Potus ???

[GarethM]

From what I hear they're reopening old nuclear power plants, as they're also realising the time scale for new is daft as you just down rate a power station and won't need to swap out the fuel as much.

 

Personally, all the pwr just makes it far too complicated and electric nation is not practical, say a gas boiler is 25Kw+ for every home is a lot of electricity.

 

Low pressure town based nuclear district heating is the real solution, sealed and safe using the gas pipework infrastructure for central heating.

[Johnsond]

5 hours ago, Steven P said:

Not forgetting that Trump had a cosy behind closed doors one on one chat with Putin, often considered that Putin knows more about Trump than Trump knows about Putin, but also Trump can be read like a book a lot of the time. Says what he is thinking with no filters, priceless if you want to do a deal with him.

 

 

 

 

I know this won't be a mega popular idea, but said it before, the UK needs energy security - green energy is fastest to bring online, nuclear as a base load takes 25+ year (needs starting now), and taking away our reliance of foreign supplied oil and gas - considering that the foreign oil is controlled by the more interesting countries and leaders (Putin and Trump included there), and the known supplies are running down (could be a close thing, oil runs out or a meteor strike in 2032)

 

Pure ideological garbage from start to finish. 

[Big J]

8 hours ago, GarethM said:

From what I hear they're reopening old nuclear power plants, as they're also realising the time scale for new is daft as you just down rate a power station and won't need to swap out the fuel as much.

 

Personally, all the pwr just makes it far too complicated and electric nation is not practical, say a gas boiler is 25Kw+ for every home is a lot of electricity.

 

Low pressure town based nuclear district heating is the real solution, sealed and safe using the gas pipework infrastructure for central heating.

 

No, heatpumps are the future of heating. 25kW is almost never needed and even it it were, the 4:1 efficiency ratio of heat pumps reduces that to just over 6kWh.

 

In the middle of winter, we use about 40kWh a day to fully heat and power our house here in Sweden. It's a big house to heat as well. It's well insulated, but equally, it's nearly 70 years old with it's original double glazed windows.

 

My friend here works as a safety engineer at the local nuclear power plant. He's said that the spikes in energy production are the biggest issue with renewables, as dumping the excess electricity is problematic. So storage has to be the solution for that problem, where it's electrical (battery) or physical (water based - pumping water uphill to a reservoir in times of energy excess to allow it to power turbines on the way back downhill in times of need).