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Technology / Nuclear generation produces green energy?
« on: 03/08/2024 11:17:47 »
Recently visited Dungeness and found that they have not generated power for over a year although the "B" station is totally intact after cooling down. .
We keep being hassled by the government to buy electric cars assuming the electricity to charge the batteries is produced in a green environmentally way. But it is not!!
Look at the gridwatch stats https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
If you compare it with another statistic site we find that they are different?
https://grid.iamkate.com/
This sunny windy morning 3 August shows that
FUEL GW %
Fossil fuels 5.1 19.2
Renewables 10.0 37.7
Nuclear/other 6.9 26.3
But this assumes that some of our imported power imported from France is nuclear .possibly 12 GW and UK just 4.7GW. as confirmed by gridwatch https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
We need to get our nuclear stations back up and running quickly to green our grid before spending tax monies on motorway charging stations and electrifying transport.
We keep being hassled by the government to buy electric cars assuming the electricity to charge the batteries is produced in a green environmentally way. But it is not!!
Look at the gridwatch stats https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
If you compare it with another statistic site we find that they are different?
https://grid.iamkate.com/
This sunny windy morning 3 August shows that
FUEL GW %
Fossil fuels 5.1 19.2
Renewables 10.0 37.7
Nuclear/other 6.9 26.3
But this assumes that some of our imported power imported from France is nuclear .possibly 12 GW and UK just 4.7GW. as confirmed by gridwatch https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
We need to get our nuclear stations back up and running quickly to green our grid before spending tax monies on motorway charging stations and electrifying transport.