Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "TED" channel.

  1. Why is a a generator technology that can only make power for 20% of the time such a good idea? All that equipment (power lines, transformers and associated support) are doing nothing for 80% of the time. But no worries all we need is even more money spent batteries. We need a power generation system that can beat coal on cost. Anything less will simply displace the coal to those who can' t afford fancy windmills and batteries. What then for climate change? There are nuclear power technologies cheap enough to beat coal and they are fundamentally safer than the massively expensive PWR plants we use today. All we need is the will to build them.  At least British company called Moltex has mad a start. Their first plant a "one off" built on site will under cut CCGT gas plants. When they go to factory production they will undercut coal on costs. They are intrinsically safe and can even burn the high level nuke waste that today's PWRs keep piling up. https://www.moltexenergy.com/news/details.aspx?positionId=106
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  2. Grasslands fertilised by large bovine animals holds more CO2 per hectare than forestry. The real madness is that peat bogs (by far the biggest carbon sinks) are currently being drained so that woods can be planted.
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