@CeliaRichards0n It's one of the best. It has stiff competition with Exeter-Plymouth and Edinburgh-Aberdeen. But the West Highland line knocks them all for six.
@thomasforth I wonder how much of it is historical baggage. Pre-industrial revolution the North had a proportionally much lower population than the South so was regarded as a peripheral backwater, an attitude which stuck.
@michael_wheller@afneil Yes, ff from other countries, which we will be more and more reliant on. Thankfully we've already developed the alternatives and we've got huge offshore wind potential which we'd be fools to ignore. But you're right, the full switch will take 20 odd years.
@marcusleech123@julianHjessop Nobody knows. Literally nobody. No engineers, no academics, no energy company. No one has ever ever thought about it. Literally never crossed their minds. In fact you're the first person ever to raise this as an issue. You should take over as CEO of the national grid right now.
@marcusleech123@julianHjessop Fair enough. I should have said maximum output.
You're the one claiming that backup makes power prohibitively expensive so I assume you know what it will be. What is it?
@marcusleech123@julianHjessop I know exactly how much wind capacity we have. And I know the difference between that and record output. I don't know where you get your figures from. https://t.co/RMTFaBNHh8
You massively overestimate the impact of the cost of backup.
@marcusleech123@julianHjessop I said record output not the nameplate capacity. And wind has averaged over 17GW in the last 24 hours. It's not dropped much compared to the record.
But that aside, what's your point? Wind power output varies. So what? Everyone knows this.
@Cedders68@SiOldridge Quantified against similar countries. Of all the large developed economies we've cut our emissions the most and our future targets are more ambitious than other similar countries.
The proposed climate and nature bill would have killed the large scale low carbon energy projects we need to get to net zero. Labour are right not to support it.
This proposed climate and nature bill looks like it would make the building of all significant low-carbon energy pretty much impossible.
That seems bad for the climate.
@MrMark_James@julianHjessop No, there's not significant gas left, which is why we need to import so much. Fracking was never a serious prospect in the UK. The geology isn't right for it. SMRs are still under development, there's no guarantee they will be economic.
@Cedders68@SiOldridge We are doing that. CBAM is already planned. And we are already doing a heck of a lot to reduce emissions. I don't see how the bill helps.