Ambrose Evans-Retard is so terrified of Peak Oil that he's making up the most ridiculous brainless pseudo-science shit that even ennui2 and Adam cannot spin.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/201 ... t-theresa/The £18bn Hinkley Point nuclear plant will be
overtaken by a host of cheaper technologies before it is even opened in the late 2020s...
[Hahahahaha...guess what they are technodreamers...its MEDIEVAL 19th CENTURY WIND MILLS, WHAT ELSE?]
Aerodynamic ‘smart blades’ guided by computers can capture changes in air flow, greatly raising efficiency. Capacity use has soared from 30pc a decade ago to 50pc in the latest ventures.
The new turbines are five times taller than their 20th Century ancestors, generating eight megawatts each. The US Sandia Laboratories are working on 50 MW monsters designed to halve costs again.
[OMG, I CANT STOP LAUGHING AT THESE RETARDS. The giant blades on those colossally stupid windmills are made from high-tech materials like carbon-fiber composites. Materials that are almost impossible to repair or recycle, and so all of those blades must be regularly replaced about every 20-25 years. Millions of them. At colossal cost.]
The US Energy Department is funding 541 projects in league with Harvard, MIT, and the world’s top universities, a push in some ways comparable to the war-time Manhattan Project.
[Hahahahaha...the Department of No Energy and the Ponzi Artists at Haaavaad...what a hopeless fucking duo of degenerates]
Some 75 of these projects are for cheap batteries and storage, what it describes as the ‘Holy Grail’ of the energy revolution. Nobody knows which will win the race: organic flow batteries, or those using zinc-air, among others, but Washington estimates that several could cut energy storage costs by 80pc to 90pc.
[Hahahahaha...80-90%..only ennui2 and Sockman believes bullshit like this]
Once electricity can be stored at viable cost, the ‘intermittency’ problems of wind and solar fade away. This alone could render Hinkley Point an anachronism by 2025.
Britain will always need reliable ‘base-load’ power to supplement renewables but big nuclear reactors are a poor way to do this. They cannot easily be switched on an off.
[Now the shithead admits those grid-scale Battery SCAMS are a waste of money]
[Like Pritchard-Retards pea brain]
Parliament’s Oxburgh inquiry reported to the Government this week that it would be cheaper to rely on clean gas, capturing the C02 from power plants and piping it for storage in disused North Sea oil wells. This would provide a ‘dispatchable’ source of clean electricity whenever needed.
[Now this MORON is beyond desperate. This reeks of Peak Oil Denier Brain Damage]
Even if Britain was to opt for nuclear power, a new generation of small molten salt reactors promise a cheaper, safer, and cleaner form of doing so.
[This CRETIN can't even make up his worthless mind. First he tells us nuclear NO GOOD, then he says "usher in the MSR fantasyland"...]
We are now stuck with this unhappy fait accompli. It is not a project that would ever have been approved in the new energy order of 2016.
[The 'New Energy Order of 2016'...HAHAHAHAHA...this dreamer headed for the uranium mines is out of his mind. Medieval Windmills...HIGH TECHNOLOGY , PEOPLE...INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL IS IMMINENT...hahahhaha. Ambrose will soon meet up with ennui2]
Outcast_Searcher is a fraud.
