A coal mine and it’s equipment also had a carbon footprint in its construction

But the end product also has a negative impact on the environment

Wind turbines do have a footprint in construction

But at least the end product is cleaner

The end product is cleaner only if it's at sea and out of way of migratory birds

Lmao this argument

Which isn't an issue for UK

But for some countries finding a sea to build them is kinda problematic.

Yea

But we are a fantastic source of wind and tidal energy

Some of those have hydro instead, like the Swiss

Seems silly to pay other countries to import their gas

but some can't have either

When we could rely on our own resources

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/25/coal-more-expensive-wind-solar-us-energy-study

Also coal is clearly on the way out

Better to be a market leader in new tech

We were market leading in tidal technology

But we stopped investing

The only argument for fossil fuels is that they pay a lot of money to lobby politicians lmao

So I understand why politicians want to keep them

But everyone else? It’s pretty dumb

I'm not against wind if it's done right. But when the whole country is littered by them, I really am not a fan of that.

Well we can have a mix of solar roof

Offshore onshore wind

And tidal

Tidal power alone if we utilised it in the UK I think can power almost half of our energy needs?

And we can sell our tidal products and tech

To other countries

How stable is that as an energy source?

We used to do this shit

Not sure honestly

Wouldn't you need gigantic battery farms or other shit?

I’ll have to look that one up

But yea battery is the main problem

Battery tech hasn’t kept pace

https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1195254990144786432?s=19

This will cost a fortune jfc

Of course you can pair that up with hydrogen fuel cells production in the high-power hours or something like that.

But I do not think that is particularly efficient.

https://www.greenmatch.co.uk/blog/2016/10/tidal-and-wind-energy-in-the-uk