Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Andy Dingley wrote:
On Mar 12, 8:40 am, harry wrote:
The age of gas is finished.

I have some sympathy with this view, but are you going to nip into
your Tardis and go back to tell Thatcher not to build our energy
generating capacity on gas too? If you follow the web links that TNP
has been posting lately, it's amazing just how much of total grid
output has been coming from gas of late.

Yup. With our own supplies diminishing. Which would have been better used
for things it does best - like domestic heating etc.


Sadly its also the best fast start backup technology for power
generation, apart from hydro.

Arguable electricity is the best technical solution to home heating.

The only issue is poor thermal efficiencies at the power stations.


If the gas is finished, or if Putin turns the tap off again, not only
will the heating go off, but the lights will too.

Wonder how long it will take to build up the coal mining industry again?
And of course to persuade anyone to work in them will need very high
wages. Now that the family history of working in mines is gone.