Chit Chat
science tells us we are on the cusp of Fusion - free energy?
so why spend the cash on a huge white elephant.
Germany's solar energy output just exceeded their
coal burning output.
burn coal and phase in renewables. 10 percent to 20 percent - till it's 100 percent?
one accident with the most toxic substance on the planet ? very sensible. very green.
low carbon - high uranium.
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Germany's solar energy output just exceeded their coal burning output.
Where did that come from? How does that compare with their output from gas and oil? Coal is the dirtiest energy source of all. There is radioactive material in the smoke from coal burning power stations. One of Europe's biggest nuclear power stations is just across the channel at Dunkirk, so why worry about Hinkley Point? |
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Can't find it in my history? read it an hour ago?
Found this instead - looks like they might just do it? maybe? http://www.sciencealert.com/german-has-just-successfully-fired-up-a-revolutionary-nuclear-fusion-machine |
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why go for something that might be mothballed as soon as it goes online?
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India is going solar, new wind turbines with no blades. Chimney shaped.
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Hopefully when we are out of the eu we will start mining and build coal power stations, given how fast technology moves they will be able to capture the carbon emissions.
Sadly we are probably tied to mass murderer Blairs promises on going green. Newclear power has advanced too, they are already making inroads so that the waste product can be burnt again. |
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One can capture carbon emissions but having done that, what can we do with them?
We can capture Nuclear waste products, the same problem, what can we do with it. Zorro, we are a long way from getting Nuclear Fusion that works. Unless it produces more energy out than in we have not achieved anything. Germany will not go the Nuclear power route they are relying on renewables solar and wind. This is inefficient and costly to build. But once built would give them free energy, sunlight and wind are free. I believe we ourselves should do more in this direction. |
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I read that Germany banned nuclear power stations following the tsunami which wrecked a Japanese power station. Because they get so many tsunamis in Germany
 As a result Germany cannot generate sufficient electricity to meet their needs so have to import it from France - who generate it in nuclear stations  You truly couldn't make this stuff up |
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6 pints in no problemo
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If a Nuclear Power station blows up, it blows up in France not Germany, that's the logic eldar
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They banned Nuclear power before the tsunami.
Still you never know we may get a tsunami? The UK is separated form Europe by a Tsunami that happened in 6100 BC, caused by a collapse of rock into the sea from Norway. It came 25 miles inland. That was in a Neil Oliver program. |
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If you travel across Germany, it seems that virtually the whole country is covered in wind farms!
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I think we should do that myself
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They should be banned except for offshore, maybe.
These things make a constant noise and make the countryside look unnatural. We could get all our renewable energy from wave power....we have a massive coastline. |
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^ Wind Turbines...thatis.
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I'm not too fussed which road we go down as long as it is not owned by foreign companies
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We disagree there Leopard
fair enough I think they look good |
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I am not sure wave power works, wind power does
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In 2007 Strangford Lough became home to the world's first commercial tidal stream power station, SeaGen. The 1.2 megawatt underwater tidal electricity generator, part of Northern Ireland's Environment and Renewable Energy Fund scheme, takes advantage of the fast tidal flow in the lough which can be up to 4 m/s. Although the generator is powerful enough to power up to a thousand homes, the turbine has a minimal environmental impact, as it is almost entirely submerged, and the rotors turn slowly enough that they pose no danger to wildlife.[13][14][15]
From wiki. |
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Hydro is an environmental disaster for fish .
In the US they are reversing many of the projects built due to the enviromental impacts on fish . Tidal power may work in a few choice locations but i suspect we are a long way away from harnessing the waves in an economic way ,the sea (saltwater) is a very challenging environment for engineers to overcome . Not to mention the ecological impacts ,even offshore wind the impact on fish ,cetaceans ect are not fully understood ,a lot more work still to be done . If its any consolation my computer and table lamp are powered from solar so all the sh1t i type on here is eco friendly |
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echobelly • August 1, 2016 9:11 PM BST ..
Aug 1, 2016 -- 12:06PM, ebulGery wrote: I am not sure wave power works, wind power does Well Albania produce 90%, give or take, of their energy from hydro power so ask them ebulGery. Hydro power is not wave power is it?...electricity is produced by damming rivers! Tidal power only works in a few locations, as breadnbutter pointed out. Wind farms work anywhere there is wind. |
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new wind turbines without the big blades.
to fit in general scenery. [ This image is no longer available. ] |
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^Will still produce noise pollution.
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basically its best to just pump out invisible deadly poisons.
radiation or carbon monoxide? rather than an eye sore. |
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I see I am convincing no one
 Enough Fossils to see me out out....gl to the future |
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Is this a fission thread?
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why subsidize the oil industry?
fracking? nuclear power stations? fumes smoke radiation earthquakes it's like rooting for doctor doom or lex luthor. It's bizarre. do you want a razorblade with your sandwich sir... |
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*quote and header should read
Well Albania produce 90%, give or take, of their energy from hydro power |
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quote system is like everything else around here
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Norway large Hydro - but they have the landscape for it.
large cliffs etc. Holland I don't think could do it. wind maybe in Holland(netherlands?) |
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you a cliff fan zorro ?
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