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For those of you too lazy to lokk for yourselves, the 2nd Company is LanzaJet UK Limited. The Ricardo F4C web site is back up if you require further information.
That's awesome and good to see it started in the UK. From what I've read it costs around £25k to set your home up and around 8-9 years to break even. Basically solar panels and storing the excess energy and even selling it back to the national grid if you want. For anyone settled in a family home I'd say do it if you can.
Just bear in mind that a company under the name of Bushveld Minerals "BMN" are making a different type of batterie. Made using vanadium and are safer than traditional lithium. The page on LSE are writing to local MPs about dangers of lithium. So please DYOR about this delicate subject. All the best.
Whis why EDF Bought UK startup Pivot Power who have now placed an order with a Finnish to install 10Mw Battery Storage facilities in UK - check out https://www.wartsila.com/media/news/25-02-2020-pivot-power-an-edf-renewables-company-places-order-with-wartsila-for-100-mw-of-energy-storage-in-uk-2648771
YBD ..... grid scale energy storage is happening, check out the Oxford Superhub, the city council are very green minded and have plans for a Superhub 2 sited at the Parkway station
I like the idea of the back up electric storage batteries that for any reason we have an outage they provide the power. Tesla have started doing these for homes to store excess solar energy and I believe a huge one is being designed for an entire town in Australia.
Something along these lines would be great for street lighting, road signs etc
Fanciful thinking but someone like Elon Musk will put a giant mirror in space so that the world will never be in complete darkness so we can capture more solar power. Another 20yrs and every major city will also have its own nuclear power plant imo.
Steve124. I believe the public lighting System should be completely redesigned with the lights closer together to reduce the dark spots between lights. I don’t think they should just replace like for like. Picked that up from a friend who works for council street lighting design. Cheap short cut is to leave the spacing but change the heads. Makes the street darker!
Definitely, there's always consequences. I remember walking home in complete darkness through cycle paths. Given I grew up in the town and am physically fit / 6ft etc it only made me more cautious. Some people will be mugged and worse with silly short sighted decisions like that.
Thank you Thurg!!
Well said Thurg.
We just had our Sodium street lighting replaced with LED and its like the light output has been reduced 70% so yes we will save electric but accidents and crime may well increase because of it.
Grasp wrong end of stick firmly and then express your opinion. The plant/company in question is not the Nachez site in USA but rather the other recipient of the F4C award from HMG. Ricardo F4C web site currently down for maintenance. Google it when it returns and you will find the answer to your question. I cannot be bothered with people who fail to DYOR and then come out with a load of rubbish.
So it would have been more accurate for the Minister to say "We are supporting 1 company with 2 sites" then?
This government don't know what they are doing Steve. Investing for the future was always a back burner to panic buying for the present. It comes to bite you in the ass rather quickly. Energy is one big example, I remember they cut street lights around 5 years ago 'at night' and rather than invest in renewable power did nothing hoping that saving on a few hours of having lights on would safeguard our energy future lol
"Why would the UK Gov fund a plant in the USA when it wont step in the help Rolls Royce?"
It isn't!
Why would the UK Gov fund a plant in the USA when it wont step in the help Rolls Royce?
Bayou Fuels in Natchez, Mississippi, USA.
You should look at the Velocys web site!
To help overcome barriers to the production of sustainable fuels for aviation on a commercial scale, the Department’s Future Fuels for Flight and Freight Competition (F4C) makes capital funding available. As part of the competition we are currently supporting two projects to build plants capable of supplying advanced fuels for use in aviation.
We know one is Immingham but where is the other?