To think footballers taking the knee is hypocritical?

25Avalon

How about harnessing the Severn Bore? Or if I remember rightly there was a tidal scheme for Swansea Bay which would have produced plenty of renewable energy but was chucked out as being too expensive. What price the planet?

There were other reasons why the Swansea scheme was rejected.

Do you mean the Severn Barrage, 25Avalon?
There were protests on ecological grounds but many still think it should go ahead.

You’re right Callistemon I do mean the Severn Barrage. I was thinking initially of the large tidal wave, the Severn Bore but that is not all year round. I think the environmental concerns cab be overcome but the government did not want the expenditure at the time. The cost of Hinckley Point keeps going up and is not actually a cheap option. I also think of the Japanese nuclear power station disaster. Japan no longer builds them.

Hinckley Point worries me!
I'd rather have had the Barrage.
DH often mutters about it, he is in favour of tidal and wave power.

Well, I'm sure we'd all like that. But the fact is that renewables do not offer consistent supplies of energy. For a wind farm to even begin to match the output of a traditional power station , it would have to be enormous

How did the thread get on to this?

Does it matter?

Well, I thought it was about renewable energy sources then looked at the thread title!

That's what I enjoy about these discussions. Like real life ones, they can end up in a different place from where they started

Even though Trump is under the impression that your TV won’t work if there’s no wind (no pun intended) most of us know that energy can be stored.

I didn't think that the technology existed to do this. Which is one of the problems with renewables.

www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/03/where-can-renewable-energy-be-stored/

The technology is improving all the time. it is now possible to store renewable energy in much greater amounts than it was in 2015.

I am sorry I don't know how to do links but the following is a small quote from the website www.sciencedirect.com

"Contemporary technologies include pumped hydro storage (PHS), compressed air energy storage (CAES), fuel cells and hydrogen storage (FC-HS), flywheels, supercapacitors (SCs), superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) and various battery systems."

This is where our country could start to be world leaders in this technology, if we just grasp the chance. otherwise we will end up buying renewable energy from other countries who have put much more investment into storage solutions.

We have the brainpower and science in this country, we just need to have confidence and be forward looking.
Nuclear power is yesterdays solution.

Those being trafficked into our country benefits some of the young men that are taking the knee. Cheap sex sells.

What?!!

yes, but we aren't there yet. Maybe one day it'll be the answer, probably quite soon. But we need power now.

Hinkley point won't be ready any time soon, though, if ever.

Any idea what grannypiper was talking about?

We have solar panels and have installed a battery storage unit so we can store the electricity made and use it when the sun isn’t shining. Battery storage units are storing more and taking up less space so renewables could be possible. Modern technology is moving fast on this.