Ahh the whole thing is as mad as a box of frogs. I've had one of those nights, absorbing as much BBC News, RT, Al Jazeera - before properly melting my head with youtube, prob the biggest media outlet, about Paris being a false flag attack
For me anyway and I guess pretty much everyone outside the echelons of power. It's simply impossible to know whats really happening. Who's getting guns, why? Was there not just a war against our 'new' fundamentalist 'allies'. Planes are smacking out like 16 yr olds at a rave.
A seismic population shift is continues and still no EU policy, some meet open arms, others razor wire. Notice as well how few Ukraine refuges make the news. Yet this
'Women' Judge!! Can unleash so much prime time hate like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wsv6BM4AY8&ab_channel=iizthatiiz
George Osborne sold Hinkley Point with an unbelieveable 35 year power purchase agreement approximately 120% above the current wholesale price of leccy. The subsidy alone is worth approx £17 billion. Renewables energy, a potential UK field of excellence - Graphene ffs was discovered in Manchester, the archetypical nano semiconductor. But no remotely benefited from such a subsidy - the subsidy alone is worth a minimum £17 billion. Hinckley's expected to run for 60yrs. It's futile to try and predict the wholesale cost of electric in 35 years. However for the duration of the 35yr subsidy Hinkley wholesale exports will be £39.5 billion. State sponsored. The remaining 25 year lifespan could easily see it double that figure. No amount of industry lobbying, EU inquiry's, or even a case study from HSBC which concluded;
'"We see ample reason for the UK Government to delay or cancel the project," HSBC concluded in a note that set out eight concerns with the project.
HSBC's criticism echoes those of environmental groups who have repeatedly warned the government agreement to provide EDF with a guaranteed price of over £90/MWh for the clean power it generates over a 35 year period is excessively generous.'
To many focus groups, auditor's, commissions reports to dismiss this as fag packet economics. It's a multi billion pound stroke. I mean you could probably skim a few hundred grand of a solar farm - but EDF's build tendered at £16-18 Billion and completion up and atom by 2018. Now for some reason that eludes every search EDF have bumped up the reactor to £24.5 Billion and do well to get any juice out of her by 2025 - but the contract stipulates 2033. But we need the power now - with approximately 45% of the of UK power plant production scheduled for decommission within 15 years. If these 50 year old coal burners remain online, emitting current carbon levels. The only option is buying huge amounts of carbon 'offsets' that will rise in price as other countries reap. There is really no doubt that the UK will fail, after such a bright start, to reach the Kyoto agreement of 20% reduction by 2020. Still must feel like a pretty big fella brokering a £24.5 Billion deal, even if it undermines national security for 2 generations.
It hasn't gone down well with the in-laws either. Speaking during the second reading of the Energy Bill, Osbourne's Father in law Lord Howell told peers: A Conservative former energy secretary has insisted the “elephantine” Hinkley C nuclear project in Somerset is “one of the worst deals ever” for British consumers and industry.
Lord Howell of Guildford told peers he would “shed no tears” if the multi-billion pound development by French giant EDF Energy was abandoned in favour of smaller nuclear plants at a later date.
He warned no reactor of the kind planned for Hinkley C has “ever been completed successfully”.
The nuclear push has many critics over its cost, the time it takes to build plants and the potential threat to the UK’s national security of having China in control of a plant on UK soil. Osborne’s father-in-law, former energy minister Lord Howell, has described the project as “one of the worst deals ever” for British consumers and industry. Speaking during the second reading of the Energy Bill, Lord Howell told peers: “Far the biggest obligation or future burden on consumers and households is the Hinkley Point C nuclear project.
Renewable subsidies are slashed. Proven turnkey technology, that could be manufactured in the UK and installed by the GIGAWATT in under 12 months, creating more jobs. Embracing a micro-grid approach, that is vastly more efficient than sending DC current 100's of miles cross counties to the DSU (demand side user). Micro-grids decentralize electricity production with coordinated storage. It's not feasible to 100% renewable in the medium future. But that isn't stopping global ambition - California's beyond 33% movement looks on target, with utility scale storage and voltage optimisation.
Inevitable higher bills are balls. That this massive investment has chopped a booming renewable sector of at the knees - not just by removing feed in tariffs for wind turbines, taking £700m out of the renewable heat incentive, slashing feed in tariffs for 50+ proposed utility scale ground mount installs. Osbourne refusing to release an agreed £100m for energy retro-fits (loft insulation, cavity wall, draft proofing) earmarked for the most vulnerable who tend to live in the coldest houses. On top of all that, he's scrapped tax-relief for businesses. Still get tax relief on a new tractor, and this continues over the years in depreciation. But renewable infra-structure no longer qualifies as capital expenditure. That was so often the decider - how much capital expenditure relief the business had come new financial year.
Energy minister Andrea Leadsom said: “It is vital that industries over time stand on their own two feet. I don’t think anyone here would advocate an industry that only survives because of a subsidy paid by the billpayer.” She was justifying 87% cuts to subsidies for solar power, just as they are on the verge of becoming cheaper than gas.
The contradiction does not need spelling out. Nuclear power has had 60 years to stand on its own two feet. The admission it still needs subsidy (£17 billion worth after five years of ministers denying precisely that) shows that traditional nuclear power can barely crawl.
I am immensely loving driving at the moment. I want a motorbike so badly, I don't give a shit, I need one so I can feel the engine revving mmmm. 
(I'm.not even that old)
