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Dan Groves
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Dan Groves
@KNP_dan
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United Kingdom Katılım Kasım 2016
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the west midlands is that dense ?
Andrew Hesselden@andrewhesselden
Nice visualisation showing how population density varies around the UK.
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@johndotwills If water was scarce would you give it all to one person for personal use or divide it between many
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And you aren’t bright enough to understand this is about availability not economy.
Your analysis is only useful if you aren’t looking at gross availability of fuel, but instead relative efficiencies.
Nil private jet usage makes only 1.4% of all consumed fuel available for “families who have strived for their holiday”. It’s a rounding error.
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Zack isn’t bright enough to grasp orders of magnitude.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Zack Polanski has called for the Government to temporarily ban private jet travel amid potential jet fuel shortages "While ordinary people pay the price, the super rich are simply getting in their private jets at will – wasting huge amounts of jet fuel"
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Solar panels on farmland. You can’t eat solar panels.
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@TomWright165389 @Alan851603 @omotforest @RandomNoobYT Unfortunately the way private businesses operate prioritises profits. As houses like those are more expensive to build, private house builders copy and paste boring brick cubes which is why new builds are soulless when people have always looked for character in housing.
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@Alan851603 @omotforest @KNP_dan @RandomNoobYT Great, we should liberalise planning so more of these can be built if people like them
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They are so good you have to ban the alternative.
Simon Evans@DrSimEvans
THREAD: A heat-pump tumble dryer could save households more than £700 Lots of overblown reaction to govt phasing out standard dryers – reminds me of when 2009 Mail frontpage wailed about "beloved" incandescent bulbs But heat pump dryers are just a much better technology 1/5
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@jemmm85517813 That is 0.6% of the UK’s land area. Compared to the estimated 70% that is covered by agricultural land. Literally not even a drop in the ocean.
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Tragic! We need to stop this happening.. We need food security.
Hands Off Our Marsh@handsoff_marsh
By 2030, solar farms are forecast to cover 8.8 to 12.7 times the entire UK motorway footprint—reaching 100,800 to 146,000 hectares compared to the motorways’ 11,475 hectares. This expansion would happen in just 6 years, compared to the 67 years it took to build the motorway network.
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@ReturnOfDadbo As much as it doesn’t stop trump being a nonce, fill up at a supermarket. It’s 1.43 at Tesco near me
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Fucking diabolical.
All this because Donald Trump is a Paedophile.
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@ibizateacher @RetsofNevets But you can see your inputs and withdrawals and source accordingly. This is exactly what octopus energy does .
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EXACTLY !
In the UK there are not two separate national electricity grids, one green and one non-green. Electricity from all generators flows into the same interconnected grid system, and once it is on the grid you cannot tell “which electrons” in your socket came from wind, gas, nuclear or solar. NESO operates the national electricity system for Great Britain, and Ofgem’s renewable certification scheme is about accounting and sourcing, not a physically separate green network.
So when an energy supplier says you are on a “100% renewable electricity tariff”, that normally means the supplier has matched your usage with renewable electricity purchases and/or Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin certificates, known as REGOs. Ofgem says the REGO scheme provides transparency about the proportion of electricity suppliers source from renewable generation. That is a market and certification mechanism, not a dedicated set of wires coming into your home.
In practical terms, your home receives electricity from the shared grid mix at that moment. If the grid is very windy and solar output is high, the real-time electricity mix is greener. If wind is low and gas generation is high, the real-time mix is less green. Your tariff can support renewable generation financially, but it does not mean your house is physically disconnected from fossil-fuel generation
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Many companies claim to use only renewables , however it all comes from the same national grid .
John J 🇬🇧@ibizateacher
Since we have so many different energy suppliers, why not have the option of a 100% green energy supplier. They can supply (only) green renewable electricity to all the green zealots - without any resource to oil or gas. If it’s cheaper, good luck to them. Let the market decide. Personally, I prefer the convenience & consistency of fossil,fuels, not least of all in midwinter when the sun doesn’t shine & the wind doesn’t blow, I’d rather not freeze to death.
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@lenatrobins 1) Google octopus energy
2) look at this link neso.energy/news/britains-…
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This is only possible if the net zero muppets have a separate grid to supply it.
This is where customers of ecotricity who are paying for green energy get their electricity from the National Grid which is powered mostly from gas and oil and not wind.
John J 🇬🇧@ibizateacher
Since we have so many different energy suppliers, why not have the option of a 100% green energy supplier. They can supply (only) green renewable electricity to all the green zealots - without any resource to oil or gas. If it’s cheaper, good luck to them. Let the market decide. Personally, I prefer the convenience & consistency of fossil,fuels, not least of all in midwinter when the sun doesn’t shine & the wind doesn’t blow, I’d rather not freeze to death.
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@TomWright165389 @Alan851603 @omotforest @RandomNoobYT It’ll just be another Halogen light bulb and 900W vacuum cleaner.
Nobody will remeber or wish for it to be returned once the headlines disappear
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@KNP_dan @Alan851603 @omotforest @RandomNoobYT Forcing honest energy ratings onto mass produced appliances seems reasonable, deciding that people can’t use the higher energy use items which may have other benefits is too far in my opinion
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@TomWright165389 @Alan851603 @omotforest @RandomNoobYT No, but the government enforces energy ratings on electrical appliances which has gradually reduced domestic energy consumption by 26% since 2007. Good way to aid the consumer, banning these dryers is part of this plan
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@KNP_dan @Alan851603 @omotforest @RandomNoobYT That’s nonsense, did the government invent the heat pump dryer?
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@TomWright165389 @Alan851603 @omotforest @RandomNoobYT The ability to compare running costs is a product of government intervention. When a new technology becomes available that reduces it further better comparison can be made by phasing out older models to ensure people get a machine that is efficient and suits their needs
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@KNP_dan @Alan851603 @omotforest @RandomNoobYT I don’t think he should be allowed to vote for government intervention if he can’t compare running costs when buying an appliance
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@Alan851603 @omotforest @KNP_dan @RandomNoobYT If you can’t be bothered to compare the running costs maybe you shouldn’t be allowed to make any decisions for yourself
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@omotforest @RandomNoobYT You ban the more expensive to run competition for consumer protection. If it brings bills down it’s a better purchase but the general consumer will likely pay attention to purchase price rather than running costs.
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@RandomNoobYT Where are you getting that data from?
And also why ban the competition?
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@EdwynNich2828 @Raf_THFC @TonyB_1997 @TiceRichard I agree that genuine environmental improvement is best and I am all for it as much as the next person. Unfortunately for us and the environment land owners and the government are reluctant to change/support such policies. I think the push for solar is a balance of interests
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@KNP_dan @Raf_THFC @TonyB_1997 @TiceRichard Well,
I never said farmland is always good for biodiversity.
However, farmland can be better for biodiversity than covering farmland with solar panels.
Surely a wildflower meadow used for light grazing or hay cultivation is better than a solar farm.
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SAVE OUR TUMBLE DRYER
Mad Red Ed Miliband wants to ban traditional tumble dryers to meet Net Stupid Zero
Reform will scrap his absurd ban
Long Live the Tumble Dryer digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/2419/read…
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@SBruve30045 @KNP_dan @Raf_THFC @TonyB_1997 @TiceRichard Well,
Biodiversity is indeed about more than birds.
However, your total disregard for birds of prey and your ignorance of their importance to maintaining healthy ecosystems tells me that you're not an individual which much interest in protecting the environment.
Obviously.
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@EdwynNich2828 @Raf_THFC @TonyB_1997 @TiceRichard I’m not against biodiversity, I’m against the argument that farmland is good for biodiversity. If installing solar panels lifts biodiversity when compared with farmland then it’s a win win in my book. I understand that leaving the land to nature is best!
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@KNP_dan @Raf_THFC @TonyB_1997 @TiceRichard Lol.
You know what further boosts biodiversity?
Removing the solar panels and turning the field into a wildflower meadow.
Rather than blocking birds of prey from their food.
However, I don't think biodiversity is really of interest to you.
Is it?
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