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Old 6th November 2021, 08:32   #21
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Is there legislation to force those building new estates to fit solar panel's to all new homes? If not why not?

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No, there isn't. Makes the chance of houses being "affordable" less likely.
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Old 6th November 2021, 08:50   #22
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How they going to make the panels going forward as they are planning to ban all coal which is used in its manufacture? This and mining for numerous other finite rare earth minerals to make the panels
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Is there legislation to force those building new estates to fit solar panel's to all new homes? If not why not?

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Oh er! My comment " Solar is the way to go but it wont happen overnight" wasn't meant to be taken literally it was meant as a play on words.
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Old 6th November 2021, 11:57   #23
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Volvo issued a nice timed statment about their electric cars


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Old 6th November 2021, 14:38   #24
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Well we carnt all be queen not enough helicopters
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Me thinks that’s on the wrong thread oops
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Old 6th November 2021, 14:58   #26
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Am I missing something? I cannot understand why tidal use is not being used to generate electricity.

Tides happen twice day without fail (24/7 x 365 days a year) and it's FREE. If flowing water can be used to power hydro/electric dams, then why not sea water?

The relevant turbines could surely be hidden beneath the water, unlike unsightly wind turbines and surely not that expensive to maintain.

This Country is very fortunate in being an island, we have 1,000 miles plus of coast line with many estuaries and inlets.

I have seen nothing mentioned on the current media about this amazing available resource.

Please DEBATE!
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Old 6th November 2021, 16:29   #27
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Ha, very clever Maninder I spotted it, even if others didn't That's why I'm glad you're back posting
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Old 6th November 2021, 17:45   #28
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If only half of what Climate protesters say is correct then we as a planet are in serious bother. Sadly though unless there's a profit to be made nothing will change and as Private Fraser says ' we're doomed'.

Sad to think that our planets future seems to be dependent upon the balance sheet of multi national corporations and the governments beholden to them.

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Old 6th November 2021, 18:09   #29
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Ha, very clever Maninder I spotted it, even if others didn't That's why I'm glad you're back posting

I'm glad you spotted it Ronnie.

I was beginning to wonder if I was wasting my time.
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Old 9th November 2021, 21:00   #30
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Am I missing something? I cannot understand why tidal use is not being used to generate electricity.

Tides happen twice day without fail (24/7 x 365 days a year) and it's FREE. If flowing water can be used to power hydro/electric dams, then why not sea water?

The relevant turbines could surely be hidden beneath the water, unlike unsightly wind turbines and surely not that expensive to maintain.

This Country is very fortunate in being an island, we have 1,000 miles plus of coast line with many estuaries and inlets.

I have seen nothing mentioned on the current media about this amazing available resource.

Please DEBATE!
This has been debated before. I can't remember all the issues, but among the key problems were (a) the cost of building infrastructure strong enough to cope with the power of the tide and able to resist being immersed in salt water for decades (b) the fact that the estuaries with the most tidal activity are usually busy shipping lanes (and if you put the machinery too deep it will miss most of the energy) and (c) the impact on marine life and even coastal erosion given the possibility of altering the natural tidal flows.

If it was possible, it would have been done already. To me the only realistic solution to meeting our energy needs without creating emissions is nuclear. Cue lots of frothing about Fukushima and Chernobyl, but to me there's a fairly obvious difference between either of those (very different) events and a modern European nuclear industry. The French seem to have done pretty well out of it for decades already.
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