By Paul Homewood
I wish somebody could tell why there is such an obsession with coal power!
Given that most of our coal capacity has already been wiped out, it is little surprise that coal power has declined to next to nothing.
But what the Mail inconveniently also points out is that it is now gas which is doing the heavy lifting instead of coal:
Worse still for the proponents of renewable energy, who are behind this press release, it is only because of gas that we have managed to balance generation with demand, as wind and solar power ebb and flow:
https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/#
According to the article:
Gareth Redmond-King, head of climate change at WWF-UK, said: ‘We urgently need to end the UK’s contribution to climate change, and this is an important milestone on our journey.
‘This is the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution – we have been burning fossil fuels longer than anybody else, and we have benefited hugely from it.
‘Now we are showing real climate leadership and breaking records for coal-free power, year on year, as we try to build a greener future.
‘Renewable energy sources now generate an incredible one-third of UK power, proving we can adapt to live without damaging the planet we call home. There is no room for coal in a net-zero future.’
A third of the renewables he quotes, of course, includes dirty biomass, which is neither clean nor low carbon. And there is no evidence that wind and solar will ever replace fossil fuels, as they are not dispatchable.
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April 29, 2020 at 04:09AM
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