Re: Lochluichart eagles and ospreys


Keith Dancey wrote:
> In article 180050@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "MarkTheSpark" <thewideangle@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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> >Siting wind farms to get maximum benefit, they tend to need to be in
> >exposed, bleak places, and being exposed, bleak places, nobody lives
> >there. Because nobody much lives there, animals and birds DO like to
> >live there.
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> >There may be better places to build wind farms, but if every time
> >environmentalist NIMBYs moan about them, it's welcome to the new
> >nuclear age, or welcome to the climatic hell. Your call.
>
>
> Much of what you say is true, but we must add to it this: renewable energy
> sources alone cannot supply the nation's needs all the time.

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> In periods of anti-cyclone, which often typify both our coldest and hottest
> weather, there is little or no wind. These periods can last weeks, and can
> extend over the entire country. With no wind, we get much reduced wave power.
> And at night - and during daylight if the anti-cyclone is cloudy - we get no
> solar power.
>
> Just when the country needs maximum power output, we can loose all wind, wave
> and solar energy. That leaves just tidal races, geothermal and hydroelectric
> sources to supply the entire country...
>

'Just'? Are you crazy. The flood tide comes twice a day - billions of
tonnes of water in almost constant movement. Stand next to Menai bridge
one day and take a guess at the wasted megawatts. 400 feet down, the
earth's crust is close to boiling point in many areas, and will be for
the next million years. The sun shines every day in the Sahara. How
much more energy do you want?


> Or scores and scores of hollowed-out mountain tops containing pumped-water
> reservoirs as stored potential energy...
>
Eneergy can be stored very, very easily, without digging holes in
mountains. You can use it to electrolyse water into hydrogen (and lots
of handy oxygen) or engage it in any number of reversible physical or
chemical activities.

Better still, you can grow crops which fix carbon, then burn them to
release it again.

I don't want to be rude, but you really know bugger all about
renewable, sustainable energy. Are you in the oil industry?

> A mix of energy sources is essential, but if we are to avoid a mass extinction
> within the next 100-200 years or so, those sources will need to be low carbon
> or carbon free (and by that I include carbon sequestration).
>
> Also, the "solution" will need to be applied globally.
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>
> Few Cheers,
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> keith
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