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@MHutton93 @LBC Nothing to do with any of that. Just the price you pay for being small. The price is we are poorer.

@benbrownuk @LBC oh my GOD it sounds like we wont ever survive without a unelected group of people??? (the EU)

Britain 'to be hit harder than any other G7 economy' by war in Middle East lbc.co.uk/article/britai…

@MissLauraFong @tomhfh The selfish people are the ones like you who made 3x their money back on their property and now block everything so their kids can't get a house at even double what you paid. How much money do you think you need to earn to buy a house down south?

@benbrownuk @tomhfh So you envision a country of people in negative equity... No thanks, I'll keep opposing new developments. The selfish "fcuk everyone who's struggled, I need half price sh1t" doesn't wash. Too entitled. What's stopping Trevor earning extra money?

Greens and Lib Dems most NIMBY voters confirmed. Reform and Tories most BANANA. 2024 Labour voters are the only YIMBY segment by this survey.

@Oh_Come_On_Pls @CleanPowerDave @afneil She does mention that.

@benbrownuk @CleanPowerDave @afneil Her subtle premise that we have no choice but to be increasingly beholden to LNG unless we go down the renewals route. No mention that maybe just maybe we could unblock licencing for gas extraction from the North Sea for income etc.

There is no ‘global price for gas’. How can you be an energy expert and not know that?

@rcolvile @Fat_Jacques @Daodaoldn You didn't complain here. You deliberately obfuscated to imply that it was designed by Ed Miliband. You've only mentioned the Tories once you've been called out.

@Fat_Jacques @Daodaoldn Individual Tories (me) have been complaining about policies the Tories started fairly consistently, since long before the election.

The Future Homes Standard: - Means that from 2028 new homes CANNOT be on the gas network - Your home HAS to have solar panels on the roof, equivalent to 40% of the ground floor area - It will cost £10,000 more to build Homes designed by Ed Miliband, paid for by you...

@rcolvile @Fat_Jacques And yet you pretend it's designed by Ed Miliband.

@Fat_Jacques Yes, and it was going to raise prices then too.

@Oh_Come_On_Pls @CleanPowerDave @afneil Yes she is talking about the global market for LNG rather than the regional market for piped gas. Exactly what part of that do you think she has got wrong?

@benbrownuk @CleanPowerDave @afneil Your point would make sense if she accidentally used the global instead of the European but that's not the case, it's deliberate. Try again x.com/i/status/20370…

@MissLauraFong @tomhfh Young couples are the most pro YIMBY people out there. Imagine the incredible boon to their lives by paying half the price for their house because we had a sensible amount of supply. It's older people who paid far less who tend to selfishly want to keep house prices high.

@benbrownuk @tomhfh Explain to a young couple who got a mortgage recently via a lot of hard struggle that their quality of life with suffer because Trevor couldn't be arsed to make the same sacrifices as them. At least you have the decency to admit overcrowding is inevitable

@MissLauraFong @tomhfh Yes. Trevor and the hundreds of thousands like him. It matters much more that Trevor can afford to buy his own home and start his own family than it does a few selfish Nimby's have to put up with slightly more parked cars on the road or slightly more crowded trains.

@benbrownuk @tomhfh So what you mean is fcuk everyone else's quality of life, let's irreparably change our towns and cities because Trevor doesn't want to live in his parents basement. What matters isn't people who've sacrificed and struggled to buy a home but Trevor.

@BarcoCTO @AndyatAuto Yes exactly. It wont really be for the same use case as batteries. Batteries will be for daily fluctuations. eFuels will be for significant lulls.

@benbrownuk @AndyatAuto I assume eFuel will be produced with excess renewable power? Is it already competitive with batteries ?

For the sake of balance and because my timeline is always full of people proclaiming that renewables are flawed - today at noon, electricity in U.K. was generated •🌬️ Wind: 55% •☀️ Solar: 20% •🌿 Other renewables (biomass + hydro): ~3–5% •☢️ Nuclear: ~12–13% •🔥 Gas: ~6% •🌍 Imports: ~5–7% 91–92% low-carbon (renewable + nuclear). The grid didn’t fall over and won’t because that is a myth. This statistic is also, honestly meaningless. The big picture (latest full-year data) •Renewables: ~42–50% •Fossil fuels (mostly gas): ~30–36% •Nuclear: ~15–16% •Other/imports: small remainder Or simplified: ~2/3 low-carbon vs ~1/3 fossil fuels Clearly as we look to the future; and at the risk of being controversial! 1) The more sources of energy the better - wind, solar, nuclear and gas. Being at the mercy of one commodity is “rule 101 stupid”. 2) We need to break the business model where electricity prices are set by the most expensive commodity ie usually gas 3) We need to encourage the robustness of the grid in energy storage of all kinds and the robustness of the same (sometimes called inertia) 4) Decentralisation and democratisation of energy generation is enabled by technology such as solar and battery and will ultimate challenge monopolistic practices For those of us that believe in a free market, we must embrace a multitude of competing technologies; for competition will result in keener pricing For those of us who care about the planet, the use of a greater proportion coming from renewables must be welcome. So ultimately I struggle with the idea that anyone would object to a more diverse mix of energy supply or the idea that we would block the emergence of any new technology; ultimately the market will decide and I’m pretty sure the market will demand the best solutions……. emphasis on plurality!

@MHutton93 @LBC Yes of course they are but it's worse for us because they have a joint European bank which has much lower borrowing rates than we do on our own. Aligning ourselves with Trump will make no difference to our borrowing rate. Unless you want to become the 51st state.

@benbrownuk @LBC Oh so europe isnt going through this aswell? Maybe if we align ourselves more with trump (as we should) he would be more inclined to help

@MHutton93 @LBC Brexit. We are on our own, they are together. Keeps their borrowing costs much more under control.

@LBC why though? Oil and gas prices are the same as a month ago, iran has nothing to do with it but its a nice thing to blame

@MissLauraFong @tomhfh Living in you parents basement into your 30s is not quality of life. What you mean is quality of life for you above everything else.

@benbrownuk @tomhfh We haven't established anything. It might have a low population density compared to cities you've picked but not to cities I pick. But that's irrelevant. Try getting on a train in rush hour. It's too crowded. Quality of life above everything else!

@rudy_betrayed @thegoldensandal @AndyMasley This wasn't an argument between small farmers and large agribusinesses. It was between farmers and a datacentre. Clearly the farmers are more likely to be causing river pollution than the datacentre is.

@benbrownuk @thegoldensandal @AndyMasley My God man. Farming causes river pollution BECAUSE international agribusinesses spray glyphosate everywhere and kill us That is what we’re complaining about Small town farmers like the people in the video most likely use rotational grazing and regenerative farming practices

Fine if people want to use their private property rights to reject extremely generous deals, but the way this is framed implies data centers are shifty for offering farmers crazy amounts of money. Older farmer goes on a crazy confused rant about food disappearing and they just air it without comment or clarification. Farmers should be understood as one industry among many and not treated like they're magical sages who can see things the rest of us can't.

@EyesOnThePriz12 Qhy are you people incapable of looking stuff up. It's not hard these days.

Tell us about "the low price Spain pays for electricity", in detail, 🤡 . #WarOnMorons

@JonT29910143 @DeepHouseBear @AndyatAuto @chinch69 *can be

@JonT29910143 @DeepHouseBear @AndyatAuto @chinch69 It's cheap now in Spain. Clearly it cant be very effective even without a huge amount of storage (which renewable advocates have been saying for years).

@MissLauraFong @tomhfh Lots of people in London don't have cars. As we've established London has low population density. This isn't a difficult problem to solve.

@benbrownuk @tomhfh So you add two floors to a building. Where are those people going to park in an already full street? You increase the population of a city, what magical roads and new train lines will those people use? Immigrants are having kids, they can clearly afford it.

@JonT29910143 @DeepHouseBear @AndyatAuto @chinch69 So you agree renewables should be committed too almost everywhere and will provide cheap secure power? And it's just northern latitudes that we need to still be using FFs?

@benbrownuk @DeepHouseBear @AndyatAuto @chinch69 They have nice weather in Spain. That's why millions of Brits holiday there, every year.

@BarcoCTO @AndyatAuto We are coming up with a sensible mix. It will be approximately 70% wind and solar, 20% nuclear and biofuel. 10% will remain as natural gas for now, an eFuel in the future. Interconnectors and a Europe wide grid will provide backup. The majority of this will be done by 2030.

@benbrownuk @AndyatAuto Of course it's all good news. But we didn't solve 'world hunger' a.k.a. energy supply with renewables. After 20-30 years of cheerleading it's time to regroup and come up with a sensible mix, which will be different from locatioj to location. Stop the cheerleading!

@BarcoCTO @AndyatAuto Did you not see the 50% renewable over the past year bit?

@AndyatAuto Sounds like: "world hunger is solved because this morning, right after breakfast, I was not hungry"