UK electric rates are 60 cents per kwh????? Holy smackers!!!!! I pay 14 cents per kwh, and I thought that was high. At 60 cents, I would put solar on every inch of my property.
Not sure, but they might have taken the baseline you get eg when your provider went bancrupt or you couldn't find a good one before moving in. At least that's how it is in Germany. Contracts are usually better. For example, I pay 27.8ct/kWh here, though that is already a mad good contract since it ia running for a while now; new ones are extremely expensive, I admit that. Thankfully, thede will be subsidies and a cap to most likely 30ct/kWh soon, and pay out 300€ to everyone directly, which will hopefully help. I also started to lower my consumption as much as I can; basically switched everything I could to multi-sockets that you can turn off, which should help. They are all new and good quality, too, so it should be fine and nothing will draw any power when not in use. Also tinkered with power settings for my computer, too, which also saves a couple watts.
But since I don't live in the UK, I cannot tell how bad it actually is there. I did hear from someone who lives there that they might consider planned blackouts in winter, though, so it is quite possible.
The UK is in extreme terrible spot right now because they decided to go green. Which makes absolutely no sense. And now the prices are skyrocketing. SO STUPID.
They better start building some new nuclear power plants quickly. Germany is screwed too and California is screwing them selves with the same stupid agenda
Solar power is never going to cut it and water power isn’t going to cut it the only thing that can save people is the new types of nuclear reactors that are much safer than the old. There is no such thing as clean energy unless we had solar cells that were 100% efficient and way to store all the power which we don’t.
And for anyone who thinks that oil is going to go away you are insane. There would be no way to make any kind of plastic. And plastic is critical to our economy in case you haven’t noticed it’s in everything so all the green weenies are stupid and their policies are absolutely ridiculous
The same goes for all the morons running the United States right now in power. It’s time to take our country back
There won’t be an electric economy without nuclear power.
Just that Germany's issue comes from the gas crisis, since, well...
German primary energy consumption amounted to 12,193 Petajoule, with more than 75% coming from fossil sources, 6.2% from nuclear energy and 16.1% from renewables.
Not all that much emphasis on renewable energy which you blame. Btw, at the start of the year, over 14% of the energy produced here came from natural gas, now it's a bit more than 11% still. That's quite a lot and price increases and scarcity here have a big impact on pricing. So no, it's not because we are "going green", not even close. Btw. 1/3 of energy comes from coal. Very green indeed.
Sources: Wikipedia and
https://markets.businessinsider.com...hird-electricity-coal-natural-gas-2022-9?op=1
btw, we are actively reducing plastic year over year, and alternatives such as plastics made from starch are a thing. In any case, needing a lot of plastic is absolutely nothing to be proud of or which should be continued, seeing how devastating that trash is for the environment and subsequently us, too. We are most likely already ingesting it via our food, especially fish. We shouldn't make it worse.
But since you are such an expert on nuclear energy, maybe you could answer some questions? For example, where to get all the material needed to keep the power plants running, and do you know how much energy transport, processing, and disposal costs? Talking about disposal, where is the best place to do so? I'm sure you know the answer to all those questions. Come to think of, acquisition is an issue for all fossil fuels. Where do you want to get it from? Do you know of any undiscovered deposits geologists didn't detect yet? What about the environmental issues coming from mining those?
Last, if you want to die in a natural catastrophy caused by climate warming or from an accident on a nuclear power plant, be my guest. Please leave the rest of us out of that, though.
Edited for typos.
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