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Re:German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nucle... by keanzu on Saturday November 09, 2019 @08:42PM (#21495843)
If solar covered one percent of the UK it would meet the country’s entire power demand. That's a guarantee of making a huge part of the country uninhabitable if the UK went all solar.

https://www.solarpowerportal.co.uk/news/if_solar_covered_one...

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Re:German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nucle... by angry_octet on Saturday November 09, 2019 @10:26PM (#21496214)
UK has massive wind energy potential, solar PV not so much. Completely different problems in the UK.
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