Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "Julia Hartley-Brewer clashes with Jacob Rees-Mogg over net zero 'obsession'" video.

Fracking stopped they had a 2.9 quake near Blackpool that was after pumping a test well with 1 million gallons of toxic goop, there was also multiple shocks on a smaller level. Tho make the field operational they would pump in 10 million gallons to crack the shale increased volume has a direct connection with seismic activity. The legal limit is 0.5 If the fracture due to the earth quake splits the rock into the water table your poisoning Greater Manchester's water supply
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@Fred Smith Wind and tidal with some solar
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Fracking stopped they had a 2.9 quake near Blackpool that was after pumping a test well with 1 million gallons of toxic goop, there was also multiple shocks on a smaller level. Tho make the field operational they would pump in 10 million gallons to crack the shale increased volume has a direct connection with seismic activity. The legal limit is 0.5 If the fracture due to the earth quake splits the rock into the water table your poisoning Greater Manchester's water supply. You also have no control over the price it goes on the world commodity market so the government see added revenue but we get none Net zero is a benefit not a curse localized energy will fetch the price down and Wind is the cheapest form of production by a country mile plus we should have more tidal schemes
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@simongardiner949 They managed to create a Quake just under x 6 the limit with test amounts of fracking liquid only. Also there long term expensive projects that can take several years to come to market with disruption to the local landscape and huge amounts of pollution and at the end of the day the product is sold on the world commodity market. A better model is to decentralize energy production as much as possible and use technology to get rid of the peak demand which drives up the costs. Gas is used in this final peak and drives the wholesale price through the roof. Plus build more wind install more solar build a couple of Nuclear plants we need more across the board non of it tied to fossil.
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@simongardiner949 you drill through the aquifer then through rock into the shale, there is no way of stopping minor quakes the overriding issue with fracking is the 10 million gallons of toxic slurry your creating. It's just an environmental nightmare all round. The quickest way of solving this short term is a drive to insulate the 18 million homes that are sub standard change the building regs to make greater thermal efficiency mandatory. The quickest way of adding capacity to the grid is opening up onshore wind farms to add extra capacity it could be done within 6 - 9 months if you declared it a national emergency. In our current situation we need round about 10% thats 6/7% from thermal efficiency savings +4/5% short term build to start getting the overall price down. Long term we need more decentralised power otherwise we're into large scale grid construction the flagship nuclear stations may sound good but you need a localised mix to keep the grid stable while not covering everywhere with pylons. People will use less gas if their homes don't leak like a colander
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Net zero isn't your problem its the price of Fossil, reducing reliance of fossil will fetch down the price
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were paying the the oil and gas companies upwards of 75 billion in rebates to clean up the mess they left in the Brent fields
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It would lower electricity prices because we wouldn't be tied to the world commodity market and reliant on large fossil companies its a win
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@Bob-dt7vt New tech is coming on line all the time one of the things that would really help is to devolve the grid making a substantial portion of it domestic solar and wind tied to storage, basically your middle class buying in to charging their EV and being "green" and fairly energy self sufficient. I've just built an extension and used up to date insulation techniques plus converted to underfloor heating plus use a solar thermal panel for hot water cost me +5% on my build saves 95% on heating and hot water. My payback is still 10 years at current prices though by November that will change to 8 by the look of it. The government should be tax breaking and pushing this stuff it saves huge gobs of energy, reduce demand and the price will fall
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Net zero isn't the problem Fossil fuel is if you let idiots like Mogg distract you with blather about fracking your just buying into the Con Any gas cracked from shale will go onto the world commodity market we have zero control over its price and fracking is dirty dangerous and destructive to local environments. Electricity from wind is a fraction of the current retail price and there's a host of greener distributed technologies he's just talking bollox
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@nemosays6337 they have already switched from cobalt in batteries lithium comes mostly from Australia and refining oil uses way more cobalt plus its unrecyclable On top of that graphene is being mined in Canada please don't spout Fossil propaganda it makes you look like gulible, if your going to Diss EV's at least do some proper research
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