Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "Southbank Investment Research" channel.

Your bill is double because the energy market is tied to gas if we had more renewables it would be cheaper
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@jimwoods9551 there crushing the blades and using the crush in road building Did the math on tidal the other day v nuclear Hinkley C capital cost 33 billion + 30 billion in subsidies over 35 years guaranteed price per unit @ x3 times current wind + inflation Tidal based on the Swansea figures for similar generating capacity 50 billion no fuel costs just maintenance expected life based on dams 100 years?
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@nuancematters The on demand capability is idling GAS power stations if we had more wind for basic supply and MegaPack storage for grid smoothing the costs would plummet
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the energy they generate is x3 cheaper than the current nearest source Nuclear and coal the reason our bills are so expensive is being tied to fossil
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you can put the array on stilts it helps create shade areas underneath slows evaporation look up Agrivoltaics
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first its not true you can recycle both you stick the blades in a big crusher and can use the the resulting crush in road building second wind and solar are 3 times cheaper than Nuclear and Coal In fact Tidal has now caught up in terms of capital costs due to all the subsides for nuclear
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@manoo422 your a good few years out of date renewables reached parity with gas prices back in 2019 and have been getting comparably cheaper since Quote from Bloomberg Is offshore wind 9 times cheaper than gas? This assessment yielded the result that the average price of offshore wind power deriving from the most recent round of Contracts for Difference auction process was around nine times cheaper than the international price of natural gas prevailing in August 2022.15 Jun 2023
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@nuancematters our peaker plants run on gas they need replacing with storage for grid smoothing A Tesla MegaPack over in Calafornia has replaced old standby stations saving a Billion a year (cost 750 million)
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@brynleytalbot778 proper doomster we are aren't we. Just refurbed and extended my house added double insulation and new windows (it needed them anyway) + underfloor heating which hasn't tripped in since april /may Gonna add solar and a battery when the roof gets done in the next couple of years already get nearly all the hot water from solar thermal Just insulating homes properly including new builds would save huge amounts of energy
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@brynleytalbot778 secondary insulation was done with superquilt its under 100 per 10 square meters stops condensation stone dead there's no sweating or anything with it its batten (airgap) Quilt Batten (airgap) Plasterboard I added an air exchange to stop negative pressure at £100 Its made by YBS go look it up you just staple it onto battens and tape over the seams. So £500 for the whole extension just £200 if you did your loft I did the floor as well but with FloorQuilt there's no thermal bridge with it They where developed on the back of space suit material As for waste you crush it and use the crush in roads its never been a problem just governments don't mandate it
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I know where at around x 3 times cheaper production cost for renewables
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Wind and solar are only just getting started we need more asap given its x3 cheaper than Nuclear & Coal
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@davidsea1482 the more renewables we get the cheaper it will be here's why Hinkley C nuclear reactor costs 33 billion + 30 billion in subsidies over 35 years has a guaranteed unit price of 110p per unit + inflation The equivalent offshore wind farm producing the same amount of electricity costs 9-10 billion + 750 million for a Tesla MegaPack onshore the unit costs are currently around 42p Neither the wind turbine nor the grid storage has an input fuel cost there's just maintenance therfore your contract price doesn't go up with inflation You need base load but currently we only have 17% wind it could be as high as 60% and still operate you only need 30% base load remember the storage to get these working effectively is regarded as base load
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