Energy firm says UK's shale gas resources could be huge

kabayiri

grizzly1911 wrote: »

They seemd capable of burying a massive pipeline from Milford Haven across Wales (well at least Pembrokeshire) to deliver LPG from Tankers.

I know buried power lines get hot and are therefore less efficient.

I read that it is an order of magnitude more expensive to run underground cabling.

It is an issue of cost, not technical capability I suspect.

grizzly1911

kabayiri wrote: »

I read that it is an order of magnitude more expensive to run underground cabling.

It is an issue of cost, not technical capability I suspect.

Guess National Grid will be off to Ofgem for an increase in energy tariffs then, like all utilities do, when there is a need for new infrastructure..

antrobus

PaulF81 wrote: »

They could replace the two nuclear reactors in the south west by putting tidal turbines in across a estuary barrage across the Severn. Would generate 40% of the UKs entire domestic energy requirement in the UK apparently.

But at something like three times the cost of nuclear, and twice the cost of offshore wind, apparently. HMG's feasability study didn't appear that keen.

grizzly1911 wrote: »

Think of the implications for all those birds and fishes.

The RSPB have certainly considered the implications for the birds. They're agin' it. I believe the Marine Conservation Society is similarly agin' it because of the fish.

thor

antrobus wrote: »

But at something like three times the cost of nuclear

Is that including the cost of decommissioning nuclear power stations and storing the waste for thousands of years?

antrobus

thor wrote: »

Is that including the cost of decommissioning nuclear power stations and storing the waste for thousands of years?

No idea. You can read the feasability study if you like.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/50064/1._Feasibility_Study_Conclusions_and_Summary_Report_-_15_Oct.pdf

ILW

Can't we just start digging up the coal again? Worth it just to annoy the green lobby.

antrobus

ILW wrote: »

Can't we just start digging up the coal again? Worth it just to annoy the green lobby.

Apparently the thing to do these days is not to actually dig it up, but rather to set fire to it, and turn it into gas, aka underground coal gasification. Cluff Natural Resources is already in possession of a pair of licences to do just that in Wales, and is applying for more in the north-east. There is (or so it is claimed) enough coal under the North Sea to produce more gas than we ever managed to extract so far in the form of natural gas.

wymondham

I'm just waiting to see the next disaster flick from Hollywood - got to be a good story about massive earthquakes and corruption?

antrobus

wymondham wrote: »

I'm just waiting to see the next disaster flick from Hollywood - got to be a good story about massive earthquakes and corruption?

Something like 'Promised Land' (released last year) only with explosions you mean?

padington

A large fracking gas reserve is a hole in the ground with an ecosystem in considerable danger and a liar pretending this not to be the case on top.