It’s pathetic propaganda. You know what’s even cheaper? Coal! Or just going 100% gas! So if it’s really about cost then the answer is zero renewables.
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Zeoic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Its wonderful how they just drop the “20% is gas” part from that headline. Yes, burning gas is cheap, but it is also aweful for the environment and shouldn’t be getting considered at all… 20% of a fuck ton of power is still a shitload of power. I think that’s how those units work anyway.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks ago
SolacefromSilence@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Coal is more expensive, it's not the 90's anymore.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
NG newbuild in UK is not cheaper than wind. Unless NG is extremely cheap due to no one using it anymore, and there are abundant supply options.
davidagain@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Onshore wind is the cheapest electricity in the UK, by far. It’s not even close.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
They undersell the benefits of renewables significantly overall. This is for UK which they come out with slightly lower costs for omitting solar. They also say 5 years to build a 120mw microgrid. 1 post driller, 1 crane for support posts, with 2 workers guiding post insertion and cleaning up, 1 “wall of panels” crane lifter, with 3 workers aligning connecting panels on the ground, and then connecting wall to posts can get 40kw/hour=320kw/day. Complete in little over a year. But, in solar, 9 crews can really make a baby in 1 month.
Microgrids don’t need permits, and utilities will give them an import connection.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 weeks ago
where does it say 20%
Zeoic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That was an extrapolation from where they said renewables would cover 80% in the article. I can only assume the mentioned gas would be the other 20%
wordmark@mas.to 3 weeks ago
@Aatube @kalkulat @Zeoic It's a good thing that the #sun never shines here and the #wind never blows... In 1810, #Chile expelled the #Spanish #colonial rulers, only to then allow a Spanish company to exploit its own solar and wind energy for profit, Apparently, the highways are also controlled by a foreign Spanish investor who is making a hefty profit from the local population (#neocolonialism 🙈👎 also with #water and #nestle and #energy possibly also in your country
Attachment: media.mas.to ↗Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 weeks ago
thanks, that doesn't have anything to do with the concern mentioned you replied to tho
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
What does that have to do with the topic being discussed?
wordmark@mas.to 3 weeks ago
@Aatube @kalkulat @Zeoic its VERY hard to convince local people that it would be a good thing to spend 400 bucks on a #solarpanel and a #microinverter (yes #electronics here are more epensive than in US vor EU) i am #depressed
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Fracking methane should be excluded. It’s 80 times worse for the environment than even CO2.