John Marwood
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Haven't yet finished reading Withnail's link to the 292 page fracking report so will not comment on that yet but...
Surely the best way for us all to have cheap and green energy is to build a shit-load of nuclear power stations? Problem solved, providing they are constructed with safety in mind.
Surely the best way for us all to have cheap and green energy is to build a shit-load of nuclear power stations? Problem solved, providing they are constructed with safety in mind.
I disagree with the environmental impact and risk. We get earth tremors from mines around all the time. I believe that the environmental argument has been lost.
And as a nps is built for profit and the government commissioning it is made up of eejits how do you really expect, earthquakes from fracking aside, to construct one safely..
Stop the world eating pork, build houses from straw, eat less
The Japanese are fairly keen on nuclear safety and currently have half a million tons of radioactive water stacking up at Fukushima - and now beginning to enter the ground water...
If we just used a bit less energy, it might help. is it necessary to light the whole of Sainsbury's car-park to almost daylight levels all night - etc..?
Do we need to illuminate almost every road-sign? Or heat shops to high levels with the doors wide open?
We do, effectively, depend totally on nuclear energy - it all comes from the Sun. Some of it arrives every day as direct radiation and drives the weather systems for wind and rain-based sources - and some of it is stocked up from the past as chemical energy. And there's nuclear energy, from the Sun's ancestors. And there's the small amount of tidal energy that we use, which is partially Solar, but mostly Lunar.
Is fracking even actually proposed for Balcombe?
I thought that 'ordinary natural gas' was largely methane.
Why would 'our gas price' come down if we left the EU?
There are people who worry about the possibility of contaminating ground waters - and there could also be a little less emphasis on carbonless energy sources as a result - perhaps.
And there seems likely to be a link between some small tremors around Blackpool and the initial fracking experiments there.
My understanding is that the risk of tremors intensifies the potential environmental impact - tremors could damage the well shaft which could in turn see the chemically-loaded* injected water leaking into the water table and beyond.
I believe that the environmental argument has been lost only inasmuch as it has disappeared behind lots of bulging £ signs in many eyes.
* Example of a 'loaded' comment
493,000 well heads in the US and 1000 complaints. Flaring, methane leakage and water contamination. Is the issue all fracking or not doing it correctly in some cases.
There are some who quite like the idea of doing it over the fence from a stockbroker's back garden...
We have tremors regularly in Staffordshire. We just don't notice them.
The Green MP said that fracked has a higher concentrate of methane whilst natural gas may also have butane etc. less harmful she said.
In the link i posted above the general conclusions (based on skim reading on my part) seem to be that most of the hazards can be mitigated against if a sound regulatory system can be adopted. The question is can it, and will it be effective?
Gas prices coming down would because we would not have the EU energy taxes to worry about
Anyone who buys land and does not ensure they own the hunting, shooting, fishing and mineral rights in that land is an idiot.
This is all based on a predict and provide approach. Successive governments have failed with energy policy but it is not simply about building more capacity. The huge failure is in not reducing consumption and not properly investing in energy efficiency. Most UK homes are still not that efficient.The Green brigade must be living in cloud cuckoo land if they think renewables on their own are going to meet our energy needs alone. They are against nuclear, and coal and gas which make up virtually all our electricty production and due to the unreliability of wind power other forms of generation are needed to kept as back up.
Only recently it was reported how surplus generation has fallen and will continue to fall to the point where the National Grid will probulary fail to meet demand at peak times leading to black outs. Successive governments have failed build enough capacity when they warned about the forthcoming crunch of closing older nuclear stations and closing coal fired stations to reduce the carbon emissions.
That's not to say renewables haven't a place in the overall plan but realistically for now only a small percentage. I would like to think that within the next 30 or 40 years science will master nuclear fusion but until then we need a credible energy production plan.
Fracking has been a success in America with gas prices lowered and if it is viable in this country then it should go ahead.
This is all based on a predict and provide approach. Successive governments have failed with energy policy but it is not simply about building more capacity. The huge failure is in not reducing consumption and not properly investing in energy efficiency. Most UK homes are still not that efficient.
Most (not all) replies have been silent on the subject of efficiency and also anaerobic digestion to produce gas. Why frack when there is a greatly under utilised source of gas that is not difficult to produce and puts waste to good use?
Weren't they advertising for people to go on Come Dine With Me in the Stafford area. I'm sure you and HC would make entertaining contestants and you never know a bromance might develop.Not that he would accept an invite to my house anyway, but I am struggling to think of anyone I would welcome to a dinner party any less than HC. Or go for a pint with.
Does anyone know him outside of the forum - I mean, has he any friends?