Written by by Paul Homewood at wattsupwiththat.com
Mad Miliband did no tell us how much his crazy plan to build giant flywheels up and down the country would cost, but Paul Burgess came up with these numbers:
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Hello everyone. Well there I was peacefully making my hydrogen video, you know, explaining the myth and the delusions about hydrogen, when in came a comment on one of my videos saying what do I think of Milan’s flywheel idea. And when that came in, I didn’t know about it. I was busily working and whilst I’m aware of what flywheels are used for in the energy system, which is to really stabilize frequencies and take care of very very small time increments to smooth things out, I wasn’t aware that our energy minister Ed Miliband had completely lost the plot with claims that flywheels are going to help balance our grid in terms of storage taking and you know, uh excess energy which we still pay the full price for of course and moving it into periods of high demand.
This is a nuts idea and Ed Miliband is easily the most dangerous um person in the UK at the moment because he’s going to ruin our economies. I mean this last week we’ve closed, we know we’ve closed Tata Steel, we’ve closed our last Coal Mine, uh we’re doing away with Grangemouth um costing thousands of jobs. What we’re… we’ve stopped new um exploration of the North Sea and uh and so on and so on and so on and we are… this man is so dangerous he’s fanatical but the worst thing is he really doesn’t understand the most basic basic things about energy.
Now let me give you one of my problems when I go to research these things and like flywheels I look for how much storage, how much energy they can store. You’d think that would be a simple issue because that’s measured in megawatt hours, kilowatt hours, gigawatt hours, but it’s measured in hours. But no, all you get is oh this flywheel can do 20 megawatts. Well that’s meaningless unless I know what time it can maintain that for because that gives me the amount. And I’ve actually been in situations of public meetings when I’ve gone up to so-called experts who didn’t understand the difference between a kilowatt and a kilowatt hour and I find that amazing.
So the kilowatt hour is the amount of energy that means one kilowatt for 1 hour. A kilowatt is meaningless unless you know how long it can last. It it it’s meaningless and yet all the time journalists and even you know promotions videos just use the megawatts or the kilowatts without giving me the storage.
So it always takes me extra time to try to find out how much storage is in these things.
Now from the outset here I knew that flywheels can store a very little amount of energy and so I’m going to explain in this video just how stupid this man is and the idea is to avoid blackouts in Britain. Well I’m sorry to say this isn’t going to help at all with blackouts.