• Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    41·
    1 day ago

    Somebody tell Nigel, we could probably power 1,000 homes off his impotent rage.

  • ReCursing@feddit.ukEnglish
    17·
    2 days ago

    Great! Now lets base energy prices on something other than the wholesale price of gas!

  • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    I’m not by any means patriotic, but my heart does swell when I see this, and also when I see the fleet of windmills from the airplane as we fly into europe.
    Like, we did this, and showed the world that it not only works at scale but that it can be primary source.

    Yeah fine, energy brokers will still hike their prices eventually, even if the cost of production becomes negative, but we’re not killing the world with capitalism we’re just killing each other with capitalism. And I can live with that.

      • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
        52·
        2 days ago

        England is beautiful above the clouds. And then you descend into the grey and… well it’s still beautiful under the grey and dreary sky, but in a different way

    • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      82·
      2 days ago

      with no research and 0 sources I can confidently say you can thank China for this, someone’s out there making solar and wind actually affordable and cost effective and I can guarantee you it’s not the west

      some-controversy

      • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        For wind I think you’re looking more towards the Danes. You don’t ship wind turbines and blades from China.

        Solar, yes.

    • Lussy [any, hy/hym]@hexbear.netEnglish
      78·
      2 days ago

      Like, we did this, and showed the world that it not only works at scale but that it can be primary source.

      You keep your lands ‘pristine’, unsullied by the ‘dirty’, ‘unsustainable and unsophisticated’ cultures because you offshore your wastefulness and environmental destruction to foreign lands via overwhelming resource extraction and exploitation. Be proud of your ability for violence and cruelty but do not ever confuse it for ingenuity or virtue.

      You’ve shown the world this works at scale? You have destroyed the world environment while maintaining these contradictions, that’s all you have shown the world.

      • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        I’m not sure where you’re getting the idea that I think the UK is a green paradise. It is far (far) from it, but I see initiatives like our fleet of wind turbines and I see figures like 40% and I can’t help but feel proud.

        Celebrate the small victories in life, otherwise the weight of the world will literally consume any sense of gentle good you might have