Prices of the electricity we use to charge

saneagle

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Last year only 30% of the total electric power generated in the uk used fossil fuel technology. Wind, solar, nuclear and wood pellets generated the rest - about 70%.

The uk for most of the year is not an ideal solar powerhouse, but southern Europe and North Africa could become the new Saudi Arabia if they could sort out the political issues which hold them back. Very high voltage DC transmission could be delivering vast amounts of electric power across the Med with only 10% losses.

It is surprising that more has not been done to utilise the vast amount of sunlight that just heats up sand in N Africa.
Good point. If you think about it logically, the climate has been in equilibrium for millions of years. Energy comes from the sun, does something to the planet, then radiates out into space. When you harness wind, tidal or solar energy, the equilibrium remains the same; however, if you burn stuff, like wood, coal or oil, or you make heat with nuclear ot chemicals (bombs and fireworks), you add heat into the system, which, in theory, should disrupt the equilibrium. Nuclear energy might be clean, but it's not going to solve global warming.
 
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saneagle

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Don't worry, they'll be back soon. The sun is now starting to move away from the Earth after getting closer for hundreds of years, but watch out because every time that's happened before, it triggered a major catastrophic volcanic event within 40 years.
 

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Sadly I'm inclined to agree on the timescale for our return to full. membership, perhaps a return to the good old "Common Market" could be a more immediate prospect?
In the meantime the Brexit voters in Clacton are out celebrating

 
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Good point. If you think about it logically, the climate has been in equilibrium for millions of years. Energy comes from the sun, does something to the planet, then radiates out into space. When you harness wind, tidal or solar energy, the equilibrium remains the same; however, if you burn stuff, like wood, coal or oil, or you make heat with nuclear ot chemicals (bombs and fireworks), you add heat into the system, which, in theory, should disrupt the equilibrium. Nuclear energy might be clean, but it's not going to solve global warming.
Don't worry, they'll be back soon. The sun is now starting to move away from the Earth after getting closer for hundreds of years, but watch out because every time that's happened before, it triggered a major catastrophic volcanic event within 40 years.
You might like this video by one of the best science communicators on the web. Love this guy's work. Well worth a watch.

 
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Ghost1951

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Is Lenny likening Farage to Hitler? I hope not.

One fascinating thing about this election is the way that votes won overall bear no relation to seats and power to make change.

Sin Fein 210 thousand votes 7 seats
SNP 708 thousand votes 9 seats
Lib Dems 3 million votes 71 seats.
Reform 4.1 million votes. 5 seats.
Conservatives 6.8 million votes 121 seats
Labour 9.6 million votes 412 seats

Labour with only a bit more than twice the votes Reform got, have nearly ten times as many seats.
 
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Ghost1951

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Good point. If you think about it logically, the climate has been in equilibrium for millions of years. Energy comes from the sun, does something to the planet, then radiates out into space. When you harness wind, tidal or solar energy, the equilibrium remains the same; however, if you burn stuff, like wood, coal or oil, or you make heat with nuclear ot chemicals (bombs and fireworks), you add heat into the system, which, in theory, should disrupt the equilibrium. Nuclear energy might be clean, but it's not going to solve global warming.
The problem with fossil fuels is that the planet locked away that carbon millions of years ago, stabilising the carbon in the atmosphere. This wasn't done for our benefit of course, we just happen to actually benefit from a benign climate on much of the planet, which was created by the fact that natural processes, over very long time scales locked up that carbon.

Depending on how much of that carbon we burn, and put back into the atmosphere, we will change that balance and warm the planet up.

It won't be the end of life of course, but it may end our civilisations. In periods in the past the planet was far warmer because of vast eruptions of co2 from volcanic activity. There were animals and plenty of them.

They just happened to be very different animals and not at all like us.
 
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This is a great move by Starmer. I am very pleased to see this.


FAR too often, ministers with no clue are appointed to roles they then fail to function in. They have no skills to deal with the tasks in hand. James Timpson has invested heavily for many years in giving jobs to released prisoners and for most of those released prisoners they function well inside his key cutting and shoe repairing business. Timpson will be a winner in this job I think.

MINISTERS SHOULD BE PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO DO THINGS

They usually don't know anything useful and this is why we are in such a mess in a country where nothing works.
 
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FAR too often, ministers with no clue are appointed to roles they then fail to function in.
that is usually seen in conservative administrations.

They usually don't know anything useful and this is why we are in such a mess in a country where nothing works.
there are numerous studies as to why we are stuck in a hole since the sub prime mortage crisis in 2008. Low productivity leads to lower growth compared to the US, the EU, Australia, the BRICS etc. We used to enjoy better living standard than the Americans. Not now. We are about 40% behind the average American.
Of the £3 trillions worth of assets that the LSE manages, little is invested outside London.
Most of our savings go into stoking up house price instead of investing in productive industries. It's the legacy of MT.
 

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one guy ran over his big toe with a wheel chair and that fell off in hospital think it just went in the bin after everyone had a look at it. :oops:


and someone threw one of my shoes in the bin when i went for a ct scan place is a fkn joke no one gives a crap anymore.