so....AWIMB are a bunch of f**ktard ludites
Ok cretins, everything is going electric, faster than you can jack off to a 'your mum' joke
cars are going to be driver less before you lot die.
Green tech does and will work if provided with the same happy tax breaks and investment that oil has enjoyed
Fusion power is within reach.
solar and geothermal are free money once the initial capex has been allotted.
Oil can be as cheap as you like but the reality is that none of the real costs are paid by the oil companies.
military costs of subjugating the sources of oil
military costs of securing the transport routes of the oil/gas
human and fiscal costs of dealing with the flow of migrant flow that are a direct result of said military intervention
human and fiscal costs of dealing with the mass migration of people due to climate change affected areas.
ecological costs of being the forcing behind mass extinction event.
oil and gas will run out, guaranteed.
The planet will be well f**ked if we burn all that's left, but don't let that stop you.
Re: so....AWIMB are a bunch of f**ktard ludites
Have you noticed that your pronouncements about alternative energy contain significant caveats?
There's a reason for that.
What a load of old cobblers.
tax breaks? even playing field?
whats the drama
nobody likes anybody getting free stuff?
its going to happen, why not get in on the ground floor.
You've just realised this? They were discussing going to war with 1.6 billion people earlier
You sound like some type of filthy hippie.
Wood fires beat coal fires hands down though
And petrol fires are a bit scary
They make a nice noise. Also makes your bollocks feel twice as big going out and chopping wood.
To pretend that alternative energy sources aren't already massively subsidised is wildly
disingenuous, though, isn't it? And the capex you blithely mention for solar ignores the fact that PV technology is hugely expensive in terms of outlay and that the payback simply isn't big enough or fast enough to make it an attractive, large-scale option - certainly in this country. Geothermal tech on any large scale would mean essentially digging up most of the country at enormous financial and environmental expense, while wind farms are hugely unreliable (the gearbox bearings being a massive issue for geared ones and the high cost and shortage of rare earth metals being a problem for those using permanent magnet technology). Equally, their maintenance is incredibly difficult and expensive - especially offshore. And then there is the simply enormous and incredibly costly infrastructural issue of actually getting the energy these sources generate into the f**king grid.
And as for everything 'going electric', well a/ no it isn't and b/ where do you think the electricity is coming from?
And, as an engineering and technology journalist, I know a fair bit about driverless vehicle technology. It is certainly coming, but has no relevance in terms of environmental impact.
Oooh, no. Love the smell of a coal fire. Plus coal throws out much more heat.
Peat is the best, obviously. Then wood, then coal.
Petrol is only really useful for getting warm quickly, then immolating yourself, your family and then your house.
Indeed, though I've had to stop since my neighbours called the polis
not as much as a wood burning stove
I'll never forget the time Sir C set himself on fire with petrol.
He looked briefly like a giant Ready Brek kid and then reeked of burning hair for the rest of the evening. :clap:
I know you guys are fond of cooking and have tremendous respect for the armed forces
For a man who's forever castigating the government for taking money off the disabled, you don't mind
taking the piss out of them, do you? :hehe:
I'm an equal opportunities piss taker. You wont catch me discriminating
Surely fires are hot, no?
He was lucky that his Just for Men acted like a fire blanket
He's glad he upgraded to Just for FireMen
so if you know all that as a journalist
how are you not excited by the burgeoning potential of green energies.
We have to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels, (ahem) *FACT
Geothermal can be built into the many redundant holes in the ground left by mining.
Cars are redundant for 95% of the time so its not just driverless that're coming but also new forms of car usage. shared journeys, bookable journeys, Uber style.
it'll take time, the reaction by the capitalists here who are buried neck deep in the sand with eyes only for dosh tells that story but it is coming.
bet half of them wished they had go tin on the ground floor of Google, Apple and Microsoft but couldnt see the future.
Well second chance boys.
Also how politically brilliant will it be to secure power independence from the Allans and Ivans
