Isn't it great I filled my car up at the weekend for 99.7p per liter.
Haven't seen it so low since 2009!
But whilst I like it, globally its not good you know.
Why? because the mega-oil companies will be in trouble and we'll not convert to energy-saving CO2 saving technologies. Only good thing is it isn't worth the Oil companies exploring more for oil/gas.
Live now pay later - you say - yes but what bout your Grandchildren?
Do we want the planet to "burn"?
Why buy an electric car at twice the price of a conventional one, why not get a gas guzzler - you can afford it.
Believe me we'll regret it soon, and the prices will rise. So be sensible, have some fun but don't count on it.
Showing posts with label co2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label co2. Show all posts
Sunday, 17 January 2016
Saturday, 28 June 2014
Free Fuel?
What i would invent is a car powered by water.
Don't laugh.
Electric cars are ok but limited mileage huge heavy batteries won't help and they're expensive and environmentally unfriendly.
What i'd do is use solar energy fuel cells to create hydrogen from water. This could be stored not as a gas but as a livid in a foam using a form of absorbent catalyst. Then to drive it would be a hydrogen powered turbine generating electricity to power the car. Small batteries to provide starting etc. Hydrogen produces water when burnt recycled to be used again! Simple.
Just haven't perfected it yet.
Don't laugh.
Electric cars are ok but limited mileage huge heavy batteries won't help and they're expensive and environmentally unfriendly.
What i'd do is use solar energy fuel cells to create hydrogen from water. This could be stored not as a gas but as a livid in a foam using a form of absorbent catalyst. Then to drive it would be a hydrogen powered turbine generating electricity to power the car. Small batteries to provide starting etc. Hydrogen produces water when burnt recycled to be used again! Simple.
Just haven't perfected it yet.
Tuesday, 4 March 2014
How GREEN is green energy, and where does all the CO2 come from
How GREEN is green energy, and where does all the CO2 come from - Fossil Fuels you say - well look at Concrete! Look at all the Manufacturing that our society does - it needs ENERGY!
We are all familiar with burning fossil fuels and creating CO2, but I wonder about other things in society that consume energy and generate CO2. Concrete is a good example. Who would think that buildings are responsible for huge amounts of Co2 emissions. Anything made of Concrete is fuelling the Carbon emission to the tune of 1:1.
Every ton of cement produces almost a ton of CO2. That's why the concrete is reckoned to be one of the most polluting industries on earth, responsible for up to 5% of total world greenhouse gas emissions.
Think about wind Turbines – Green Energy creating no Carbon but how did they get built? How was the Turbine fabricated – in a factory, Steel create from iron ore, smelted in huge furnaces fuelled by gas/coke/coal producing CO2, then made into a tower with blades and generator on top.
How did it get there – transported by ship/lorry to the site hundreds of miles away. Then the Foundations for a huge 115 m high monolith, concrete every ton of concrete used in the base created 1ton of CO2 .
Not very Green eh?
We are all familiar with burning fossil fuels and creating CO2, but I wonder about other things in society that consume energy and generate CO2. Concrete is a good example. Who would think that buildings are responsible for huge amounts of Co2 emissions. Anything made of Concrete is fuelling the Carbon emission to the tune of 1:1.
Every ton of cement produces almost a ton of CO2. That's why the concrete is reckoned to be one of the most polluting industries on earth, responsible for up to 5% of total world greenhouse gas emissions.
Think about wind Turbines – Green Energy creating no Carbon but how did they get built? How was the Turbine fabricated – in a factory, Steel create from iron ore, smelted in huge furnaces fuelled by gas/coke/coal producing CO2, then made into a tower with blades and generator on top.
How did it get there – transported by ship/lorry to the site hundreds of miles away. Then the Foundations for a huge 115 m high monolith, concrete every ton of concrete used in the base created 1ton of CO2 .
Not very Green eh?
Sunday, 29 September 2013
CO2 killing the planet?
Great idea to contain the CO2 but why can't they pipe it into greenhouses and boost plant growth. Using solar power the plants convert CO2 back to starch and grow.
Thursday, 1 August 2013
Free Electricity from British Gas?
Absolutely ridiculous - "Free Elctricity at weekends".
Are we saving the planet or not?
You know what will happen - folk will blast it at the weekend wthout a care. All this energy comes from somewhere. BG hope you'll forget and continue to have the thermostat up in the week. More profit for them.
Yes SUPPLY=DEMAND - laws of Physics. So huge power stations like Drax (Coal fired) and the Nuclear ones have to run 24x7 they can't switch on and off. Its the BASE load. But we go to bed at night and switch off. We all put the kettle on at half time in the World Cup etc. Solar power is only during the day (light), wind power only works when its windy. So what do the suppliers do - they match the peaks and troughs with Gas powered stations that can go on and off quickly but they are expensive and Gas is not so plentiful.
Unless we get Fracking!
It won't work. We need to conserve energy. What next - only allowed to wash at weekends. Only allowed to boil the kettle when its Windy?
What they need to do is sort out the Grid infrastructure so the power can get to where it is needed. Windmills in the Sea need big cables to get the power to the Cities. We must STOP the Constraint payments. Paying the Companies NOT to Generate - that's what its about. They get 3 times as much NOT generating than when they do. If we didn't have the GREEN subsidy on our bills then there's be no Wind Turbines 'cos they don't make economic sense. Then ALL our bills would be cheaper.
Are we saving the planet or not?
You know what will happen - folk will blast it at the weekend wthout a care. All this energy comes from somewhere. BG hope you'll forget and continue to have the thermostat up in the week. More profit for them.
Yes SUPPLY=DEMAND - laws of Physics. So huge power stations like Drax (Coal fired) and the Nuclear ones have to run 24x7 they can't switch on and off. Its the BASE load. But we go to bed at night and switch off. We all put the kettle on at half time in the World Cup etc. Solar power is only during the day (light), wind power only works when its windy. So what do the suppliers do - they match the peaks and troughs with Gas powered stations that can go on and off quickly but they are expensive and Gas is not so plentiful.
Unless we get Fracking!
It won't work. We need to conserve energy. What next - only allowed to wash at weekends. Only allowed to boil the kettle when its Windy?
What they need to do is sort out the Grid infrastructure so the power can get to where it is needed. Windmills in the Sea need big cables to get the power to the Cities. We must STOP the Constraint payments. Paying the Companies NOT to Generate - that's what its about. They get 3 times as much NOT generating than when they do. If we didn't have the GREEN subsidy on our bills then there's be no Wind Turbines 'cos they don't make economic sense. Then ALL our bills would be cheaper.
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Don Quixote fought Windmills - we mus Fight the Monsters Wind Turbines.
Look I'd have a Wind Turbine in ~My Garden if I could afford the £1.5million to build one. After all its not about Electricity is reaping the rewards from the Government.
Its like winning the Lottery - you could live off the interest for life (well next 25 years).
Its a complete SHAM. Wind Turbines will never solve our Energy crisis or save the planet.
Facts - (see Godfrey Blooms paper on How to Fight Wind Farms)
((I might not agree with his politics but he's spot on with this)
Why aren't folk clamouring to stop the ROCs and the Constraint payments? Its worse than Bankers Bonuses or the Bedroom Tax.
Anyway,
1 x 2.6MW turbine at 30% efficiency will generate over £650000 in one year, or over 25 years £16m. Not to mention the price rises or constraint payments.
However, with regards to CO2
The government estimates that 9.2 million tons of carbon were saved by wind turbines in 2010. That sounds like a lot, but it represents just 0.03% of global emissions. The UK emits 2% of global emissions. Even if the UK emitted no carbon whatsoever, it would make no difference to climate change at all. Wind energy has virtually no chance of making a meaningful contribution to ‘saving the planet’.
Powering every home in the UK with wind farms of equivalent power as the Dun Law wind farm would require 1,788 wind farms and a total of 46,428 wind turbines. That’s one wind turbine every 5 square kilometres, across the entire UK.
What we need to do really is switch to energy saving devices, waste less, use LESS, travel LESS, Work From Home. Now STOP FRACKING. Yes its cheap energy but just creates more CO"=2 - do we really want to KILL our planet?
You decide.
Its like winning the Lottery - you could live off the interest for life (well next 25 years).
Its a complete SHAM. Wind Turbines will never solve our Energy crisis or save the planet.
Facts - (see Godfrey Blooms paper on How to Fight Wind Farms)
((I might not agree with his politics but he's spot on with this)
Why aren't folk clamouring to stop the ROCs and the Constraint payments? Its worse than Bankers Bonuses or the Bedroom Tax.
Anyway,
1 x 2.6MW turbine at 30% efficiency will generate over £650000 in one year, or over 25 years £16m. Not to mention the price rises or constraint payments.
However, with regards to CO2
The government estimates that 9.2 million tons of carbon were saved by wind turbines in 2010. That sounds like a lot, but it represents just 0.03% of global emissions. The UK emits 2% of global emissions. Even if the UK emitted no carbon whatsoever, it would make no difference to climate change at all. Wind energy has virtually no chance of making a meaningful contribution to ‘saving the planet’.
Powering every home in the UK with wind farms of equivalent power as the Dun Law wind farm would require 1,788 wind farms and a total of 46,428 wind turbines. That’s one wind turbine every 5 square kilometres, across the entire UK.
What we need to do really is switch to energy saving devices, waste less, use LESS, travel LESS, Work From Home. Now STOP FRACKING. Yes its cheap energy but just creates more CO"=2 - do we really want to KILL our planet?
You decide.
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