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Old 15-08-2022, 13:25   #926
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Re: The energy crisis

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Originally Posted by nomadking View Post
Doesn't matter what any longer period figures say, it still represents the generating capacity you need at this point in time. At this point in time, you need 49% gas generated. In winter you are going to have less solar. The claim was that we should've invested in other than gas. Today's figures show it couldn't be done, as Germany itself found out.
Where would today's missing 22%(compared to Q1 figures) have come from instead?
Fracking gas in the UK, would increased supply, thereby reducing market prices.
Fracking gas in the UK would provide a miniscule amount of gas such that global prices would not be impacted.

Q1 is in the winter so another quarter would have more solar. You can't look on a daily basis for energy generation.

Today's figures don't show that a shift to more renewables, storage and nuclear cannot be done.

We need to get on with it for the sake of future generations let alone ourselves.
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