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MORE POWER STATIONS
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What do you think of the news this morning that they are going to build more power stations in the u.k. and our energy bills will be kept high in the future to pay for it? I thought i was hearing thinks this morning when it was on the radio this morning. They also said our energy bills are due to go up anyway. What again?
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Well we most certainly need energy...goes without saying, unless you want to go back to nature as in the Stone Age....and the cost of everything will go up as it always has.....cost is relative and so long as we all can get enough energy to carry on our lives in some sort of comfort we will have to take it on the chin so to speak....
As for the price ....well I do remember we had a penny meter....that's an old penny.. for our gas and it seemed to last quite a while....imagine putting a one pence piece in a meter to get your bath water nowadays...you'd want a full time meter feeder on permanant standby....
...Some day a brilliant person will come up with a magical answer....just like when electricity was discovered.....until then.. grin and bear it is my policy. ....:-))
As for the price ....well I do remember we had a penny meter....that's an old penny.. for our gas and it seemed to last quite a while....imagine putting a one pence piece in a meter to get your bath water nowadays...you'd want a full time meter feeder on permanant standby....
...Some day a brilliant person will come up with a magical answer....just like when electricity was discovered.....until then.. grin and bear it is my policy. ....:-))
It does seem to fly in the face of everything we're hearing at the moment, especially when there are reports of firms being paid to turn wind turbines OFF because the national grid cannot cope with the increase in power on a windy day!
A friend of mine has also recently had solar panels fitted to his council house free of charge as part of an ongoing project. Coupled with recent reductions by energy companies in a price war it does leave one scratching ones head.
A friend of mine has also recently had solar panels fitted to his council house free of charge as part of an ongoing project. Coupled with recent reductions by energy companies in a price war it does leave one scratching ones head.
Oh Gawd. What a load of mis-information we are being fed by the press.
1) We'd need hundreds and hundreds of wind-turbines to fill the gap left by the ageing nuclear stations that cannot just be kept going and going until they break down.
2) The baseload cost of mere generation on a nuclear plant is very low. And they cannot be just switched on/off willy-nilly. This is why the nuclear stations are used to provide the baseload during the working day, with other forms (some of which are wind-turbines) are switched off at certain times of the day/night when the load required by the country is lower. Remember electricity cannot easily be stored and the generating capacity has to be shifted up/down during the day to match consumer demand.
3) Electricity bills going up in the short term is to do with the price of natural gas used to generate some of the stuff - mainly bought from the continent and Algeria.
4) The problem with nuclear is the cost of building the new stations. Have you ever been inside a working nuclear plant? - I have. The engineering issues are significant. The last lot were all built under the old CEGB regime when the Government owned and ran the generating units and the distribution system. Any commercial builder / operator will want to know that minimum prices will be paid for the electricity generated for a minimum period of time so they can get a return on the capital spent on building the things. You get guarantee the French don't mess about having this debate about commercial subsidy or not - they just know how unhappy the French will be when the lights go out.
Time we just got up and did it - we don't have much time before some nuclear stations will reach the end of their lives.
1) We'd need hundreds and hundreds of wind-turbines to fill the gap left by the ageing nuclear stations that cannot just be kept going and going until they break down.
2) The baseload cost of mere generation on a nuclear plant is very low. And they cannot be just switched on/off willy-nilly. This is why the nuclear stations are used to provide the baseload during the working day, with other forms (some of which are wind-turbines) are switched off at certain times of the day/night when the load required by the country is lower. Remember electricity cannot easily be stored and the generating capacity has to be shifted up/down during the day to match consumer demand.
3) Electricity bills going up in the short term is to do with the price of natural gas used to generate some of the stuff - mainly bought from the continent and Algeria.
4) The problem with nuclear is the cost of building the new stations. Have you ever been inside a working nuclear plant? - I have. The engineering issues are significant. The last lot were all built under the old CEGB regime when the Government owned and ran the generating units and the distribution system. Any commercial builder / operator will want to know that minimum prices will be paid for the electricity generated for a minimum period of time so they can get a return on the capital spent on building the things. You get guarantee the French don't mess about having this debate about commercial subsidy or not - they just know how unhappy the French will be when the lights go out.
Time we just got up and did it - we don't have much time before some nuclear stations will reach the end of their lives.
Its all about profit. hey hve to justify it so, they just give us some old crap. The world will end if we don't, youll be living with candles and open fires etc.
all propaganda. They are making enough money now to do the build but using it would cut into the profit and the government lets them (both not just the current one) whilst pretending to wring their hands.
all propaganda. They are making enough money now to do the build but using it would cut into the profit and the government lets them (both not just the current one) whilst pretending to wring their hands.
There are several hydro-electric power stations already here-on rivers and lochs. First one built in the 1940's The one at Pitlochry certainly doesn't spoil our beautiful countryside. It attracts a lot of tourists. I don't mind a few windfarms here and there but when you see a whole lot of them together-ugh!!
Why would they be kept high to pay for it ? Surely they have already earmarked some of the vast profits from the past to pay for new investment ? It would be much higher if we depended on importing power in anyway. Think of what mire we'd be in if we were stupid enough to rely on foreign investment. Still pity it isn't in public hands then the power could be supplied at near cost to those who paid for it in taxes.
