Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

[Gutter Boy]

Spain has 300 days of sun a year, the UK less than half that, and probably even less if you move north which is where the most uninhabited land is that I'm assuming is where the solar farms would be sited, so not sure there's much point in the comparison.

The UK is already littered with wind farms, on and offshore, not sure how much more capacity we can squeeze in.

Spain is mostly wind, not solar. They just got to 75% total renewables (100% on good days) by ambitious policy decisions. Solar panels on new houses has been mandatory since 2005, whereas it still isn't here.

We probably need to double, maybe treble our current provision. We're legally bound for that to happen by 2050. It's just if we did it by 2035, we'd have no cost of living crisis and be free from being hostage to foreign wars sooner.

 

[Gutter Boy]

Also our energy consumption is going down. We're at about 270 TWh now, compared to a height of 370 TWh in 2008, due to improved efficiencies