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Originally Posted by churchfcrules
fossil fuel is dead!
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So how do you get to your favourite walks? Ah, you must walk it or cycle it!
No? So fossil fuel is a long way off dead for you.
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Originally Posted by MargaretR
Wireless electricity - would have been free, but Nikola Teslas's sponsor withdrew financial support for the invention because "where would we put the meter?".
Free electricity is not compatible with our present capitalist system (based on oil/gas)]
MargaretR, you're doing it again- you're posting about a man popularly known in his time as 'The Mad Scientist'.
Wireless electricity is about transmission, not generation. You still have to make it before you can transmit it.
And nothing is free in any system.
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Originally Posted by susie123
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Come on susie- you're a scientist. You know full well cheap and freely available hydrogen power is decades off. We can use it to produce power but we can't
make it without using far more power than we get back. And how do we make it- break down water using- guess what!
Methane- it's only 12% hydrogen, needs expensive processing and what do you do with the 88% global warming gas you're left with.
Green campaigners are deluding themselves and condemning the rest of us. They're condemning us to less energy, more expensive energy, the loss of all power hungry industry in the UK and a massive drop in our living standards.
China is opening 2 new coal fired power stations
every week and they all burn the poorest, lowest grade, most polluting coal(bituminous) available.
India plans another 450+ as soon as possible.
We only have 17 large coal fired stations and we are closing them. China will have replaced them in 2 months.
Do you think our pitiful 20% efficient wind turbines are going to make a jot of difference to that sort of CO2 output?