As we have come to expect, their predicament just reflects their general lack of thought. They fell for the "clean air, clean water, think of the children" rhetoric but I bet not one of them has tried to work out what it would mean if the world went the way they think they want us to.
For instance, how much land will their "renewable" solutions take up? It will not be a trrivial amount. Will they be happy with that amount of habitat loss? I bet they don't know.
Here is a starter to get an idea. Pictures are from Google Maps. The power station in the bottom left hand corner is Drax in the UK and the rest of the picture is copies of the Ivanpah solar plant in the Nevada desert that would produce the same output over a year. Each set of three mirrors takes up six square miles so one power station needs 180 square miles of mirrors - in a desert. We do not have a sunny desert in the UK so you can multiply that by at least two.
Now think how many power stations the UK has and how much land you would need to replace them. Then start thinking aboiut storage ...
This is not rocket science. We can spot the issues now. Let's all agree a solution before we plunge headlong into "Net Zero" and mandating electric cars.
We literally need to mine minerals for hundreds of years at 2019 rates to get enough material to just build the current gen renewables enough to replace hydrocarbons.
And that's assuming that there's enough of the stuff in the ground in the first place.
As we have come to expect, their predicament just reflects their general lack of thought. They fell for the "clean air, clean water, think of the children" rhetoric but I bet not one of them has tried to work out what it would mean if the world went the way they think they want us to.
For instance, how much land will their "renewable" solutions take up? It will not be a trrivial amount. Will they be happy with that amount of habitat loss? I bet they don't know.
Here is a starter to get an idea. Pictures are from Google Maps. The power station in the bottom left hand corner is Drax in the UK and the rest of the picture is copies of the Ivanpah solar plant in the Nevada desert that would produce the same output over a year. Each set of three mirrors takes up six square miles so one power station needs 180 square miles of mirrors - in a desert. We do not have a sunny desert in the UK so you can multiply that by at least two.
Now think how many power stations the UK has and how much land you would need to replace them. Then start thinking aboiut storage ...
This is not rocket science. We can spot the issues now. Let's all agree a solution before we plunge headlong into "Net Zero" and mandating electric cars.
We literally need to mine minerals for hundreds of years at 2019 rates to get enough material to just build the current gen renewables enough to replace hydrocarbons.
And that's assuming that there's enough of the stuff in the ground in the first place.