On 18/05/2021 14:57, Theo wrote:
John Rumm wrote:
What always intrigues me about pieces like that, is how they all gloss
over the fact that the renewables industry in the UK is dependant on gas
for balancing load and intermittent supply.

Articles like this gloss over a lot.

And they all present it.

In one sentence per paragraph.


I don't think gas is a showstopper as such. Better to use renewable
electricity for the say 90% of the time you can, and generate electricity
from gas only when needed to bridge intermittency (and no other storage is
available - batteries should handle short term grid stability). Result is a
90% decline in carbon emissions. Power stations are also much easier places
to fit CCS than everyone's boiler flue.


One episode of "how to they make that" on Quest showed a ?coal-fired
powerstation where the flue gases were used to make ?gypsum which
was then turned into plasterboard. My chemistry is rusty, so I can't
remember the details. Might be something like this -


https://www.nepic.co.uk/wp-content/u...arbonCycle.pdf