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Exactly what the BBC article covered today and there was little fault to be found in the argument, and at the same time little comfort either. I appreciate the issues with hydrogen are getting it unstuck from whatever it is attached to and then storing it so it doesn't go boom (bit like petrol really...). My simple view is that almost everything used for energy production and energy use, especially rare earth metals and minerals, is finite. Hydrogen is for all intents and purposes, limitless and fantastically energy dense, like almost 3 times more energy dense than petrol. It MUST happen... Singing from the same hymn sheet

Fingers crossed the weather forecast stays dry, this should be a good gathering, hoping it stays nice enough to have a run out afterwards too.

I'd be very surprised if the reserve is as anywhere near as low as that. But good luck!

Ive been bidding away, under 24hrs left now up to 10.5k

Done

Ive had reports of no email received so check your spam box as email was sent to multiple recipients 👍

Hi All, Just under 2 weeks now to go before the tour! Is everyone ready? I have just created the tour Whatsapp group chat so we can all keep tabs on who is lost where 🤣 Ive added the folks who's mobile I know and emailed the rest with a link to join the Whatsapp group. Anybody who has not received please PM me to sort 👍 Marcus

Arrived at base carrot in pateley bridge Yorkshire. The road in was bumpy lol

When thinking about nuclear the costs rarely include decommissioning, and the UK has all the waste its ever generated in storage!

Yes make sure you take oxygen with you!

My solution would be renewables but base load covered by nuclear, a mix of large plants as well as plenty of SMRs spread about the place for resilience and responsiveness. Ideally, surplus renewables would be stored in something better than batteries. Gravity, salt, even converting to hydrogen despite it being horribly inefficient. Better than turning off the turbines and paying folk to NOT generate power. Madness. Burning stuff is last resort. But, I've no 'skin in the game' the saying goes. I'll be dead soon enough and have no "legacy" to worry about.

The problem here is that we always “do” the wrong thing, because it’s cheap, simple, and quick. The process goes like this in business and in government: 1) We must do something 2) This is something! 3) Therefore we must do this Which also proves that dogs are cats: 1) My dog is domesticated and has four legs and a tail 2) Cats are domesticated and have four legs and a tail! 3) Therefore my dog is a cat

Kit Car Event at The Motorist on Saturday 9th August. https://www.facebook.com/share/1EnzVy2LQE/

I’d be interested in the tub and rear arches?

Yes will do hopefully tomorrw

If you want low carbon, then Nuclear. SMRs look interesting. Otherwise natural gas. We're sitting on loads of it. Just have one set of reliable dispatchable generation capability.

It would make much more sense to use the intermittent generators (ie windmills) to do something like generating hydrogen on site and just use the reliable generators like nuclear to supply the grid.

Tidal and not let governments give away the revenue from oil in tax cuts.

Apparently they are sold out of blue and are not planning to restock the product. Still have silver though.

This may be suitable? https://darkicedesigns.com/products/ford-petrol-oil-cap-zetec-duratec-ecoboost-f-acc-099-102

@Euan Hoosearmy What do you propose as a solution?

They're building one of those just down the road from me at the moment.

Your bills keep going up as you're paying for two sets of generating infrastructure and the crazy schemes to balance production and demand... Wind and Solar are unreliable, when working at full output they can produce enough to meet a good proportion of demand.... but the sun don't shine at night and the wind doesn't always blow so you need enough nuclear and gas stations to be able to meet the same demand when it's dark and calm. We don't actually have enough capacity so we have to import from various sources in mainland europe often at exorbitant cost. Batteries - don't even go there.... just don't have the capacity to be able to keep the grid running for any period of time. The larger battery implementations in the US have a nasty history of fires and the locals in California are getting fed up with them : https://ctif.org/news/bess-fires-residents-sue-energy-companies-after-massive-toxic-battery-fire-moss-landing-power#:~:text=Monterey County%2C CA – Following a massive lithium-ion,of failing to maintain adequate fire safety measures. Keep an eye on https://gridwatch.co.uk/ to see how often the renewables/unreliables aren't producing what's needed.

V2G could help balance the grid and reduce the insanity, but that’s a long way off. More nuclear would be good, particularly the small local plants. Quite how we managed to screw up the windfall of North Sea Oil so badly is no mystery really. Just see where the money went. Hydrogen has a place but there are some fundamentals that need solving before it’ll reach any scale. Green production being the first, then will come storage and distribution. Until we have way more electricity generation than we know what to do with, and a large scale process of production, hydrogen can’t really be much more than a curiosity I don’t think.

A little harsh. I doubt any politician or industry expert saw "this" coming. We, like France, should have built more nuclear power stations but the same is true, no-one saw "this" coming so we didn't. The nuclear nay-sayers might well argue that pylons are prefereable to plutonium (ok, Uranium, but I like aliteration...). So we're left with "we must do something" and the government du jour will do something that the majority will object to and when voted out the next lot will fully or partially dismantle it for something equally unplatable. I think what we can agree on is net zero by 2030 is not going to happen in real life, but the numbers will say it has and it will be clear that we all payed for this **** show as usual. If they could just all agree that hydrogen is the way forwards we could get some stuff done...