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The way around this is to think even bigger. The UK should be exporting green energy. Which means installing two or three times the capacity projected, plus as
by neilwilson 3y ago
The way around this is to think even bigger.
The UK should be exporting green energy. Which means installing two or three times the capacity projected, plus as many nuclear power stations as we can throw into the mix.
For a nation that relies upon imported food, it is vital that our exports are also required by the rest of the world. Being a major green energy exported - particularly if we can bottle it as synthetic liquified methane - is the way the UK needs to go.
You don't need storage if you build big. Those who import from you need the storage.
- cm2187 3y agoWind goes pretty much to zero on certain days (like 3%). You don't solve that by overprovisioning. There is also quite a high correlation with the weather across Europe, and when it is windy in the UK, chances are it is also windy in most of the major countries the UK could export energy to. As for nuclear, again, it doesn't make sense to use it to compensate for wind. Just make it run whether the wind blows or not, and save the cost of a wind farm.
- pfdietz 3y agoThe dark-calm periods are solved by burning e-fuels like hydrogen in turbines. Europe has the geology for cheaply storing many petawatt hours of hydrogen.