I'm weĺl aware of such systems but they have limited application certainly amongst our current housing stock. I would contend that near enough aĺl of the heat generated by my boiler is useful.
All of the distribution losses you suggest would still exist in your favoured system.
Methane is a product of all gas extraction, you might have noticed that it oxidises readiĺy to form water and carbon dioxide. Both of those compounds are essential for life.
As for radioactivity - a natural product of the earth.
If Dr Jacobs can show a historical trend over say 30 years (he can't) he might have a point.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2016/01/08/2015-was-not-unusually-wet/
Rubbish, please check what you pay per kWh for gas versus electricity. Factor in energy used in transport and industry makes you way off the mark. If there is a marked move to electrically powered vehicles then there is appauling inefficiency and greater emissions.
There are low risk opportunities, we need to progress them. I drew on the remodelling of the hills by quarrying around Buxton which no one seems to object to and is a big driver of the local economy.
A fracking 'well' head is far less intrusive once installed.
Capacity factors for UK ‘renewable technologies' :
Biomass = 52%
Hydro = 40%
Wind offshore = 31%
Wind on land = 23%
Solar PV = 9%
Tidal = 7%
Wave = 4%
Vs:
Nuclear = 67%.
Gas for electrical Generation ~ 70%
Gas point of use heating 96-98%...
We need to move ahead with a hydraulic fracturing start up somewhere that would not involve a national park. No harm anyway with the permission for horizontal drilling at the depths and periphery involved.
Take a trip to Buxton and its surrounds and tell me quarrying activity there is less...
In other words China and India will carry on as usual trousering whatever is on offer. The US will potificate but do nothing for the rest of the Obama term, Germany/Japan will complete there development of coal fired power stations and the UK will fail to repeal the embarassing Climate Change...
No, everyone goes home happy and nothing changes.
http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=c920274f2a364603849bbb505&id=95e8d96b05&e=96bb006873
http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=c920274f2a364603849bbb505&id=95e8d96b05&e=96bb006873...
It mentions a 115MW wind farm and doesn't provide figures for existing hydro. There is a mention of liquified gas with no mention of its use (as if it might be considered renewable).
Could a similar mix be applied to the UK economy? Certainly not.
From Uruguay's INDC:
"CO2 Emissions - Energy...
Don't believe for one second that China, India or Russia have a common interest with the EU or the US (Obama is powerless in terms of a binding treaty).
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bjornlomborg/2015/12/04/what-will-all-the-hot-air-in-paris-actually-do/
[Lomborg is no sceptic]
Pav, the...
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