In article , harryagain
scribeth thus

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...
On 13/08/14 13:45, A. Lurker wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote hastily:

Its more fairy dust mate. Forget it.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
Lord Kelvin, ca. 1895

There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever be
obtainable.
Albert Einstein, 1932.

"By 20202 the whole country will be running off renewable energy"

A stupid Green


Kelvin should have known better: birds which are heavier then air flying
machines already existed. However if he didn't know about the internal
combustion engine, he as in fact quite correct. Without the internal
combustion engine heavier than air flight was impossible.


There was in 1932 no indication that nuclear energy was ever obtainable
and a year or so later every reason as the world tipped towards war, that
anyone who thought otherwise be sworn to extreme secrecy.


These were of course NEW technologies. Nothing about wave or tidal poer is
new.

The record of the warmists and renewable energy aficionados is so riddled
with false claims that there isn't time to list them all.


To put it in simple terms, we know how much energy is in the waves and
tides, and we know how much of that we can reasonably extract and we know
how much area of sea is needed to get a given amount of energy, and we can
calculate a minimum cost for the structures and technologies required to
extract it.

All these give minimum costs several times greater than even solar panels
and windmills and no possibility without even further costs of massive
dimensions of solving the intermittency/dispatch problem.

Neither is there any new technology that might change this.

You can live on dreams if you like. I prefer a bacon sarnie.

The point is that renewable technology is not shiny and new, in fact its
centuries old and we abandoned most of it years ago.

Because it didn't work.

And still doesn't.




Full of ****e as usual.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%25_renewable_energy


Wonkypedia .. Yes isn't it just;(...



Sticking titanium shoes on a carthorse is all very well, but it still cant
draw a 4,000 tonne train.

A diesel engine can.


When there is fuel to run it.



--
Tony Sayer

..