More than a third of the UK's electricity is still generated by burning a finite resource from out of the ground
www.nationalgrid.com/stories/energy-explained/how-much-uks-energy-renewable
I guess the missing 22% is nuclear
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 14:04,
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If you want real time figures
This site's hard to beat
www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 14:46,
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40% from burning gas, even worse
and hardly the green alternative. With all the losses/inefficiencies you'll get during power distribution, how is it better for the environment to ditch your gas boiler?
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 21:41,
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it's an odd argument against EV vehicles
that because UK government policy forces consumers to choose polluting power sources because of their status quo energy policy in the face of global warming and the worst European drought in at least 500 years, they should buy a car that can only run on polluting power sources.
It's a bit like saying, "well I'm going to drop my strides and shit on this beach because the government is pumping sewage there anyway". It's not a particular morally defensible position.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 6 Sep 2022, 0:26,
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If all the fuel used for ICE vehicles was used to generate electricity for EVs
- there'd be something like a 60 % reduction in the fuel being burned.
EVs are massively more efficient than internal combustion is at turning potential energy sources into moving mass.
www.globalfueleconomy.org/media/460864/electric-vehicles-summary.pdf
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Mon 5 Sep 2022, 7:03,
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