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IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
stickyYes, it's similar to the thing with electric cars. As we need to reduce the level of atmospheric CO2, the best you can say for EVs is that they don't make things worse as quickly as ICE cars, but each one made is still increasing CO2.
I've often wondered if sequestration seemed truly implausible whether there would be real emissions reduction plans or if it would just lead to the BAU / "adaptation" conclusion
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Chris Packham urges protesters to stop blocking roads as he takes climate role
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Carbon Intensity Forecast (gCO2/kWh)
Scotland 1 very low
Wales 120 moderate
England 138 moderate
Of course this is just power generation and ignores all direct use of fossil fuels to heat homes and power transport. Highland residents may have very green power but end up burning logs and own large ICE cars. EVs starting to appear more but not like Edinburgh.
@arellcat
Carbon capture may be the biggest con of the lot. I note that ScotGov wants bit of the action though. I don't know why they bother! Billions of pounds that could insulate homes and use surplus wind power on proven electric trains & trams that would change people's travelling habits. Plus some spare cash for active travel that would improve health and cut down strain on NHS.
Letter from FM extract...
Dear Keir,The Scottish Government has noted the UK Government’s announcement today of up to £21.7bn of funding for the two carbon capture and storage projects in the North East and North West of England. Our Scottish Government’s Green Industrial Strategy prioritises CCUS as one of our five priorities to realise the economic benefits of the global transition to net zero.
North of England may not capture any carbon worth speaking of but £27bn will be hoovered up cleanly!
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The strategy was first proposed in 2018 by the Conservative government, which originally aimed to introduce it by 2023. But Dominic Hogg, an environmental consultant and EPR expert, said the scheme’s implementation had been “abysmally slow”.
Food companies and analysts have warned that the costs of the scheme will be passed on to consumers, with estimates of an extra 2p on a jar of mustard, 4p on a bottle of beer and 9p on a bottle of wine.
However, the government published new estimates for the base fees for the scheme last week that are lower than previous figures after lobbying from the industry over the costs.
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Good God! Will we ever rid this plague of a handful of corporations ensuring the destruction of Earth's life support systems?
UK’s £22bn carbon capture pledge follows surge in lobbying by fossil fuel industry, records showScope of oil and gas influence underscores concerns technology will prolong demand for planet-heating natural gas
Why should Govs be expected to foot the bill for large scale, ongoing, pollution.
I thought Ed Miliband had a better understanding of ‘the issues’.
Clearly I’m wrong.
Record emissions, temperatures and population mean more scientists are looking into possibility of societal collapse, report says
How many more warnings is it going to take, before people start to act? The government isn’t going to do it for you…
“The government isn’t going to do it for you”
True, but those with the money prefer business as usual (or breaking things for the fun of it) and relying on the ‘promise’ of technological fixes…
Scotland of course has a policy to discourage using too much electricity with high charges and possibly means tested winter fuel allowance.;-)
Octopus Energy 'boss' Rachel Fletcher suggests we could have lower prices than rUK. That could never happen as would be contrary to UK single market?
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24638590.sweden-shows-zonal-energy-pricing-boost-scottish-economy/
Fletcher also told The National zonal pricing would give Scotland the “cheapest electricity in Europe” which could, at times, be free to consumers.She stressed Scots were getting the “raw end of the deal” in the UK’s outdated energy market, which she has insisted could turn into a “national scandal” in the years to come because of wind farms being paid to turn off, or “constrained”.
At the moment, Britain has one national energy price even though at any point in the day the cost of producing electricity differs radically around the country.
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Demis Hassabis: from video game designer to Nobel prize winner
Google DeepMind chief believes in benefits of AI but says risks must be taken as seriously as the climate crisis
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“but those with the money prefer business as usual (or breaking things for the fun of it)”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/10/slash-and-burn-is-private-equity-out-of-control
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A new hydropower revolution is under way in Scotland, which has the potential to unlock vast energy reserve capacity.
It is underpinned today with the announcement by the UK Government of a support mechanism expected to help pave the way for new energy projects such as pumped hydropower storage.
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An entrepreneur has told how he became an overnight millionaire with the sale of a vast energy storage facility near a famous Scottish loch.
The Lanarkshire-based businessman banked a considerable fortune at the age of 50 with the sale of a power plant plan to Europe's largest generator of renewable energy.
Mark Wilson, chief executive of Intelligent Land Investments, last year sold the huge consented pumped storage hydropower project, then called Red John after a local lochan and now known as Loch na Cathrach, to Statkraft, which is owned by the Norwegian state.
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“We are doing a lot of lithium batteries as well, there’s now still only nine of us in this office, but we are doing 4.5 gigawatts of energy storage which I am proud to say is more than any company in the UK.”
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“We are focusing on investment because the mission of growth, in this country especially, demands it,” Starmer will say. “Private sector investment is the way we rebuild our country and pay our way in the world. This is a great moment to back Britain.”
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Between Keir Starmer taking office on July 5 and October 8 (the most recent date for which there was data before this story was filed), a total of £104,170,855 was paid to shut down wind farms across the UK, according to figures from the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF).The overwhelming majority of this total – a massive £100,393,530 – has been paid to wind farms in Scotland. Over the same period, just £3,627,847 was paid to stop energy production on English wind farms, and just £149,482 was paid to generators in Wales.
From National. Obviously was paid too before Labour got in power.
Either shows how embarrassingly rich Scotland is on renewables or why interconnects should be better. (Although people in North East are not happy with giant pylons.)
£100m paid to SEE etc to shut down Scotland windfarms versus £4m in rest of GB.
Nice business to be in!
It also shows that we should have cheaper poower in Scotland!
I've switched to Octopus Agile tarrif recently and it's interesting to see there have been times where the price has gone negative (and also a few times where the prive has been just under 70p); But there isn't much difference here beween Scotland and the South of England.
Good shout, Hydro just put my Direct Debit up £58 in prep for winter. i am in credit so will go Octopus. Or look.into. It at least.
I'm on Octopus tracker. Generally works out around 20p per kw/h. Did lots of spreadsheet shenanigans after an EV purchase to see what was cheapest. Unless you are super disciplined about turning stuff on when it's cheap (on Agile) it's easier to just use Tracker and it's not really that much more expensive per year. It's still cheaper then Intelligent Octopus Go, their EV tarrif, unless you are doing a high mileage and charging lots overnight.
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