Comments by "rob" (@rob338) on "Dan Wootton: Boris, there's an energy crisis at home and it needs immediate action" video.

@Tyler_Fuller For sure. The ironic thing is this stuff is pretty apolitical. You can generate relatively pollution-free electricity to keep the greens happy and a decentralised grid should mean less reliance on foreign power to keep the conservatives happy. But oddly we're just faffing around and not getting things done. Will take law changes and subsidies but we do that for other things (think of how house prices are kept aloft by government 'incentives'). Is amazing how on the ball we were with this stuff decades ago. Look at something like the pumped storage station in Wales - uses reservoirs to store energy later used to make power. Was an example of 1970s engineering - tho wasn't complete till the 80s - and pretty cool. Just checked the name - Dinorwig.
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Well Wooten has done his best to keep covid spreading and his take on energy policy is similarly moronic. I would therefore respectfully suggest not listening to idiots like him with a dark agenda, and also not voting for Tories.
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No they don't. A recent report had the number at around 25 dying per half million infected (pre-Delta). There were also 4800 in hospital and 690 with inflammatory disorder. The anti-vaxxers are literally betting a deadly virus mass-infecting kids is a good thing. They're very, very wrong. And it will haunt us for decades.
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Dose you absolute muppet. Too much and a) Human's can't breathe properly and b) Plants will start to die off.
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@mga59xbd38 Your statement is contradictory. If greenhouse gases don't cause climate change then what was causing the climate to change in the past? Perhaps you should read up on the history of climate change and understand that Arrhenius worked out the CO2/atmospheric heating thing in the late 1800s (Eunice Foote did similar research earlier). To simplify for the brainlets here - look at the moon. It is roughly the same distance from the sun as the Earth. But its surface temperature veers from around - 120C to +120C during the day - the moon is both hotter and colder than anywhere on planet Earth. The reason the moon is like this is because it has no atmosphere. Earth has an atmosphere so heat is absorbed and moved around (via winds and the oceans) which ensures a more even distribution of heat and the ability for life to exist. But the level of heat absorbed is dependent partially on carbon dioxide levels. Push them up and more heat is held and you get problems like we're having now.
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This is Britain, most of the population live in cities. Try going off-grid in a terraced house in Swansea - is not doable. What you're arguing is the rich can go off-grid and the rest of us can just put up with it.
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@Tyler_Fuller Yeah but you need to other kit to go with it - inverters or heating systems for starters. Am not disagreeing that preparing in this way is a good idea (it actually is - decentralise power generation), just that it isn't an option for most of the population of the UK at present. Remember a good 30% rent and good luck getting your landlord to install solar or giving permission to stick a turbine in the garden.
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@Tyler_Fuller Honestly with some decent government policies it would be quite widespread. Do you remember when they did the solar tariff and panels were appearing all over the place? Maybe people can come together in groups and sort out some community power generation (as with allotments etc.) Even something like a 1m2 panel in each garden could take a lot of the strain off the grid and could be used for charging electronics & similar. But as always cost, laws and other impediments exist.
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What gene therapy? There's several different vaccine types with different methods of action. There is no type that alters your DNA, ergo no gene therapy.
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@RickMcCargar They reduce transmission. No vaccine is ever 100% successful and you'll find that they said this from the start. If natural immunity was really 20x better then we wouldn't be getting reinfections, would we? There's been a fair few of thos of late.
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Yeah cool, and would you like to tell us those rural NIMBY people with the expensive houses that their houses are now worthless? HS2 has cost a fortune for a bloomin' train line - building a dozen coal stations and digging up chunks of the country for mines would cost far, far more (before we even get to the pollution aspect). Before anyone has a go - this is also the reason we don't have more nuclear power stations. Or solar arrays. Boo hoo, muh property prices sort of thing.
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