newshound snipped-for-privacy@stevejqr.plus.com> wrote
>> >>>>formatting link>>>>
>>>> A pretty good summary of what many of us here seem to think. But
>>>> this is spreading the word to Daily Mail readership.
>>>
>>> It's a hopelessly muddle piece, full of half truths and
>>> innaccuracies. Take a closer look:
>>>
>>> The UK could on its own reduce world emmissions by 1% by going net
>>> zero - I am impressed if this is true (which I doubt) but somehow
>>> trying to persuade other countries to also commit is a waste of time?
>>> duh! Muddle headed!
>>>
>>> "the only way to make renewables reliable is to back them up,
>>> expensively, with some other power source" - this is just wrong.
>>> Wrong because Ridley doesn't know about other ways to store energy
>>> (esp making hydrogen)
>
>> What? You have to make, and store the hydrogen, and then run it
>> through fuel cells or burn it in a CCGT. What is this if not a back-up? >
> A stupid way to do things instead of using nukes.
>
>> and doesn't understand what can be done with other techniques
>>> of insulation, thermal mass, off peak charging etc.
>
>> Insulation and thermal mass help with domestic heating. They literally
>> do not keep the lights on, or maintain any other near-essentials. >
> But they do massively reduce the load on the network.
Massive? IIRC domestic heating is about 15% of UK energy use.