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Re:Slides that convinced Boris Johnson about global warming ... by ChocolateGod on Thursday January 02, 2025 @05:52PM (#42579894)
What's weird is that people who don't think climate change is real / man made are against off shore wind.

Even if it isn't real, off shore wind in the UK is a gold mine.

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Re:Slides that convinced Boris Johnson about global warming ... by natmaka on Thursday January 02, 2025 @08:05PM (#42580999)
Indeed, and it is better at continental scale: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/180592/european-cooperation-...

France, albeit enjoying even better offshore wind potential than the UK, is even worse as it only starts to deploy turbine fleets.

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Re:Slides that convinced Boris Johnson about global warming ... by ChocolateGod on Friday January 03, 2025 @06:17AM (#42584640)
Renewable are boosted by interconnected grids, it's probably always going to be sonny or windy somewhere.

But with Brexit, UK has lost out on potentially being a large exporter of power to Europe, the same way the French do with their excess nuclear power.

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Re:Slides that convinced Boris Johnson about global warming ... by natmaka on Saturday January 04, 2025 @11:30PM (#42599776)
Numerous non UE members sell electricity to members (Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, Ukraine...), including the United Kingdom.
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