Britain will build new gas power stations, Rishi Sunak has said, as he vows not to risk blackouts to achieve Net Zero. The Telegraph has the story.
The country will need gas as a back-up when there is not enough wind or sun to create renewable energy, the Prime Minister says in an article for the Telegraph.
Despite having pledged to phase out fossil fuels by 2050 to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions, Mr. Sunak says new gas power stations will ensure energy security and therefore the safety of the nation.
Writing in the Telegraph, he says: “When the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing, this is how we will keep your lights on and your bills down.
“It is the insurance policy Britain needs to protect our energy security, while we deliver our Net Zero transition.”
He adds that the approach of the Labour Party – which has pledged to create a green electricity system by 2030, five years earlier than the Tories – would “put us at risk of blackouts”.
Mr. Sunak is seeking to draw a dividing line between the Conservative Party’s approach to Net Zero and that of Labour.
The Government said the move to back new unabated gas plants – meaning their emissions are not captured – was a “common sense” approach to Net Zero, that would ensure the country met its green goals in a “sustainable, pragmatic way”.
It’s obviously good that the PM is investing in reliable sources of energy. But how exactly does building a whole supplementary power system to make up for the unreliability of renewables “keep bills down”? As retired scientist Dr. John Fernley, who has a background in wind energy, said to me this morning when he saw the Prime Minister’s comments:
Yes it will keep lights on but how can it possibly be claimed to be keeping the bills down? Because of the unreliability of renewables we are having to build and operate two parallel energy generation systems, a renewable one for when the wind and sun are favourable and a gas one for when the wind and sun are not favourable. Because we are a windy island renewables will work most of the time. These gas-fired power stations, which are expensive to build and maintain, will therefore be idle for most of the time.
The truth is that if we wanted to keep the lights on and the bills down we would run the gas-fired power stations 100% of the time and close down the renewables which are an expensive folly. Unfortunately successive Conservative Prime Ministers Theresa May, Boris Johnson and now Rishi Sunak have been eco-zealots and committed us to enormously expensive Net Zero policies which will cost ordinary people a great deal and achieve absolutely nothing for the climate because the U.K. is only responsible for 1% of global CO2 emissions. The big emitters in the developing world, meanwhile, are responsible for 65%, of which China alone is 30%, with their emissions rising every year.
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Holy crap. What insanity from the mentally ill pervert crowd. How low do the flipping IQs go? Maybe the Eugenists have a point. Euthansiasts might also be on to something.
Most of these people don’t have children so in due course hopefully there will be less crazy in the gene pool.
Indeed, people that far out on the fringes are generally far less likely to procreate, so the problem is at least somewhat self-correcting.
Academic? Pah!
PhD in Feminist and Gender Studies? Complete Hogwash!
Professor? Don’t make me laugh!
Yet this idiot draws a wage, probably quite generous.
This is nothing more than narcissistic mental illness given far too much credence by the gullible and ‘caring’ who are unwilling/unable to call BS. They deserve zero publicity.
I may look like a middle aged white bloke but I’m actually a 12 y/o, black, one-legged, blind lesbian with autism. How dare you say I’m not.
Well, it’s just got really silly now, hasn’t it?
That’s all.
A piss take from Babylon Bee would have been less absurd. For some reason it made me think of this: THE FUTURE – Leonard Cohen – LETRAS.COM
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Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that’s left
And stuff it up the hole
In your culture
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I’ve seen the future, brother
It is murder
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won’t be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
…..
Destroy another fetus now
We don’t like children anyhow
I’ve seen the future, baby
It is murder
Well speaking of amputations I am absolutely staggered as to how this is able to happen! And you know what the worst thing is? I used to work there.
Given the amount of checks that take place, first on the ward then down at theatre in the anaesthetic room before induction, I honestly cannot fathom this, because even if the surgeon was half asleep ( everybody’s worst nightmare ) the other staff wouldn’t be! Plus the surgeon or registrar always does a great big ‘X marks the spot’ on the ward prior, with marker pen, so there can be no misunderstanding. Totally bizarre. I see no mention of if the surgeon or anyone else from the team has been struck off though, with legal action taken by the patient. Strewth, the NHS really has gone massively Pete Tong in recent years hasn’t it?;
”A hospital has admitted to cutting six people’s limbs off by mistake in the past three years.
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust confirmed six patients had limbs amputated due to medical mistakes over a three year period.
This is the highest number of any NHS trust across the UK.
Four amputations were performed in 2020 and another two were carried out in 2021 at the Yorkshire hospital.
All were results of medical negligence.
But they are not the only trust to have mistakenly carried out the operations.
FOI requests filed by Accident Claims revealed Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust performed two surgeries without needing to.
These types of incidents are referred to as ‘never events’ by the NHS and defined as ‘serious, largely preventable patient safety incidents that should not occur if healthcare providers have implemented existing national guidance or safety recommendations.’
A further five cases of amputations due to medical negligence were confirmed by Medway NHS Foundation Trust in Kent.”
https://metro.co.uk/2024/03/05/yorkshire-hospital-cuts-off-six-peoples-limbs-mistake-20403344/
I read recently that NHS England is considering abolishing or overhauling the national list of safety incidents / ‘never events’. Debatable whether the intent is to improve practice or to cover up incidents…
I’m not sure if the antics of the transableists mean they are brainless, brain dead or just sick in the head!
Ive had feelings like this myself. Like parts of my body didn’t really belong to me. I am not talking about genitalia and obviously I wouldn’t make a political point out of it. If you follow the right path you will learn why your body parts don’t fit and that begins a process of laughing at the state of your own ridiculousness. Buddha said that laughter is the only divine human trait. And then a lot of the blockages and difficulties within your body start to resolve themselves. Ultimately it lies in the breath which is much more subtle than we realise. If we had a deeper understanding of our existence and spirit and soul then all of this would become clear to us. We speak as diseased creatures casting scorn on the most visible manifestations of a malaise that we all share.
It is a fatal mistake in a time of trbulaton to allow the overseers to divide the population again and again. The nation state is far from perfect but it is tte best protection we have, If we are Brits we need to include everyone in our equation. In the 1930s homsexual behaviour became quite prevalent in British universities, Bohemianism along with strong traditionalism can co-exist. There is no preclusion in a strong state which looks after its own and this country has betrayed its own for so long that the people cannot attain a state of calm anymore. The whole aesthetic realm and the world of imagining has been disrupted. I would say that the first step is to bring this back. Regardless of the situation you can engender a mood among the people.
People from the far east say that westerners are ‘top heavy’. It is a description of physical movement and the western sense of the primacy of the head as the seat of the brain and consciousness. On a bodily level western martial arts tend to be very upper body reliant with this tendency increasing the further north you go. We learned a lot of things as Europeans during the ice age but we also forgot a few things. I can say honestly if you can develop upper and lower coordination it will be an example to others and many of the things that might’ve stressed you will disappear.A movement ot the drishti as it is called in Sanskrit, or the point of focus, this changes everything
VOMIT
You didn’t have to watch this nasty broadcast. Even in my twenties, when this came out, I saw it for what it was. Maybe you are late to the party it doesn’t matter. We aspire to something higher.
Dear God.
But wait, wouldn’t that be….disability appropriation?
Sorry, don’t have the stomach to read this but I am sure to some it is useful to know what goes on.