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Energy Security in 10-years: UK & Worldwide:
Energy security in 10-years the UK: SMR technology: The National Grid Re-Engineering: At Low Cost:
Stable wholesale gas prices in the next 3-5-years? NO, at best 5-10-years debatable, small modular reactor (SMR) energy is required to deliver minimally 50% of our current & future requirements. 2022 production 310TWh, 2050 projected 610TWh based on low GDP growth, we expect high GDP growth, we further expect rapid increase in demand for electricity through EV technology advancements and conversion to localised heat pump air/ground source systems. Gas is not an option.
Understanding the need for high GDP growth will enable the processing of logic to arrive at a position where the UK makes up for 15-years of “zero” growth, prior to this period growth was spectacularly ordinary, the UK was and will be once again a business powerhouse, Japan’s GDP output is the target and the timeframe is 5-10-15-years maximum, to facilitate this we must have 100% energy security, our national security advisors at GCHQ demand this as a consequence of external foreign pressures.
Only business and private investment will drive this, and only innovative ingenuity and technical advancement will deliver this; operating 24 hours a day 7 days a week, Government historically has had no part to play in any of this process and therefore no part to play in the future. There is “no box”, there is “no sky” thought process is the only way forward.
Overwhelming opinion confirms that our energy grid is in effect requiring massive re-modernisation. There is an absolute tendency in the UK to arrive at a problem and stop, where the approach from today must be to go around, go under, go over or go through the problem to ultimately arrive at the solution, we have absolutely no time left.
Consider upgrading all our Gas/Wood-pellet and existing nuclear large scale power stations (to include Hinkley Point) with SMR plants that operate in isolation or in parallel, coupled with a network of offshore SMR plants that are at sea level and operate below sea level, in all cases planning and the usual proliferation of legislation that prevents this advancement is in effect “overcome” as the locations are either existing or are offshore/floating/sub-sea and no rules apply to prevent progress.
Within our network of Rivers and Canals we are able to “install” cable systems that will take new power output directly into existing localised sub-stations and large-scale energy consuming businesses, arenas and housing estates, thus relieving the national grid of the problems it is faced with today. London is unable to expand materially quickly as a result of poor infrastructure and lack of power, this applies to all major cities in the UK.
Saying NO to “Gas” power stations, saying NO to “Drax” burning trees and saying NO to EDF and the unrealistic Government “ambitions” to build 25,000MWh of large scale nuclear power stations over the next 25-30-years. EDF are a business owned by the French government paralysed by incompetence.
Macroeconomic challenges manifesting in inflationary and recessionary pressures calling for decisive, innovative industrial boldness. There are fundamental flaws with the World’s “obsession” with wind, solar and battery energy generation, an extract from detailed research by Prager University:
https://www.prageru.com/video/whats-wrong-with-wind-and-solar
For a split second consider the notion that the UK can secure as much as 50% of its energy needs moving forward from wind/solar/battery power through operating such infrastructure on a continuous basis, no not possible, further that this source of energy is not subsidised in any way, and it will not after 25-years or so require dismantling and reprocessing, given that massive elements of this infrastructure simply are not able to be recycled let alone reprocessed and Lithium mining?
New inventions, innovations, creative reprocessing of “waste” materials, re-energising our trade routes without Government intervention, rapid surgical changes in the energy, housing, water and food supply sectors will “pave” the way for Britain to once again be an industry-driven country to the benefit of all. The advancements we derive from the processing of the above in record time will result in massive export opportunities that will run in parallel over the next 10-year period. Process this.
Shaun Cousins BSc Hons
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