Renewable energy sources - the good, the bad and the ugly

They showed some power control station, that ran the grid, on the TV the other morning, all the cables coming in from Europe were importing electricity at that time.
Great British Energy will sort it all out and we will be self sufficient.

 

This is the issue. How cheap it could be is not necessarily how cheap it will be. Govs in general have a very poor record when it comes to securing deals for the general public.

 

Add to that that we are not able to make steel anymore, we are fast becoming dependant on other countries more and more.
And even what we do make or produce is becoming owned by foreign countries, its called investment in the UK, but basically boils down to being dependant on other countries and at their mercy in times of trouble, often with massive handouts to those companies to protect jobs.

 

Apparently if they ever do get an arc furnace up and running it will only be able to process scrap steel and not actually make new steel.
I'm prepared to be corrected on that, but if that is the case we might as well just save the handouts and buy from abroad.

As to the P&O embarrassment, its just another case of the government finding its a bit different when you are in charge and not just shouting from the sidelines, what P&O did was wrong, but closing loopholes with international companies are not easy.

These companies are a law unto themselves, I dont see how you overcome them.

 

With tough employment law. Amazon workers in Germany have much better conditions than those here because laws there make exploitation harder.

 

100% correct, all new virgin steel would have to be imported and when the UK introduces CABM in 2027,making new imported steel more expensive.

The UK CBAM will place a carbon price on some of the most emissions intensive industrial goods imported to the UK from aluminium, cement, ceramics, fertiliser, glass, hydrogen, iron and steel sectors.

The government talks about getting people back into work, the problem is the government wants the general public to work in sectors that they need. They have destroyed our industrial sector without replacing those lost well paid jobs. Many people studied and gained training in many of these sectors, now to be made unemployed.

I have been so angry with this proposed peat ban that in July I decided to call it a day. I no longer make compost for trade customers and will just carry on making and selling compost for the general public to come and collect as I wind down the business. I only have two members staff left who are working their notice period with everyone else already been made redundant. To ban me and other other compost manufactures based in England from using peat, yet allowing imports to come into the country is not reducing our carbon footprint.