Renton

Does solar work at night?

Probably the biggest issue. And without insulation heat exchange is pointless.

I completely agree we need to maximise renewables and energy should be state owned. I just don't think they can ever be the only answer. Maybe the government think they can and that is why Sizewell C is being scrapped. I'm a bit dubious about this though.

It's not though is it? It's the availability of the correct weather conditions, regardless of technology (for the main ones, wind and solar). Please explain to me why we don't need a back up source if it's not windy or sunny, as is often the case in winter when we most need power?

It's highly variable though dependent on the weather. We have no way of storing excess energy generation (yet). I don't think batteries are the answer personally as they have a serious environmental impact.

MF said we could solve the issue in 2 years, which is what I called cloud cuckoo land. I then gave an anecdote explaining we can't even reliably connect smart meters as an example. I actually doubt he was being serious about this, but whatever.

Law of diminishing returns, we've picked the low hanging fruit (wind power). You can't be solely reliant on this, it can only provide a proportion of your grid because it's often not windy. All I am saying is you also need a reliable source of energy that is always present at the flick of a switch. Nuclear fits the bill, as far as I am aware this has been our energy policy for a while.

Eh? You told me to read some "scientific papers" and suggested I got all my information from Google. That was the patronising bit. I'm disagreeing with both you and MF, spelling out my reasons. Show me where I am patronising.

Howay man, this is cloud cuckoo land stuff. It will take 100 years, we don't have the skills or capacity to do this in the timescale of an electoral cycle or even 3 cycles, which is part of the problem. As an example I had to have a smart meter fitted when I rennovated my house. Neither the gas or electric ones work, they won't connect to the infrastructure. So I have no module telling me what I am using and still have to send off readings manually. If you look online, you will see this is not an unusual case, it's actually pretty typical. Renewables are definitely the long-term answer but we also need nuclear. Scrapping SIzewell C will lead to issues down the line imo, serious ones.

There's 60 million of us though, that's a fuck ton of energy needed.

Stmpathies with your renters, must be a stressful situation. Try not to be so patronising maybe. You're talking about hypotheticals here. Wind power will be the dominant renewable in our life times, and it isn't always windy. We will need baseload generation for the foreseeable. England will anyway, an independent Scotland would probably be okay as you have hydro too.

There is no way of guranteeing the wind and/or sunlight over the UK, especially in winter. Get a blocking anticyclone in winter (which are quite common), you get freezing temperatures with no wind which can last days or even weeks. I don't think I've ever heard anyone seriously suggest we don't need to guarantee a baseload, and for me nuclear is by far the preferred choice for that.

I thought a big issue with the nuclear projects was the tariffs we had to guarantee to the operators? Certainly that ws the case for Hinkley point. I would therefore assume that was less of an issue now with the insane cost of electricity generation from gas. But regardless, we know renewables can't provide the baseline energy so what the fuck will? "It takes ages to build". SO yeah, let's not bother then? Also inthat article Northern Power House rail has been scrapped (transpennine improvements). First we lost HS2 to prioritse NPR apparently, now that is scrapped too. Fucking lying tory cunts.

When I think about democracy I sometimes think of Brave New World by Huxley. I never got round to reading the book but saw an adaptation of it on the telly once, probably early 80s. When you give the Deltas and Epsilons the vote, they're going to be impressed with Johnson bull dosing a Get Brexit Done wall. In the adaptation I saw, Deltas were always really happy, reminds me of someone on here. Personally though being an alpha is more a curse than a blessing.

Best case scenario here (red line), we'll still not be back to where we were in 2020 by the end of 2025 in terms of GDP. Quite staggering really. I think in real terms, people will be worse of then than they were 15 (fucking FIFTEEN!) years earlier under Labour. And the predictions after 2025 are also dire. Honestly you've got to pray this us the end of this shithouse party once and for all. And if now is not the time to tackle our failing constitution I don't know when is. I'm looking at you, Starmer, you coward.

The blue bit on this graph is the Truss/Tory premium.

It's all to do with friction.

WOuld you suck off Hatt Mancock though? Is 400k worth the waking up in the middle night in a cold sweat screaming for the rest of your life? Maybe.

Okay, so according to Mordaunt, this means dismantling NATO: This country simply can't function with the incesant lies from the government. I thought Sunak and Mordaunt might be a bit more honest but no, they're lying cunts like Johnson.

Hancock is being paid £400,000 to appear in I'm a Celebrity. I'd eat a kangaroo bollock for that.

Good for him. And confirming they will bring this up every week from now on, truly pathetic. I haven't read the manifesto, does it say NATO should be dismantled? If not, has Mordaunt just lied in th ehouse of commons?

Barbaric. I thought we'd agreed to feed them to Great White sharks now?

Damn, got to the Venn diagram before me. You are one fast typer. Or typist. Whatever!

Your stance on immigration and scepticism on the anti-Brexit sentiument are giveaways. I mean if you have a Venn fdiagram some people might be in the immigration is the number one priority and didn't vote for brexit intersection, but not many.