ITV Calendar Miners' Strike Anniversary Coverage

Which ever way things progress, energy is needed to spin things. Steam or whatever power to churn turbines.

We have countless rivers and surrounded by sea. Even turbines are spun from drainage points of dams.

The technology is there and so is the water.

Nobody wants to do it, cos they can continue to rip off high charges on existing technology. IMO of course

 

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Am not that clever Baz lol. Researched knowing nuclear power is on the wane. Cos of costs. Of disposing of waste and dangerous as fekk.
Copied and pasted from Greenpeace .

 

Without the long-term availability of coal, oil or gas - all are limited amounts left in the ground - we need something to provide baseload. Nuclear does that - and in normal operation nuclear power stations emit less radiation than coal power stations. Fusion would be better, but thats been the next 20 years for the last 40...

The main issue with the storage of radioactive material is that with short half-lives. If you have 1kg of Uranium-235 today, you'll still have 500g of the stuff in 700 *million* years. Only 500g would have undergone decay or ~1g per million years. Wood is ~1% Carbon-14 with a half-life of 5000 years, so 1kg of wood would decay ~1g of C14 per 1000 years. A tree emits more radiation than Uranium.

Its the medium- term half-life material that is the problem - most of the short-term stuff has decayed by the time its transferred to the storage location.

 

Global infrastructure should make the equator a solar station that could power the world.
I watched a documentary showing a photoelectric road coating that if all of the USA’s roads were resurfaced with it would provide enough electricity to power the entire United States.

The issue is too many people make too much money from existing energy production and there is no global co-operation that wants to fund free energy for the poorer countries on the equator if they can’t make a massive profit out of it.

 

I read somewhere that it's more efficient to produce solar power in Germany than send electricity there that's been produced by solar power in Morocco.

 

Fair volts drop that distance lol.

 

Hey up Busan. Is this available on catch up. If on calendar I assume not. Obviously most on here I would imagine missed it, due to the Bolton game. Or could you post a link if not. Please.

 

Hi Hooky feller,

Two of the pieces are written up with longer videos than were on programme if you follow the links below:

https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2...recovered-why-the-miners-strike-still-matters

https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2...t-community-that-united-after-being-destroyed

And then a performance from Grimethorpe Colliery Band:

https://www.itv.com/watch/news/the-miners-hymn-a-special-performance/yc936v7

 

Thank you sir.

 

but none of the big players in wind tech put a bid in to build because price was too high due to tories pricing