Budget 2010
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you just admitted it
236.6 TWh potential per year in Scotland.
CURRENTLY Scotland uses 245197 TWh per year - this the TOTAL energy use for the country, using the national average of 3000kg of oil per capita.
If we stopped using oil, coal etc and ran everything on electricity, then just at current levels "renewable" will not be enough for 0.01%
Why's that wrong?
What?
Why should social control came in the form of taxes, rather than via other means
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We're all outraged at work!
Best stock up on the Cider tonight!
The deficit is going to be slightly less than forcast. So we are not as worse off as we expected. Good. However rather than make the savings on top of that, he decides to spend some of it instead. Sort of like getting one of those consolidation loans and then having a little money left over for a holiday or a car...
As for further defecit cuts, he has given the numbers but absolutely no detail on how to acheive them and he is also basing them on wildly optimistic growth predictions.
The budget was pure electioneering and zero real detail on how we are going to dig ourselves out of the hole we find ourselves in. How anyone can possibly think this is a good budget I have no idea.
I'm not sure where you're plucking that figure from, but it's wrong. Total world energy use in 2005 was 16,830 TWh per year. The entire UK only uses 348.7 TWh per year, so I rather doubt that Scotland has suddenly blossomed into chewing up 245197 TWh.
"Renewables are now contributing over 19% of total electrical production,[10] and about 4% of all energy usage.[11] It should be borne in mind that electricity production is only part of the overall energy use budget. In 2002, Scotland consumed a total of 175 Terawatt-hours (TWh)[12] of energy in all forms, some 2% less than in 1990"
It is, otherwise Scotland would not have set the highest rate of renewable energy in the world.
Scotland will probably very likely end up in the position where it becomes an exporter of energy, by which time investment in renewables will exponetially increase delivery. The ball is just starting to get rolling here now, but it is going to be a massive windfall for the scottish economy (again, like oil).
I also dispute your silly claim, Scotland uses no where near amount of energy as you irrationally claim.
Silly boy.
Its a sorry state it takes the small Scottish government to take the UK and the worlds lead on this. We, Scotland, must be the only country in the world actually exceeding their own climate pledges.
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I bought a new computer the other week, and it's always on... as is my laptop... And because my computer is in my living room I'm spending more time in there, so the lights are on in there as is the heater. I often nip into the kitchen when in the living room so the light in there is often left on and as I'm going into the kitchen more, I'm eating and drinking more so I'm going to the toilet more so the light and fan in there is on more often...
I'm not using 228,367TWh am I? I'm not looking forward to the leccy bill, or the stupidly large courier bill I'll be receiving for my huge bill... Scottish Power are going to love me!
As a non-driving, non-smoking, relatively small drinker's perspective... I don't give a monkey's
Give that man a cider. Cheers
As a non-driving, non-smoking, relatively small drinker's perspective... I don't give a monkey's
However as a potential house buyer you are laughing
I like Strongbow I'll have you know
Meh, I only drink the occasional bottle of cider anyway so it's not really going to affect me...
However it also means those that drink sensibly have to pay more..
That's why I hate the idea of taxing fatty/unhealthy foods as it just penalises those that have that sort of thing as part of a healthy lifestyle.
Because we're bloody bankrupt and need to raise money somehow?
World uses 474e18J which is 474e15kJ which is 131772000000000KWh or 131772 TWh
Scotland uses 245TWh (3000kg of oil per year per person, 5mil people, 46.3MJ per kg), I was a factor of 1000 out in my KWh to TWh conversion :/
Which means that currently Scotland still cannot cover all of it's energy use via only renewable, and this is without any population or use growth.
Scotland only has a population of 5mil, now imagine the rest of the UK which has 61mil (England alone is 51mil).
Scotland uses 245TWh (3000kg of oil per year per person, 5mil people, 46.3MJ per kg), I was a factor of 1000 out in my KWh to TWh conversion :/
Which means that currently Scotland still cannot cover all of it's energy use via only renewable, and this is without any population or use growth.
Scotland only has a population of 5mil, now imagine the rest of the UK which has 61mil (England alone is 51mil).
Can't see why they can't put an extra 10% on tobacco and try and bring the fuel duty down so they don't cripple the country. 10% on cider is all well and good but what about the small real cider makers who struggle to compete against the mass produced rubbish as it is. We are slowly loosing what makes us different and becoming clone towns bit by bit.