Interesting offshore windfarm video clip

[MDW1954]

Of late, we have had some comments on this board re: windfarms being subsidised, and being a somewhat debatable investment proposition.

This short BBC clip makes some interesting counter-arguments.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-57519392

MDW1954 (a happy holder of several such investments)

[idpickering]

Although I backed away from buying The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) yesterday, I’m still very interested in investing in them I think. We’ll see?

Ian.

[funduffer]

I have invested in SSE and Greencoat UK Wind (UKW).

The former develop new wind farms, such as the one described in the North Sea.

The latter operate existing ones - a mixture of on-shore and off-shore.

I think owning both is useful diversification.

[idpickering]

I have invested in SSE and Greencoat UK Wind (UKW).

The former develop new wind farms, such as the one described in the North Sea.

The latter operate existing ones - a mixture of on-shore and off-shore.

I think owning both is useful diversification.

Snap! I hold both too. I agree doing so does offer a bit of diversification imho.

Ian.

[idpickering]

Thanks for the above Snorvey.

Although I mentioned further up this thread that I'd backed away from buying The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG), I have since bought into the company, as has my 11 year old granddaughter! Her own decision of course,

Ian.

[GrahamPlatt]

Small Modular Nuclear Reactors take a step forward:

Government progresses demonstration of next generation nuclear reactor

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/gove ... ar-reactor

There is one indisputable fact here: Through the Rolls-Royce SMR the UK has a secure independent source of nuclear power with no need of any input from China.

https://www.businessweekly.co.uk/news/e ... -blueprint

“AMRs are typically smaller than conventional nuclear power stations, more flexible, and could be built at a fraction of a cost. It is hoped that as well as safely creating electricity to power homes on the grid, HTGRs will also be able to generate low-carbon hydrogen. In addition, thanks to also generating extremely high temperature heat, they could help decarbonise industry and potentially power district heating networks by the 2040s.

Around a third (37%) of the UK’s carbon emissions come from heat, with a significant portion from heavy industrial processes. By generating heat at between 500 and 950°C - higher than other types of AMR - HTGRs could significantly cut emissions from processes such as cement, paper, glass and chemical production in the UK’s industrial heartlands.”

This just makes me wonder whether heating of the earth via the “greenhouse effect” isn’t simply being replaced here by direct heating via nuclear fission! What are the numbers like? Does anyone know?

[Gengulphus]

This just makes me wonder whether heating of the earth via the “greenhouse effect” isn’t simply being replaced here by direct heating via nuclear fission! What are the numbers like? Does anyone know?

This is well off the windfarm video clip topic of this thread and even further off the running-a-HYP-in-practice topic of this board, so I've posted my stab at an answer on the Science board, in viewtopic.php?f=83&t=30558. Replies over there, please, not here!

Gengulphus