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The UK is a bad place for solar power. Spain or Egypt would have much higher, and more reliable, output, that could be more easily predicted and buffered. I hav
by Derbasti 12y ago
The UK is a bad place for solar power. Spain or Egypt would have much higher, and more reliable, output, that could be more easily predicted and buffered. I have heard figures like 4x between spain and the UK.
What about tidal power? That should work well in the UK.
- xyzzyz 12y agoavailable tidal energy is relatively low, on the order of handful kWh per day per UK citizen. extracting all available tidal energy would require extraordinary investment. in effect, it's unrealistic to expect more than 1-2 kWh per day per person. solar and wind are much better bets, though neither is on par with coal. I recommend reading this book: www.withouthotair.com/ it contains nice estimates of energy used by UK people on the one hand, and energy available from various sustainable sources.