Simple question? Is it really generating electricity from coal that is Fucking the earth/??
In my simplistic view most of the problems come back to 8 billion - and counting - people eating the place alive :-)
Since this thread seems to have turned into some sort of political come ideological sky news talk show I will ask this, if the boats stop coming how long before the lights go out? It's rhetorical, I know the answer.
forgive me if i have misinterperated, but may i ask how the current "alternative energy sources" are improving National security when China controls almost all aspects of rare earths & is at present weaponising it in trade war ( fair enough btw with the West's pathetic tariffs / sanctions) - so now we have critical supply shortages, especially with our insatiable appetite for a wind turbine / solar panel or two....
It isn't, that's the problem, we have plenty of rare earths here, we need to change from exporting to building, we did build our own wind towers once, due to politics that was killed off, could be brought back though, we do make solar panels but import most, that could change, we can make our own batteries but currently not to the scale needed, labour are not interested in small nuclear plants, they should be, it takes resolve, I'm not holding my breath, my point was we should be invested in self sustainability in energy, all kinds, I dislike EV's as much as the next petrol head but if the super carriers stop coming this country will grind to a halt faster than many people realise.
Well it still has me bluffed why (since the government has changed our electrity "grid" to a providers, market operator, regulator, system), anyone would invest in companies which provide imtermittent inefficient electric power.???? We (taxpayers) have been conned.
Well it seems like we are starting to get the message about renewables....gas is back reluctantly
