John Dowe

Nature, animal lover, free thinker. Tech addict, old and new. Enjoy repairing stuff, long hikes in big forests/ photography/ ski, company of cats, some humans..

[John Dowe @FishPi314]

Beautiful autumnal #Sunrise this morning!

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

If the financial cost of Net Zero doesn't alarm you, the physical reality should.

A wind turbine commissioned in 2025 is essentially e-waste by 2045. We're currently using high-density fossil fuels to build low-density wind solar replacements that cannot reproduce themselves.

Now meet turbine decay: 300,000 turbines - most with non-recyclable blades - will hit landfills by 2040.

Solar decay: Billions of panels with a 20-24-year lifespan all need to be replaced - possibly twice over by 2050.

Grid crisis: National electricity grids were never designed for intermittent power. It's not just being updated, it's being forced into an unsustainable configuration. We're replacing a self-sustaining energy system with a high-maintenance 'disposable' one.

Welcome to a dark future of perpetual rebuilding.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

NET ZETO - The Bank of England has admitted that the Carbon permit costs paid by power plants are just passed on to bill payers. And er …. Adding to inflation 🤡

Stating the bloody obvious! It would be moronic to think business would not pass on these ‘fines’

it’s pathetic.

[charles watson @watsonchas]

Seven large blocks of flats in NW London discharging raw sewage directly into vulnerable Thames tributaries 🤮
This takes us back to pre-Victorian times with our rivers literally being treated like open sewers
⁦@thameswater⁩ is a failed business 😡 https://t.co/TnK0hSLn9c

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The COP29 climate summit begins in Baku, Azerbaijan. A two week jamboree of various private jet flying VIPs indulging in virtue hypocrisy.

#COP29

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Spaffing away £22 billion on carbon capture machines and destroying thousands of acres of prime farmland with mass-scale solar panels is not in the best interests of our national security. You are destroying our economic and food security on the altar of net zero.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The UK government is spaffing £22bn of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines. Yet, carbon capture technology requires “almost as much energy as that contained in the fossil fuels that produced the CO2 in the first place. An exercise in futility.”

£22bn white elephant.

[Alan @A1an_M]

A squirrel, unpaid by taxpayers, burying a free acorn which will next spring turn into a free carbon capture scheme lasting 600 years or more. @Ed_Miliband

[Tony 🚜🇬🇧 Our tolerance is destroying us. @Tony40335450]

14 million trees have been cut down in Scotland to make way for wind farms.

Yet now the government is blowing £22 Billion on carbon capture. What were the 14 million trees doing then? Sheer net zero lunacy.

https://t.co/0DaB7fiovO

[Latimer Alder @latimeralder]

#CarbonCapture

The UK CC plan will (if it works at all) remove 8.5 million tonnes of CO2 per year

That's 1/40th of UK's CO2

So will influence climate by 1/40th of our 1/5,000th of a degree per year

1/200,000th of a degree per year

For £22,000,000,000

A good deal for Brits?

[Dr Jennine Morgan @jemmm85517813]

Our LUNATIC government have announced today they will spend £22 billion on Carbon capture & storage .

This is such a load of utter nonsense on top of other utter nonsense. Miliband & crew need a straitjacket & to be kept in them until this lunacy dies.

[Joe Rukin @joerukin]

The devastation of #HS2 is so great is because of this ridiculous design speed. It has to go straight, it can't bend round sensitive sites so this maximises the damage to the natural world and it has to be far wider than a traditional railway. And cost goes up. #Panorama

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Labour net zero strategy:
1. Close down North Sea oil
2. Wreck steel industry.
3. Port Talbot loses X,000 workers, kills town. Makes “green steel” useless for construction/armaments.
4. Imports high grade steel from China/India to pretend we don’t make any CO2.
5. Destroys car industry with crazy 2030 EV target, 1 million jobs.
6. Turn UK into Theme park manufacturing bugger all.
7. Ed Milband declares UK is world net zero leader.
8. World laughs.
9. Electricity shortage. Blackouts. Record unemployment and deaths from cold.
10. Anti-Net Zero riots spread.
11. Ends

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

“We are going to have to be unpopular.”

~ Keir Starmer

Removing the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners isn’t just unpopular, it’s cruel. And meanwhile, taxpayers continue to pay for MPs’ energy costs in their second homes.

#bbclaurak

[John Dowe @FishPi314]

#countryfile #dragonflies Amazing creatures! 🥰🥰

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

This is massively disingenuous boasting by Ed Miliband. He is claiming credit when it wasn’t entirely due, because this year’s renewables auction was designed well before the general election.

The last government was prepared to pay up to £73 a megawatt hour (bizarrely stated in 2012 prices, which equate to £84/MWh in today’s prices) for offshore wind, a huge leap from the £44 level that produced no takers in 2023.

And…most of the government payments (taxpayer funded money) for the renewable contact
auction have been given to international renewables markets.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

“Ed Miliband adds £150 to household bills with wind turbine building spree. Profits from record-breaking green expansion will go to foreign energy firms.”

UK net zero is a burden on taxpayers, a wealth transfer to overseas corporations and a land grab.

https://t.co/FKOLsvbBBZ

[John Dowe @FishPi314]

@13Atomic She told him she heard it ringing in the dining room, of course he checked phone no missed calls!

[4Viewers @4Viewers]

In tonight’s episode, the team rush to the aid of a badger trapped under a fence, a nest of orphaned chicks are discovered abandoned in a wall-mounted ashtray on an industrial site, and a fox cub has his head stuck in a rusty wheel - #WildlifeRescue, at 8pm on @Channel4

[John Dowe @FishPi314]

Interesting variety of #foxglove growing in the garden! 😀😀 #foxes #vixen #gardenersworld #springwatch #countryfile

[Teena Massam 🌷🌲 🌳🐦‍⬛🐾🥀 @teenamassam]

Stop the new bee killing pesticides!! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/u8foVOJNCW via @UKChange #Countryfile @RishiSunak