Billions have already been spent on Rosebank and Jackdaw - I’m just hoping they see common sense and let these developments progress. It’ll take a lot more than a few windmills and EVs to reverse climate change.
Not to mention added damage to the already-fucked roads due to heavier cars, lithium mining etc. Our illustrious leader reckons everyone in the oil industry has skills which are easily transferable to offshore wind - the average active drilling rig keeps around 150 people in direct employment, more on production platforms. It’ll be interesting to see how many of these find work in the renewables sector.I'm not convinced EV's even do either. Creating those batteries is mega harmful to the environment.
Think it takes about 3 years to offset its own battery. Then replaced after 80/100'000 miles.
10s of thousands of EV cars laying unsold around europe.
Manufacturers starting to move back to combustion engines too.
No complaining mind you, chargers will keep me in a job
Wind farms too!
Tend to agree. Then there is the damage done to road surfaces, the greater danger posed to pedestrians, the (i imagine) rather toxic end of life disposal.I'm not convinced EV's even do either. Creating those batteries is mega harmful to the environment.
Think it takes about 3 years to offset its own battery. Then replaced after 80/100'000 miles.
10s of thousands of EV cars laying unsold around europe.
Manufacturers starting to move back to combustion engines too.
No complaining mind you, chargers will keep me in a job
Wind farms too!
I believe you can run an unmodified diesel car on vegetable oil which is a renewable and less polluting (though not zero polluting). Its not something I recommend and not without issues - but thats an unmodified car. Seems odd to me that if you can do this almost unintended/ by accident, then it shouldn't be beyond the wit of car companies to optimise for it relatively easily compared to brand new technologies.I think hydrogen still has a shot.
I think it was Mercedes I seen that had recently finished a working engine. One they were proud of too.
Might be another company, but a big hitter.
F1 is going fully sustainable biofuel, wonder how viable that is long term on the roads. Air travel no so much.
Instead of wiping out farms, we could be converting to fuel production.
If that can make F1 carbon neutral, it must be doable on the roads too?
I guess food would be a concern, imagine arguing that you can't feed people because we need fuel
I suspect im not alone in having no negative feelings towards those working on actual solutions, versus the fraudulent nonsense peddled by zealots and at policy level.
Total Energies ( and probably others) are already re-purposing oil refineries to produce sustainable aviation fuel from used cooking oil and have given out contracts for the supply of tens of thousands of tonnes of the stuff. Sadly, the other side of the coin is farmers are growing hundreds of acres of grass just to feed biogas plants and using hundreds of tonnes of diesel to do so. Nothing is “joined up” and our leaders are clueless.
I think that’s a fair summary of what I was trying to say.
The farm land surrounding my house was sold a few years back to a “farmer” who stood on my doorstep and told me how he was only going to “rent out the grass” to farmers. Since then, two houses have been built and a third plot is on the market with more to follow. The “farmer” still insists he only sold the first plot because he was offered “silly money” for it. Yet only last month he advertised another plot for £95k.Farmer across the road from me said it looks like there is plenty farmland when you drive around. But the council's are building houses on the quality farmland and so crop growing is getting harder and it is easier to have cattle..which the Scottish government tried to scale down by 25% until the kickback against it.
What is it the government want? And what foes Edinburgh council want? Give up on farmlands and just keep bringing students into the capital? Move everyone else out of Edinburgh into the country which is no longer country.
I remember my dad being put in a care home in Moredon area about 20 years ago and he would say...this was all countryside when I was young. Now if it was not for the bypass you would barely know you have crossed over to East Lotthian or Midlothian
Sorry I'm on completely different subject..shows how my mind works.
That is mind blowing. Sounds like a job for a squad of Kwik Fit fitters!I read/heard recently (from what source I cannie remember) that the changing climate isn’t due to pollution but is still caused by humans.
Bear with me here as it is straying into moonhowler territory.
About 50 years or so ago, during space exploration period, NASA were finding that they were having to adjust the telemetry of spacecraft frequently where the calculations should have remained constant. So they launched satellites in direct opposition to each other to monitor the earth’s rotation around its axis. What they found was that the planet has a ‘heavy spot’ - like on a tyre when you have to have it balanced with small weights after fitting. The cause was believed to be due to the location - China and India, and they say it’s because of the mega cities in China with extreme weight localised. Coupled with the dams in India harnessing huge amounts of water.
With both these phenomena being in close proximity to each other (on a planetary scale) the combined effects are causing the Earth to tilt from its position.
Now, I have no idea if that is all complete scientific bollocks or is a real factor and whether it is beyond rectification. But there you go. A wee something to mindfuck EGB
BMW.I think hydrogen still has a shot.
I think it was Mercedes I seen that had recently finished a working engine. One they were proud of too.
Might be another company, but a big hitter.
F1 is going fully sustainable biofuel, wonder how viable that is long term on the roads. Air travel no so much.
Instead of wiping out farms, we could be converting to fuel production.
If that can make F1 carbon neutral, it must be doable on the roads too?
I guess food would be a concern, imagine arguing that you can't feed people because we need fuel
Yeah, I read something about this a couple of months back, water displacement by humans make the planet a bit lopsided was the reason given in the article i was reading.I read/heard recently (from what source I cannie remember) that the changing climate isn’t due to pollution but is still caused by humans.
Bear with me here as it is straying into moonhowler territory.
About 50 years or so ago, during space exploration period, NASA were finding that they were having to adjust the telemetry of spacecraft frequently where the calculations should have remained constant. So they launched satellites in direct opposition to each other to monitor the earth’s rotation around its axis. What they found was that the planet has a ‘heavy spot’ - like on a tyre when you have to have it balanced with small weights after fitting. The cause was believed to be due to the location - China and India, and they say it’s because of the mega cities in China with extreme weight localised. Coupled with the dams in India harnessing huge amounts of water.
With both these phenomena being in close proximity to each other (on a planetary scale) the combined effects are causing the Earth to tilt from its position.
Now, I have no idea if that is all complete scientific bollocks or is a real factor and whether it is beyond rectification. But there you go. A wee something to mindfuck EGB
I read/heard recently (from what source I cannie remember) that the changing climate isn’t due to pollution but is still caused by humans.
Bear with me here as it is straying into moonhowler territory.
About 50 years or so ago, during space exploration period, NASA were finding that they were having to adjust the telemetry of spacecraft frequently where the calculations should have remained constant. So they launched satellites in direct opposition to each other to monitor the earth’s rotation around its axis. What they found was that the planet has a ‘heavy spot’ - like on a tyre when you have to have it balanced with small weights after fitting. The cause was believed to be due to the location - China and India, and they say it’s because of the mega cities in China with extreme weight localised. Coupled with the dams in India harnessing huge amounts of water.
With both these phenomena being in close proximity to each other (on a planetary scale) the combined effects are causing the Earth to tilt from its position.
Now, I have no idea if that is all complete scientific bollocks or is a real factor and whether it is beyond rectification. But there you go. A wee something to mindfuck EGB
Imagine finding a way to use the most abundant element or mine elements that are scarce. Let's tell them hydrogen is unworkable, rip them off and fuck the planet even more
I think they put the costs into general development. If it became the thing, over batteries for example, they'd become much cheaper.
Forty years ago we would drill a well in the North Sea - we’d see a supply vessel maybe twice a week. We’d have one, maybe two skips onboard for rubbish we couldn’t burn. Food waste was tipped overboard for the birds and fish , anything that would burn would be set alight and hung overboard on a Sunday. Drill cuttings, along with their coating of oil-based drilling fluids, were discharged overboard. Marine biologists said that the seabed actually thrived on it.
It's a tricky one. Both battery electric and hydrogen cars would have a big role in supporting renewable energy storage. For battery electric vehicles the electricity is stored in the battery while making hydrogen uses and stores electricity.
I live in moredun, where i grew up all my years with parents. I moved out a good few years ago not far up the road.
Good post. Some observations.
My wife is Chinese and I can categorically state, that in my experience, that is not the case unfortunately
Not uncommon unfortunately. We were evicted last year because the farmer wanted to upgrade his properties. We found another farm cottage a couple of miles away but twice the price. Our current landlord also has other cottages being used as holiday let's. Hard to blame them though because making money in farming is not easy and with the crazy inheritance tax, they have mo guarantee their families can afford to take the business on. Some are just cutting their losses. But the government are not exactly throwing incentives to farmers, rather they are happy for supermarkets to buy cheaper imports and tell farmers what they will pay them.
The saddest but most predictable thing was people believed that shit.
I believed it at the time, thinking, if there was still enough oil left to keep operating profitably, why would the mega oil companies not use their far reaching clout to diss this appararant misinformation? From articles I have read over the years it seems that the larger oil companies leased out the oil fields when the yield decreased and smaller comanies would then extract whatever remained.
The Valhall field in Norwegian waters produced over 1 billion boe in its first 40 years and the current aim is to produce another billion in the next 40. The field is also now powered by electricity from Norway. The Norwegians may have reinvented the wheel but they certainly know how to keep it turning.
In the 80's, i was told by a school teacher, North Sea Oil only had 20yrs left. The teacher wasn't Scottish, and would talk Scotland down at any opportunity.
