"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 12/11/14 14:06, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Tim W wrote:

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http://www.theguardian.com/environme...nlikely-to-mak

e-the-uk-energy-self-sufficient-report-says

Not a lot of it after all they say.
As I suspected.
But how do they know this?

Nobody knows 100% how much there is and certainly they don't know what
the cost of extraction will be and therefore how much will be
economical now and later.

Except that, as a guy pointed out on the R4 Today prog this morning,
the Yanks have drilled 1,000,000 wells for fracking, so you might
imagine they could give us a clue. In the Pennsylvania area they are
extracting three times as much gas as the whole of the UK uses.

What we do know is that fracking will do nothing to create the
low-carbon economy that we are surely going to need ...

Not at all obvious we are going to need it, since no one has shown
conclusively that CO2 is causing such warming as there is.

I will actually argue that cheap fossil energy is on the way out.

No evidence that it is with brown coal particularly.

However the answer is nuclear, not windmills.