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We wouldn't want to import all our electricity from one country anyway, even if that country wasn't quite as unstable as Libya. A more realistic option for the
by fauigerzigerk 4y ago
We wouldn't want to import all our electricity from one country anyway, even if that country wasn't quite as unstable as Libya.
A more realistic option for the UK might be a submarine HVDC link to Morocco, sort of a bigger version of Viking Link project, which connects the UK to Denmark. I'd like to know if the technology exists to imort, say, 5% of our electricity via that route.
- katkatkatkatket 4y agoWhat would be the point? Even getting 5% of our power from desert solar would be astronomically expensive, and a logistical and political problem of historic proportions. All for a tiny fraction of our power usage. Just build nuclear!