Lack of investement in the UK. This is exactly what we're missing as a country. Fossil fuels have a finite life, we should've been investing in renewable energy and the inmdustry around it but the oil lobby are hampering it, we were world leaders in solar panels, no government support so germany then China took the lead. I'm not a Starmer supporter but to be fair I doubt any MP except for the local one and the energy secretary would know that kind of thing to that level of detail.Condor68 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2024 10:00 amThought it was amazing that after a visit to Glasgow Stammer said he was unaware that all the windmills in Scotland and nearly all the associated infrastructure were made or controlled overseas.We have a large field being built offshore here and all the field to shore work has been down by Norwegians (going by the flags on the ships)I googled the Floating crane that was used to erect the towers and it was Dutch.Towers came from China or Far East apparently.Thats a lot of money flowing out of the country to be unaware off,and that is only one part of a massive project.Its been paused now as they cant get a boat to take the towers to the field. Suppose thats Labour for you.
Regarding the earlier comment about John Smith,he very nearly got me to vote Labour and I knew a lot of people who thought the same.
Free electricity anyone?
https://www.thelocal.no/20230904/why-os ... -on-monday
If we are to go ahead with hydrogen powered vehicles we'll need to generate more electricity to seperate the hydrogen and oxygen in sea water, its doable if anyone has the will.
Tories pushing nuclear energy. In October 2013, the government announced that it had agreed a contract for difference for the electricity production of Hinkley Point C with a strike price of £89.50 per MWh, with the plant expected to be completed in 2023 and remain operational for 60 years. Construction is not now expected to be complete until at least 2029, and costs have more than doubled. In 2013 we could've bought electricity from France for £37.94/MWh.
"As of May 2022, the project was two years late and the expected cost stood at £25–26 billion, 50% more than the original budget from 2016. In February 2023, EDF announced that costs would rise to £32.7bn in 2023 prices and operation would be delayed by a further 15 months to September 2028. In January 2024, EDF announced that it estimated that the final cost could rise up to £46 billion in 2024 prices and be delayed by up to three years to 2029-2031.
