Lithium batteries, not worth it

Pitifull isn't it?

Actually they like it. As you would like more oxygen.

In the UK, alcohol tax is 900%.

The one thing the laws of chemistry have to say, is that nothing exists or can exist that will do a better job than lithium.

Which means the whole battery powered world is a bust. It cant be done. Parts, yes, All? No.

The problem with that statement is that it is only true at low current draws.

In fact a gas combined cycle power station *exceeds* 60%. Provided it doesn't have to shut down for wind.

The alcohols ain't bad. But you get more energy density out of straight hydrocarbons. In the Diesel/ kerosene range its the ideal fuel for most things.

And you know this because? That period also coincides with the end of the little ice age, and we know that mildly warming oceans outgass lots of CO2 until the organic life catches up with it

Sorry. Its hard to spot who wrote what

LiFePo has been around years. Its less energy dense (heavier) but tends to be able to handle more abuse. And I think mostly doesn't catch fire.

Ultimately in the model world, it was tried, but straight LIPO just got better and didn't blow up so much and offered better performance.

LIP is within 50% of its peak theoretical performance now and is very mature tech,

How much energy would it take to extract it? You would need tha 4x10^9 tonnes of uranium first, to get it out ...

That would also be my answer.

Google 'catalytic cracking'.

But still, is used...

There is a massive difference in running a few centralised facilities with a small maintenance crews and having to employ an army of staff and vehicles to service perhaps 100,000+ wind turbines in far flung outbacks of the UK maybe as often as once a month. Add the extra hassle of offshore installations and the fleet of ships needed and the cost rise higher.

Except I've not once seen one being maintained. I think you're making the regularity of maintainance up.

The stats I've seen, which I believe, is wind farms come to 4p/kWh. The average of everything we're using is 39p/kWh. Guess which I prefer.

I saw the wind up to 51% of UK demand the other day, we're getting there.

Then the greenies with electric cars will really be green. At the moment they actually think electric cars don't use fossil fuels!!

I saw a website written in 2014 which said we were running out of uranium (by 2042). Mind you it also said we'd already run out of Antimony (in 2020) and we'll run out of lead in 2025. Where do they get this s*it from?

Get a better newsreader, mine shows colour coding:

The last part is key. Organic life uses what's there. Things auto-level. Climate change won't kill us. Wasting money on stopping it will.

The alarmists do not make a lot of sense. That is why they refuse to debate.

I love your dry, British sense of humor.