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Barry Hell said:
This is just funny :ROFLMAO: Researcher at worlds most controversial climate change facility (home of climategate) says we need solar farms to electrify everything, leader of council says nah, load of old bollocks

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Norfolk expert: Solar farms 'vital' for UK's energy security

The head of a leading climate change research centre says the UK needs more large solar farms.
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"He also played down concerns about farmland being lost to solar panels.

He said: “Overall, planned solar is about half a percent of UK land, which is about half of what is currently occupied by golf courses,” he said.

“Whether to have food or whether to have solar panels isn’t a reasonable comparison to be making.”


What a fucking moron. Hmm...food, or solar panles...that twat deserves to be out of a job.
 
Barry Hell said:
Subsidies :unsure:

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European heat pump sales tumble as subsidies shrink

Fading enthusiasm for alternative to gas boilers piles pressure on EU’s green agenda
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Heat pump sales across Europe fell by 47 per cent in the first half of the year as consumers lost enthusiasm for switching away from gas boilers, putting more pressure on the EU’s green agenda. In the first six months of 2024, just 765,000 heat pumps were sold across the 13 big European countries, including France, Italy, Germany and Sweden, which collectively account for 80 per cent of the market, according to the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA).Sales fell from 1.44mn in the same period last year, as fewer subsidies and lower gas prices lessened the incentive for households to switch away from gas boilers, the EHPA added. Under plans published in 2022 after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine drove up the price of fossil fuels, the EU set a goal of installing at least 10mn more heat pumps by 2027.Heat pumps heat or cool buildings by using electricity to transfer heat to and from the outside ground or air. They are widely seen as a solution to decarbonising household heating, when powered by renewable energy, but their adoption has been hampered by cost, a lack of qualified installers and wavering government subsidy schemes. Germany had hoped to become a pioneer in the switch to the new technology but a law introduced last year to encourage people to replace their gas and oil-fired boilers with heat pumps prompted a massive public backlash and the government eventually retreated and watered down the proposals.“The struggles of Europe’s heat pump sector offer a read-across to the challenges Europe is facing across its energy transition,” said Luke Sussams, an analyst at Jefferies, in a research note. He said the faltering sales of heat pumps in the first half of the year suggested that fewer than 1.5mn units would be sold in 2024, a return to 2019 levels after a recent boom. “If the economics do not work, the consumer will not accept it. Secondly, policy certainty and consistency is paramount,” he added. Investments in heat pumps increased 75 per cent to €23bn between 2020 and 2023, according to Bloomberg NEF figures. However, spending on the sector has since cooled in large part thanks to a drop off in subsidies in countries including Germany and Italy. The fall-off in sales of heat pumps comes amid concerns over the trajectory of Europe’s decarbonisation with industries arguing that the hundreds of targets set by the European Commission in its Green Deal climate law in 2019 are too strict. Industry ministers gathered in Brussels on Thursday to discuss the state of the EU’s competitiveness, amid heavy lobbying for the car industry and the Italian minister to ease emissions standards for cars. Paul Kenny, the head of the EHPA, called for the new European Commission to take urgent action to “reverse the slowing market”. The Commission has promised an “action plan” to help guide and scale-up investments into heat pumps across the bloc. The plan was due to be published at the end of 2023 but has yet to be released despite calls from 15 member states including Spain and France to “set a clear direction” for the sector in May.Efforts to decarbonise buildings have already proved a lightning rod for anti-EU sentiment in countries such as Italy. To counter this, Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has added housing to the energy commissioner’s portfolio when the new commission starts sitting later this year, following EU wide elections in June.
 
Loz said:
For S&Gs, the UK should announce that it is giving the British Indian Ocean Territory (Diego Garcia) back to its former inhabitants.

Now that is a shitstorm I'd pay to watch.
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Diego Garcia is included in the territory ceded to Mauritius. There is supposedly a clause in the treaty allowing the UK and the US continued jurisdiction over the military base for the next 99 years, but it will no longer be British territory - we'll effectively be leasing it - and impoverished Mauritius is a client-state of China, so that agreement won't be worth the paper it's written on.

This links to the Falklands story because Diego Garcia is an important refueling and supply depot for British naval forces and our nuclear submarine fleet. Without it we would be severely constrained from maintaining any seaborne military presence anywhere in the southern hemisphere, especially the Indo-Pacific where we have just ratified a defence pact in the form of the Aukus alliance and with Japan. We also host a large American military presence on Diego Garcia. The base is of great strategic importance to the US as well as the UK. By surrendering Chagos the Starmer government has spat in the eye of our most important ally and endangered our involvement in Aukus and the Five Eyes intelligence alliance.
Argentina, or course, is an ally of Putin and Beijing. First Chagos, then the Falklands. It's not hard to join the dots. This is about easing western military presence out of the southern hemisphere and replacing it with a Chinese presence. I guarantee that if the Falklands were "returned" to Argentina, Chinese oil drilling companies will move into Falklands waters overnight.
This government is acting like a proxy of Beijing. Whether by design or from sheer stupidity it is not clear but between the twin regimes in Downing Street and Whitehall it is probably a combination of the two.
 
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Diego Garcia is included in the territory ceded to Mauritius. There is supposedly a clause in the treaty allowing the UK and the US continued jurisdiction over the military base for the next 99 years, but it will no longer be British territory - we'll effectively be leasing it - and impoverished Mauritius is a client-state of China, so that agreement won't be worth the paper it's written on.

This links to the Falklands story because Diego Garcia is an important refueling and supply depot for British naval forces and our nuclear submarine fleet. Without it we would be severely constrained from maintaining any seaborne military presence anywhere in the southern hemisphere, especially the Indo-Pacific where we have just ratified a defence pact in the form of the Aukus alliance and with Japan. We also host a large American military presence on Diego Garcia. The base is of great strategic importance to the US as well as the UK. By surrendering Chagos the Starmer government has spat in the eye of our most important ally and endangered our involvement in Aukus and the Five Eyes intelligence alliance.
Argentina, or course, is an ally of Putin and Beijing. First Chagos, then the Falklands. It's not hard to join the dots. This is about easing western military presence out of the southern hemisphere and replacing it with a Chinese presence. I guarantee that if the Falklands were "returned" to Argentina, Chinese oil drilling companies will move into Falklands waters overnight.
This government is acting like a proxy of Beijing. Whether by design or from sheer stupidity it is not clear but between the twin regimes in Downing Street and Whitehall it is probably a combination of the two.
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I did some work on a potential development offshore Falklands some years ago, every equipment manufacturer I contacted refused to deal with it as the Argentinian government had warned that any dealings would result in being blacklisted. You would think, ha ha, mickey mouse Argentina - but they all took the threat very seriously. Big international manufacturers such as can be found in a European country beginning with G :LOL:
 
Gimlet said:
Diego Garcia is included in the territory ceded to Mauritius. There is supposedly a clause in the treaty allowing the UK and the US continued jurisdiction over the military base for the next 99 years, but it will no longer be British territory - we'll effectively be leasing it - and impoverished Mauritius is a client-state of China, so that agreement won't be worth the paper it's written on.

This links to the Falklands story because Diego Garcia is an important refueling and supply depot for British naval forces and our nuclear submarine fleet. Without it we would be severely constrained from maintaining any seaborne military presence anywhere in the southern hemisphere, especially the Indo-Pacific where we have just ratified a defence pact in the form of the Aukus alliance and with Japan. We also host a large American military presence on Diego Garcia. The base is of great strategic importance to the US as well as the UK. By surrendering Chagos the Starmer government has spat in the eye of our most important ally and endangered our involvement in Aukus and the Five Eyes intelligence alliance.
Argentina, or course, is an ally of Putin and Beijing. First Chagos, then the Falklands. It's not hard to join the dots. This is about easing western military presence out of the southern hemisphere and replacing it with a Chinese presence. I guarantee that if the Falklands were "returned" to Argentina, Chinese oil drilling companies will move into Falklands waters overnight.
This government is acting like a proxy of Beijing. Whether by design or from sheer stupidity it is not clear but between the twin regimes in Downing Street and Whitehall it is probably a combination of the two.
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And let's not forget that the US Space Force is also hosted on DG.

I spent a lovely few days there five years ago. A proper idyllic desert island ... with an airstrip, submarine pens and feral donkeys. Surreal.
 
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Gromits on tv telling plebs that they are going to spend ÂŁ22 billion (of our taxes) on carbon capture.

Me thinking it is a ponzi scheme, I went to find what it is. From the British Geoligical society.;
www.bgs.ac.uk

Understanding carbon capture and storage - British Geological Survey

Carbon capture and storage involves capturing carbon dioxide at emission sources, such as power stations, then transporting and storing it underground.
www.bgs.ac.uk www.bgs.ac.uk

The concept is to capture CO2 produced by burning coal in power stations, compress it, pipe it away from the plant and then store it deep underground. It will be trapped there beneath impermeable layers of rock that will prevent it from coming back to the ground surface or sea bed.

Erm, Haven't we just turned off our last coal powered power station?
 
Noobie said:
Gromits on tv telling plebs that they are going to spend ÂŁ22 billion (of our taxes) on carbon capture.

Me thinking it is a ponzi scheme, I went to find what it is. From the British Geoligical society.;
www.bgs.ac.uk

Understanding carbon capture and storage - British Geological Survey

Carbon capture and storage involves capturing carbon dioxide at emission sources, such as power stations, then transporting and storing it underground.
www.bgs.ac.uk www.bgs.ac.uk

The concept is to capture CO2 produced by burning coal in power stations, compress it, pipe it away from the plant and then store it deep underground. It will be trapped there beneath impermeable layers of rock that will prevent it from coming back to the ground surface or sea bed.

Erm, Haven't we just turned off our last coal powered power station?
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I think they just need a way to create the 22bn black hole they keep on about.
 
Noobie said:
Gromits on tv telling plebs that they are going to spend ÂŁ22 billion (of our taxes) on carbon capture.

Me thinking it is a ponzi scheme, I went to find what it is. From the British Geoligical society.;
www.bgs.ac.uk

Understanding carbon capture and storage - British Geological Survey

Carbon capture and storage involves capturing carbon dioxide at emission sources, such as power stations, then transporting and storing it underground.
www.bgs.ac.uk www.bgs.ac.uk

The concept is to capture CO2 produced by burning coal in power stations, compress it, pipe it away from the plant and then store it deep underground. It will be trapped there beneath impermeable layers of rock that will prevent it from coming back to the ground surface or sea bed.

Erm, Haven't we just turned off our last coal powered power station?
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It's a comedy scheme to capture exhaust gas from industrial process (usually gas fired power station) and spend an inordinate amount of money to strip out the CO2, compress it and pipe it to an underground storage facility. Quite often used for 'enhanced oil recovery' schemes - where it is actually useful but nevermind that. Last time I had any dealings with it the power station in question would require to increase generation by approx. 30% to capture 'some' of the CO2 :unsure:

Still, every little helps as Tesco seem to know about
 
Hugo Magnus said:
It

Sodium fluoride has been commonly used as a rat poison in the past. The fluoride in that is present in much stronger concentrations than the fluoride found in tap water.
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ISTR that fluoride can lead to accumulation of aluminium in the brain, leading to reduced brain function and ultimately, Alzheimer's.

ObvioS54usly I don't believe this for a moment. Gubmint would never allow us to poison ourselves in this way.

(B;oody Quincy insisted upon helping with this post :mad:)
 
How about we look at the real reason for change in Antartica. 10,000 scientists, their living quarters and all of their vehicles and machinery that visit Antartica every year. Or the 170,000 tourists in their cruise ships, boats, land vehicles and trekking all over Antartica every year. How about ban all tourists and only allow 500 scientists a year on Antartica. See how quickly it returns to it's own normal.
 
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Wankers 🤣



British start-up has discovered a simple method to slow the melting of Arctic ice​


The method involves pumping water from under the ice floe by drilling a hole in it, then mixing it with the snow on the surface. This water would promote freezing on the surface, thus helping to thicken the ice cap.
 
So, Imagine I follow their advice. Buy a plot of land, build a house, water comes from my own well and sewage is dealt with by a bullrush pond. Heating/hot water is done by a geothermal hole downwards a few hundred feet. Electric all by Solar panels at one end of the plot which also has a small wind turbine.

Other than in construction, They make no money from me whatsover, is that really what companies want?
 
Noobie said:
So, Imagine I follow their advice. Buy a plot of land, build a house, water comes from my own well and sewage is dealt with by a bullrush pond. Heating/hot water is done by a geothermal hole downwards a few hundred feet. Electric all by Solar panels at one end of the plot which also has a small wind turbine.

Other than in construction, They make no money from me whatsover, is that really what companies want?
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You will need a licence for all that đź‘€
 
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