UK Government Policy Causing Energy Insecurity.

The government have the ideology or rhetoric that renewables are the answer to fuel insecurity. The idea being that if we can generate all our energy from wind and solar, we won't be beholden to the world energy market.

But that's not true is it?

For every single watt of renewable energy capacity that is created, so an identical watt of fossil fueled generation has to be installed as well. That's because every watt of renewable energy has to have a reliable back-up for when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine. 

Energy demand doesn't suddenly stop when the renewables can't deliver. There has to be something else available top fill the void, otherwise the lights go out and people freeze to death in winter.

That back-up generation is now predominantly gas-powered. That's why renewable energy is linked to the spot price for gas. 

Because essentially the system is gas-powered and we pay the gas-powered price for the energy, from which the energy providers make a profit. However, if the conditions are right, we switch to renewables.

Now, if we are gas-powered, you'd think the government, in order to stabilise the price of energy would look to bring the production of gas into the country's borders, reducing the reliance on foreign supplied gas. 

But no, the UK government is shutting down gas production from the UK-owned  gas and oil fields, and instead we are taking gas from the Norwegian-owned North Sea gas and oil fields. Let me state that again. We are paying the Norwegians money for oil and gas we could be extracting ourselves. 

It's most likely actually the same oil and gas we could be extracting, because we do have shared gas fields with the Norwegians. So they are extracting our gas for us and charging us for the privilege. 

So no matter what the Government say about renewables, not matter how much of our energy is generated by renewables, in contrast to what the government say, we will still be hostage to world gas spot prices. 

To get away from world spot price, we need reliable non-gas powered baseload. Nuclear would be a good basis for baseload. But the UK decimated the home-grown nuclear industry so much that we have to buy in nuclear power plants from abroad. 

Part of our mix of energy is biomass, which is chipped trees transported by ship to the UK and then shipped to inland power stations. Yeah, that's surely more economical than coal sourced in the UK. 

It just makes you think whoever is making UK energy policy is insane. These are insane policies, they do not make sense. They do not make sense even in terms of net zero. They only make sense in terms of destruction of UK energy security and the destruction of heavy industry. Heavy industry that creates the weapons to keep us safe. 

Madness, utter insanity.

UK in the Firing Line?

Over the Weekend, Iran targeted the US air base at Diego Garcia with ballistic missiles. 

They fired two successfully, one broke up on re-entry into teh atmosphere, but one did make it to the island and was intercepted by anti-missile batteries on DG.

Now, it's unclear how Iran did what it did. Whether this is some new technology they have developed and are using experimentally, or if they are using something already available but in a new way, like an orbital rocket used as a ballistic missile.

However, what is clear, is that Iran has the capability, should it develop it, to strike within a 3-4000 mile radius. 

That brings Europe into it's range, as well as the South of the UK. 

It was bed enough when Russia was a threat, but now the death-cult in charge of Iran has the ability to target large swathes of Europe, this should signal to European leaders to get off teh fence and deal with the Iranian leadership once and for all. 

This is not a question of colonialism, this is a question of eliminating a regime that would quite easily rain nuclear bombs down on the infidels in Europe. It would also quite happily rain down dirty bombs - nuclear material that would make areas of the country uninhabitable, creating our very own Chernobyl.

It's quite clear the nutters in charge of Iran need to be eliminated, and in quick order. And any new nutters that spring up need to also be eliminated, and the next batch and the next batch, until there are no nutters in charge and we get the regime in charge we desire. 

How Do I Know The Shit I Know?

I wish I could tell you. I suppose I have good memory recall. 

For instance I just watched a video mentioning 77th Brigade. (Hi chaps1). 

From the mists of my memory I remembered one of the senior guys was a chap called Chris.

So I did a Grok search as to who are the members of 77th Brigade:

The public information is:

Brigadier Alastair Aitken (initial commander around formation in 2015).

Brigadier Chris Bell (commander from around 2017).

Gordon MacMillan (reported in 2019 as a reservist lieutenant in the brigade; at the time, a Twitter executive—now former).

Mark Lancaster (former MP; reported as deputy commander in some sources).

Alex Aiken (promoted in Army Reserve to Honorary Colonel role related to the brigade's media/comms group in 2019).

Historical predecessor unit figures (pre-2015 formation from merged groups like Media Operations Group, 15 Psychological Operations Group) include names like Captain Lisa Irwin, Captain Lorna Ward, Major Paul Smyth, Lieutenant Colonel Vickie Sherieff, Commander Steve Tatham, Stephen Jolly, and Colonel Colin Mason—but these are not current 77th Brigade specifics.

So how did I know, from memory, that a guy called Chris was running the show? Where did I hear that? I must've heard it somewhere? I doubt very much that he is currently in charge now. The name that I recall is now Timothy. Who? No idea. 

There are many such instances of me just "remembering" information, 

It's almost as if I lead a completely separate past life and every now and again it bubbles to the surface. 

Is this the point I do a sly <wink> to camera?