Re:Scientists caught off-guard by record temperatures linked...
by pjc50 on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @11:36AM
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There's a big gap between "something should be done" and "we should do this specific thing" in which so much politics must happen.
Really the UK needs some kind of energy strategy other than hoping for the market and the Large Combustion Plant directive to sort it out. It needs to be a "yes, and" strategy - there's no reason to set up a dichotomy between renewables and nuclear, that merely prevents progress on either. We need to keep provisioning renewables until the night-time issue becomes significant. Really we ought to have done more with tidal and wave power rather than allow Pelamis to become bankrupt.
Personally I have 4kW of solar on my roof and take a bus to work.
Really the UK needs some kind of energy strategy other than hoping for the market and the Large Combustion Plant directive to sort it out. It needs to be a "yes, and" strategy - there's no reason to set up a dichotomy between renewables and nuclear, that merely prevents progress on either. We need to keep provisioning renewables until the night-time issue becomes significant. Really we ought to have done more with tidal and wave power rather than allow Pelamis to become bankrupt.
Personally I have 4kW of solar on my roof and take a bus to work.