The video asks a good question. Has anyone actually worked out how much electricity will be required?
Our politicians are "travelling hopefully". They are doing what willl earn them some Brownie Points now and just hoping that it will all work out.
Someone needs to do the sums on how all this "renewable" stuff is going to work. For instance, I found out how much energy the UK gets from its largest conventional power station and worked out how many replicas of the Ivanpah solar plant we would need to replace it. Assuming all the right battery storage was in place - no small issue - we could replace it with 30 Ivanpahs.
Now, at 6 square miles per solar plant that amounts to 180 square miles of mirrors in the UK. The UK is quite small. If you pick your direction carefully you can get to the sea from anywhere in the UK by travelling just over 60 miles. Where would we put all these solar plants?
Even worse, our latitude receives less sunlight than Ivanpah in the Nevada desert and, surprise, the weather is not so sunny, either, so I reckon we would need at least twice as many plants as I have calculated.
OK, you can wave your hands and say we would use something else but at some stage things will need to become fixed. Wind power has issues whether on land or at sea, The UK does not have enough mountains for hydro. Someone needs to do some serious working out ASAP.
The video asks a good question. Has anyone actually worked out how much electricity will be required?
Our politicians are "travelling hopefully". They are doing what willl earn them some Brownie Points now and just hoping that it will all work out.
Someone needs to do the sums on how all this "renewable" stuff is going to work. For instance, I found out how much energy the UK gets from its largest conventional power station and worked out how many replicas of the Ivanpah solar plant we would need to replace it. Assuming all the right battery storage was in place - no small issue - we could replace it with 30 Ivanpahs.
Now, at 6 square miles per solar plant that amounts to 180 square miles of mirrors in the UK. The UK is quite small. If you pick your direction carefully you can get to the sea from anywhere in the UK by travelling just over 60 miles. Where would we put all these solar plants?
Even worse, our latitude receives less sunlight than Ivanpah in the Nevada desert and, surprise, the weather is not so sunny, either, so I reckon we would need at least twice as many plants as I have calculated.
OK, you can wave your hands and say we would use something else but at some stage things will need to become fixed. Wind power has issues whether on land or at sea, The UK does not have enough mountains for hydro. Someone needs to do some serious working out ASAP.
sounds like a time to break away