Why I won't be buying a new car anytime soon

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You should do a little more reading on the subject it may help with your confusion, Nuclear and some fossil fuels are here to stay and if coal can be cleaned up in the future, that too will be reintroduced into the mix.

https://assets.publishing.service.g..._data/file/728374/UK_Energy_in_Brief_2018.pdf

I'm sure I posted about https://www.arq.com in a previous discussion.

Scrubbers can be used to 'clean' coal.

I did see an article from a bunch of tree huggers recently where they posted an image of cooling towers describing the CO2 billowing out and that was the dirty fossil fuels. Pity they didn't realise its water vapour. But hey, don't let facts ruin a good whinge ;)

This https://www.rolls-royce.com/products-and-services/nuclear/small-modular-reactors.aspx#/ in concert with local area heat network, insulated buildings.

Its a whole energy system approach required. I was fortunate to have done a gig for the ETI https://www.eti.co.uk under the stewardship of the late Dr David Clarke. Some very clever stuff and long term programmes ongoing. Soon have 15MW offshore wind turbines in operation. https://ore.catapult.org.uk/testing-validation/facilities/powertrains/

107m long blades are commencing test at ORE Catapault https://ore.catapult.org.uk/press-releases/lm-blade-arrives-ore-catpult-blyth/

Samsung have a 15MW turbine, but due to poor quarterly figures and the death of the boss, it was withdrawn. It was on 'Fujin' the 15MW test rig at Blyth. It was called NaREC then, but as always things get rebadged. The 107m blades were developed by a few blokes on the Isle of Wight before GE buying them out.

The 12MW GE one is from their acquisition of Alstom, but still bigger than Siemens or Vestas have.

To give an idea of scale the Nacelle weighs 350tones, is perched 137m above sea level, with the top sweep of the blade 244m above sea level, in water depths of c80m.


The only thing with nuclear power, is that the more it's used the greater the risk of accidents and terrorism etc. I do believe we should be investigating more semi-natural ways of generating electricity such as the mountain Elidir Fawr in Wales (well it would be with that name!) inside it there are 14 kilometres of tunnels housing the Dinorwig Power Station and effectively they pump a few billion gallons of water up the top and when it runs down again through the tunnel system it hydraulically powers massive generators and they produce 1728 megawatts - enough to power 2.5 million homes. It's billed as being "low cost".

They say in this article that the locals call it "Electricity Mountain":

https://www.citymetric.com/horizons/mountain-north-wales-tried-stop-uk-s-blackout-4748

Has there been a nuclear power accident? Human error, poor choice of reactor case material, subsea earthquake causing a tsunami.

Many years ago we used regenerative sets to create electrickery on long distance downhill conveyors. Start using a Isuzu diseasel 4 cylinder pick up truck engine through a 3 reduction gearbox, once the system was moving, dump the bauxite from the feeders and the gen set creates c4.8MW. One in Orissa, India had a 14.7km downhill, long horizontal curves system. One in Jamaica was 10 miles straight downhill. One in venezuela was a bay at 4 miles. Liquid rheostat control, none of that plc shite where a dry joint would stuff you, or an eprom chip go down. In the middle of nowhere you need reliable proper kit. Regen sets made by Brush in Loughborough.

Then again we used lots of electrickery to drive some bigger system uphill, others balanced phil/downhill like Worsley at 52km long with at the time the worlds 2 largest electric motors made by Toshiba in Houston.

All classed as large rotating machines.
 

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The thing about accidents is they don’t happen - they are caused. Chernobyl wasn’t a nuclear accident but it did become a nuclear disaster. And the final containment was due to people some of whom virtually committed suicide.

These joined expressions can be quite annoying - another couple are computer error (99.9% are human or data) * and football hooligans (no such thing but there are hooligans who go to football matches).

* The 0.01 percent:
I had a situation years ago where pats issued appeared the wrong way round and increased stock. After weeks of investigation it was found that an electronic card was at fault - but it was caused by ‘spikes’ occurring when a long train flew by on the adjacent railway!
 
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