@DiannaAgro38083 National debt is the most important, the people of the UK cannot afford to install solar and heat pumps because they are taxed to the hilt just so the idiots running the country can give it away to other countries which fill the banks of their corrupt leaders.
@fionaskene@DiannaAgro38083 National debt is the most important, the people of the UK cannot afford to install solar and heat pumps because they are taxed to the hilt just so the idiots running the country can give it away to other countries which fill the banks of their corrupt leaders.
@Keir_Starmer@EmmanuelMacron Yes I'm sure you are as together you have both fucked two of Europe's greatest countries.
Well done you cretinous little shit!
@kazrg9z@Keir_Starmer Starmer was an absolute disaster on the world stage, he embarrassed himself and the UK in front of world leaders over and over again.
@ShabanaMahmood He won with a manifesto of lies, not one thing he said he would do did he actually do.
He is a liar and a fraud, the manifesto should be legally binding so fraud like this can't be done again in the future.
Role on the next general election when labour is wiped out.
@AngelaRayner You forgot to mention the creation of the most expensive electricity in the world and adding all the oil & gas workers onto the benefits bill.
Bankruptcy is only a matter of time with labour government
@DaleVince What a crock of shit the only people net zero benefits are those who are creaming billions from the countries taxpayers.
Great Britain was built on cheap energy, oil and gas and we need to return to this.
Stick your renewables up your arse!
@JosieJoM@CarlBovisNature Magpies destroyed a nest in my garden with in days of the eggs being laid. They are destroying everything around here, they sit on top of my bird box listening to the blue tits chicks just waiting for them to come out so they can eat them.
Conventional thinking treats wind and solar as permanent infrastructure. They aren't.
These are a form of short life-cycle, industrial gadgetry with roughly 15-to-25-year lifespans. They are all in various stages of permanent decay and replacement - hydrocarbon and nuclear plants last generations. We see this in the mounting graveyards of unsalvageable wreckage. Yes, much of it can be recycled in theory. But in reality, the economic and energy costs usually outweigh the benefits.
They are now decomposing faster than we can replace them and this is the Treadmill Effect. If a nation installs 5 GW of wind power every year, by Year 20, they aren't expanding the grid anymore. They are being forced to build 5 GW just to replace the rusted, fatigued and degraded turbines built in Year 1. Growth flatlines, swallowed up in pure maintenance.
Look at the scale of this dilemma: despite millions of massive turbines and solar arrays deployed over 40 years, hydrocarbon fuels still dominate at roughly 81% of global primary energy. Solar and wind deliver only a tiny fraction of total primary energy. We've reached the limit.
Almost every turbine and panel built over the last two decades is now in the late stages of decomposition. We're struggling just to keep up; and soon we will fall behind. The mines will become hollowed-out and these 'green' rust collectors will fall apart where they stand.
To feed this replacement treadmill will need an astronomical volume of minerals: like copper, nickel, cobalt and rare earths. But we have already devoured the high-grade ores. A century ago, copper ore was 5% metal. Today, major mines are crushing ore that is less than 0.5% copper.
To get the same tonne of metal, you must blast, haul and crush ten times more rock. This requires more massive, diesel-guzzling mining fleets and heavy industrial smelting. We are cannibalising dense, reliable fossil energy just to chase low-density, short-lived weather collectors.
Here is the Einsteinian paradox. In physics, the closer an object gets to the speed of light, the more massive it becomes, requiring exponentially more energy to move it a fraction further. The energy transition is its own relativistic wall.
The closer a grid gets to 100% renewable penetration, the greater its structural costs will become. You don't just need more panels; you need a parallel universe of over-building, synchronous condensers, and continent-spanning transmission lines just to handle the asynchronous volatility.
We are hitting that Inversion Point. The fossil fuel energy required to mine the rare earths, manufacture the turbines and endlessly replace the dying infrastructure will eventually outpace the net energy the system delivers. You cannot reach the limit of light.
Albert Einstein - the ultimate observer of universal limits - would smile at the irony. Net Zero is being driven by an ideological bureaucracy that reads financial blueprints but ignores the periodic table and the laws of thermodynamics.
Entropy is universal. Nothing can bypass it.
Imagery of rust, mechanical exhaustion and the accumulation of unmanaged composite materials.
@mgshanks We all know you're talking shite.
North sea crude would create thousands of highly paid jobs, funny how all oil producing countries are rich and those who don't produce oil are poor.
You idiots are bankrupting the UK.
Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers.
When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it.
They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long.
In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it.
The flowers attract a standing army to our fields.
We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.