I still can’t believe we aren’t heavily investing in renewable hydropower. Considering we are, you know, on a fucking island surrounded on all sides by choppy water.
UK needed to start building multiple new nuclear plants like 10 years ago… just to cover the ones going into defuel/decommissioning now.
Wind, while great on paper, is very questionable as to its lifecycle costs and reliability.
The UK government Labour/Tory are a bunch of braindead wanks.
As are the public… if the UK could provide its baseload by fuelling it with the publics apathy and ignorance we’d be just fine.
Simon Evans has a great thread on twitter where he compares estimates for the impact that various different measures to reduce UK gas demand might have by 2025, as a way of helping plan short-term options for getting off gas. Obviously, there’s a lot more that could be done over the long term, but that’s not really relevant to the immediate situation.
Our overall annual demand for gas is currently around 800TWh, or which 60% is imported. The amount coming from Russia is around 36TWh.
According to figures from the UK oil and gas industry, if drilling was resumed today and there were no issues with planning approval, fracking could add 6TWh to domestic gas supply by 2025. That’s assuming 25% of production is exported.
Getting heat pump installations up to 450,000 per year would reduce demand by 4TWh.
Putting cavity wall and loft insulation in 2 million homes per year would reduce demand by 5TWh.
Adding 2GW of solar and onshore wind capacity per year would reduce demand by 15TWh.
Lowering boiler flow temperatures to make condensing boilers work more efficiently in all homes could reduce demand by up to 17TWh.
And if every home in the UK turned down their thermostat by 1 degree, demand would drop by 21TWh.
But fracking is the worse choice. Therefore clearly the one this bastard will support.
You could make it so that we couldn’t see the forest for the wind turbines across the UK and we would still rely on Russian gas
One project is like to see rolled out is adding more solar thermal as a preheat to normal boilers.
The pilot project needed temp sensors on the inlet and a new control board for the boiler.
Then they were able take water heated to 40degrees by the solar thermal panel and only had to heat it another 25degrees by the gas boiler (so saving half the work needed).
Not as sexy as all new systems and switch to electricity but a great stopgap as demand reduction exercise.
The UK is an island. The amount of ocean power and wind available for power is immense. It’s not like the technology doesn’t exist to do it.
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I still can’t believe we aren’t heavily investing in renewable hydropower. Considering we are, you know, on a fucking island surrounded on all sides by choppy water.
UK needed to start building multiple new nuclear plants like 10 years ago… just to cover the ones going into defuel/decommissioning now.
Wind, while great on paper, is very questionable as to its lifecycle costs and reliability.
The UK government Labour/Tory are a bunch of braindead wanks.
As are the public… if the UK could provide its baseload by fuelling it with the publics apathy and ignorance we’d be just fine.
Simon Evans has a great thread on twitter where he compares estimates for the impact that various different measures to reduce UK gas demand might have by 2025, as a way of helping plan short-term options for getting off gas. Obviously, there’s a lot more that could be done over the long term, but that’s not really relevant to the immediate situation.
Our overall annual demand for gas is currently around 800TWh, or which 60% is imported. The amount coming from Russia is around 36TWh.
According to figures from the UK oil and gas industry, if drilling was resumed today and there were no issues with planning approval, fracking could add 6TWh to domestic gas supply by 2025. That’s assuming 25% of production is exported.
Getting heat pump installations up to 450,000 per year would reduce demand by 4TWh.
Putting cavity wall and loft insulation in 2 million homes per year would reduce demand by 5TWh.
Adding 2GW of solar and onshore wind capacity per year would reduce demand by 15TWh.
Lowering boiler flow temperatures to make condensing boilers work more efficiently in all homes could reduce demand by up to 17TWh.
And if every home in the UK turned down their thermostat by 1 degree, demand would drop by 21TWh.
https://twitter.com/DrSimEvans/status/1500856598872436743
But fracking is the worse choice. Therefore clearly the one this bastard will support.
You could make it so that we couldn’t see the forest for the wind turbines across the UK and we would still rely on Russian gas
One project is like to see rolled out is adding more solar thermal as a preheat to normal boilers.
The pilot project needed temp sensors on the inlet and a new control board for the boiler.
Then they were able take water heated to 40degrees by the solar thermal panel and only had to heat it another 25degrees by the gas boiler (so saving half the work needed).
Not as sexy as all new systems and switch to electricity but a great stopgap as demand reduction exercise.
The UK is an island. The amount of ocean power and wind available for power is immense. It’s not like the technology doesn’t exist to do it.