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Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: Mace on March 28, 2006, 14:10:03: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/electricity_calc/html/1.stm

Try and see if you can change the world by finding out if you have what it takes to makes the decisions required to meet UK electricity demands by 2020.

Fun stuff :roll: I did my bit and saved the world, no fossil fuels, no nuclear power, generate all our own electric, reduce demand and we'd only need an extra 9255 wind turbines to supply the UK's needs :shock: Now where shall we put them ?

Who said green was easy ?
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: strapping young lad on March 28, 2006, 14:15:18: what was your projected cost per household?

i got mine to 380
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: Budgie on March 28, 2006, 14:41:23: Build 26 new reactors, 4655 wind turbines, get 40m KWts from fossle fuel stations, and insulate 14m homes and it's down to Ã‚Â£326. :wink:
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: Mace on March 28, 2006, 15:11:56: You've got it all wrong, I saved the planet and cost us a fortune in the process Ã‚Â£593.00 !!!! :lol: :lol:
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: Grant on March 28, 2006, 15:12:59: 9255 turbines, stick 'em out in the sea. piece of [throw it] :wink:
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: Edge on March 28, 2006, 15:34:50: Quote from: "grant"
9255 turbines, stick 'em out in the sea. piece of [throw it] :wink:

I'm one of them idiots who think they look cool 8) , stick em in my backyard.
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: wing nut on March 28, 2006, 16:24:44: i built 45 new reactors lol ... just so everyone would have a healthy glow :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: Rangie3.0LtrDan on March 28, 2006, 16:45:29: Got costs down to Ã‚Â£275, imported 80bn kilowatt hours, 200bn kilowatt hours of renewable and 120bn kilowatt hours of fossil fuels, gave all the electricity needed, met all targets and saved a fortune!!! lol
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: Ja1983 on March 28, 2006, 17:57:38: i couldnt be bothered clicking the link.. thus saving enough energy to open up another window and look for "ex girfriend" on photobucket - awsome! :twisted: :lol:
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: Rich_P on March 28, 2006, 18:04:22: Quote

CARBON EMISSIONS
0 tonnes

Carbon emissions are within target.

ELECTRICITY GENERATED
320bn kiloWatt hours

You've met UK electricity demand.

COST PER HOUSEHOLD
Ã‚Â£368 average annual bill

Your electricity costs more than it does now.

You'll be building 0 new fossil fuel power stations, 36 new nuclear reactors and 0 new wind turbines, insulating 14m houses and buying 0% of electricity from overseas.

Nuclear power! :D
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: WishIhadaLandy on March 28, 2006, 18:08:46: Gotta agree with borders, i think wind turbines are the way to go, and i think they look pretty cool too 8)
betta than a dirty great chimney belching black smoke all over the place. :?
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: Budgie on March 28, 2006, 18:32:09: Quote from: "WishIhadaLandy"
Gotta agree with borders, i think wind turbines are the way to go, and i think they look pretty cool too 8)
betta than a dirty great chimney belching black smoke all over the place. :?

That's OK if they're not planning to put 250 of the largest turbines available on YOUR island and effectively covering the centre of the island and turing it into europes largest windfarm!! :evil:

I know, I'm a NIMBY but hay, there's the whole North Atlantic to put them in!! :D
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: bezzabsa on March 28, 2006, 18:34:15: Quote from: "Budgie"

I know, I'm a NIMBY but hay, there's the whole North Atlantic to put them in!! :D

yeah but whos gonna swim out whith the extension lead?? ;);)
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: thumbs on March 28, 2006, 18:41:45: nucleur is the way to go!

couldnt be bothered to do link

if you had 4000 odd wind turbines the how bloody country would hum all the time, thta could be really annoying

at least bird flu wouldnt get here, would be cut to shreads by them before they got close lol
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: Budgie on March 28, 2006, 18:48:49: Quote from: "thumbs"
if you had 4000 odd wind turbines the how bloody country would hum all the time, thta could be really annoying

at least bird flu wouldnt get here, would be cut to shreads by them before they got close lol

And what happens when the wind stops?

Not much!! :lol:
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: Mace on March 28, 2006, 19:49:26: Quote from: "Budgie"
And what happens when the wind stops?

Not much!! :lol:

We all get government issued cans of beans
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: feenix on March 29, 2006, 02:36:17: Piece o P:shock:s

You'll be building 0 new fossil fuel power stations, 21 new nuclear reactors and 9,255 new wind turbines plus other renewable installations, insulating 14m houses and buying 0% of electricity from overseas.

Sorted - cut out the scummers from overseas with their "blocked pipelines", get rid of "North Sea Oil/Gas" which is ridiculously expensive compared to other areas, and building 9K+ renewable energy sources and a bunch of nuke power stations. Stick that in your Kyoto agreement and smoke it.
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: littlepow on March 29, 2006, 17:05:19: Just stick one of these on every new build house,

http://www.outdoorgb.com/p/d400_wind_turbines/

And one of these

http://www.outdoorgb.com/p/sharp_mono_polycrystalline_solar_panel/

Makes every new house require less power from other sources. Costs would be cheaper, as companies would be bulk buying.

Every little helps.
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: mark.yellow.series.3 on March 29, 2006, 19:14:33: Quote from: "Ja1983"
i couldnt be bothered clicking the link.. thus saving enough energy to open up another window and look for "ex girfriend" on photobucket - awsome! :twisted: :lol:

photo bucket whats that then sound interesting :?
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: mark.yellow.series.3 on March 29, 2006, 19:16:03: by the way nuclear rules.

fry the planet, ill be dead by then.
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: Budgie on March 29, 2006, 22:03:02: Quote from: "mark.yellow.series.3"
photo bucket whats that then sound interesting :?

Photo Bucket (http://photobucket.com/) is an online photo storage site where you can upload your photos and then link them to places like this! :wink:
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: mark.yellow.series.3 on March 29, 2006, 22:06:06: cool gonna check it out.
Title: Calculate The Uk's Electricity Consumption
Post by: Lostboy on March 30, 2006, 09:26:24: Quote from: "Mace"
You've got it all wrong, I saved the planet and cost us a fortune in the process Ã‚Â£593.00 !!!! :lol: :lol:

:shock: :shock: Thats what my leccy bill was last year :shock: :shock:

But then I have got white meter heating so there's no gas bill.