Oh! the joy of living under the Soviet EU and policies driven by global warming alarmism:
The unexpected shutdown of two power stations on Tuesday, May 29, led to the worst disruption to the UK’s power network in more than 20 years, prompting new concerns over the stability of Britain’s ageing power grid.
However, industry sources say that a key factor was the European Union’s Large Combustion Plant Directive (LCPD), which sets strict limits on the number of hours that some of Britain’s largest and most heavily polluting coal and oil-fired power stations can operate before they have to close in 2015. The time is measured in “stack hours” — the length of time that chimney stacks, rather than individual generation units, are in use.
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
Remember the chimney tax of yore?
Bit of lateral thinking!
Do the reverse, build a couple of extra stacks, and use them in turn!
A foretaste of what is to come here in Australia under Kyoto Kevin.
Blackouts and load shedding a foregone conclusion, with rising demand and no major base-load power station built in the last 20 years, to appease green fundamentalism.
But then the people will vote, as they did in London.
I guess people aren’t going to wake up and make changes to these idiotic policies because their alarm clocks have just gone away.
The EU response to the Irish vote should be another alarm: “Let them eat cake.”
Be vewwey qwwuiet sharpening those pikes mates, the lairds are on their guard now.
“But then the people will vote, as they did in London.”
Yep. The anger that people are displaying over high gas prices will be nothing compared to what they’ll do if electricity starts becoming too unreliable or too expensive.
They kicked Gray Davis out of office in California because of power blackouts.
Nuclear Power anyone?
Remember a few weeks ago how thousands of homes across the north of England were blacked out because a number of nuclear generators had to shut down rather suddenly because of ‘unplanned’ maintenance. I think if you dig a bit deeper you will find that this present situation is a direct fall out of those nuclear generators still being offline.
The government here in the UK still haven’t got the message – they’re now pushing for a “green revolution” to meet EU targets for 15% of the nation’s energy to come from renewables by 2020. According to the BBC, this will include 3,500 new wind turbines to be installed across the country and “measures to force homeowners to improve the energy efficiency of their homes.”
The total cost? £100 billion.
I don’t think this is going to go down very well.
The US looks forward to the European Union voluntarily crippling its economy.
The EU is well on its way to bankrupting its agricultural sector. When its energy sector is properly broken, opportunities will abound for foreign investment–and, just as after WWII, the Europeans will gratefully welcome being rescued.
This time, rescued from the (gang)Greens.
The Australian government is not being honest and open with the populace about what its carbon capping scheme will mean to average Australians.
The government presents the impact in terms of dollars, so everyone looks at it from an economic and financial viewpoint. But they do not see what will happen to the Australian standard of living.
The clue lies in the Garnaut interim report of Feb this year, figure 8, which shows per capita carbon emissions.
If we take the Australian figure, then reduce it by 60% as is recommended, we are getting close to the Thai emissions level. I know something about Thailand, so it is safe to say that our standard of living will be about the same as theirs. Very few families own cars. A fair percentage own motor bikes. Almost no air conditioning. Amost no refrigeration. Forget the big hot water heater providing the gushing stream for the early morning shower, most shower cold. Few labour saving electrical devices. They live densely packed in small houses.
This is what our standard of living will become if Garnaut has his way.
Be prepared.