assets’ Carney changing his tune?
Carney: New Oil & Gas Investment Is Still Needed In The Energy Transition
May 01, 2023
The former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England has said more investment is needed in oil and gas production.
The world is boosting investments in clean energy but it will also need more oil and gas if it is to meet global energy demand.
Carney is the latest energy expert to emphasize the importance of an orderly energy transition that maintains investment in oil and gas.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Carney-New-Oil-Gas-Investment-Is-Still-Needed-In-The-Energy-Transition.html
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Energy expert? 🤔
UN’s Mark Carney says ‘enormous’ stranded assets show the need for a rapid energy transition
THU, OCT 21 2021
The likelihood of fossil fuel assets being rendered worthless underscores the need to decarbonize the world’s economy as quickly as possible, according to Mark Carney, the U.N.’s special envoy on climate action and finance.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/21/climate-stranded-assets-show-the-need-for-rapid-energy-transition-carney-says.html
Is this because there won’t be any electric passenger planes?…
Net Zero means NO FLYING at all by 2050, says British mathematician Norman Fenton
04/21/2023
British mathematician and computer scientist Norman Fenton recently posted an explosive Twitter thread on the repercussions of achieving the 2050 Net Zero agenda, which aims to cut down greenhouse gas emissions to as close to zero as possible.
According to Fenton, the world is now entering a new phase of globalist control: climate lockdowns.
On April 10, he tweeted: “Reminder of what ‘Net Zero’ really means. This graphic is from the U.K. government FIRES project. Key points: all airports except Heathrow, Belfast & Glasgow are to close by 2030. NO FLYING at all by 2050.”
https://climatesciencenews.com/2023-04-21-net-zero-means-no-flying-by-2050.html
Absolute Zero
https://ukfires.org/absolute-zero/
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