Us Remainers rail at the Leavers, but this isn't a political swipe, but I do have to mention the Leavers flagship rag, the Daily Fail, I mean Mail. The Mail mentions that if everyone in the UK went EV, we'd need 6 new nuclear power stations the size of Hinkley C [which I'm almost willing to bet will never become operational]. Yet, nobody from the Daily Mail asked the National Grid. They say that if everyone went EV right now, we'd need... wait for it... 0 new power stations. No, I haven't forgotten to put a 1 or 2 in front of the 0. They say, we can quite happily manage on the existing grid. Why? Because people won't/don't all charge their cars at the same time.
Let's put it another way - we never run out of petrol or diesel [OK, sometimes we do, but it's very rare]. That's because not everybody fuels up at the same time. If we did all go and fuel up at exactly the same time, it would take several days to do [queueing], and by some point, all the fuel stations would have run out. Why? Because they simply don't carry enough fuel to accommodate all the cars in the UK, all at once. But they manage it overall.
Right now, in the UK, we have been commissioning offshore and onshore Wind farms [especially] and Solar farms like crazy, simply because someone in government has quietly got the point. They are way cheaper and safer to install and operate, And they produce electricity that costs almost f****** nothing, after the units are paid for, and they do that within 6 months or so. Eventually, someone is going to get the bigger point and have battery storage put with everyone of those farms to smooth out their ups and downs, because the sun doesn't always shine, the wind doesn't always blow. Luckily, it tends to be windy when the sun doesn't shine and visa versa, during the day. And they often produce more than is needed in the local area. So they get switched off. Why not charge batteries instead?
What I'm leading upto really slowly is that this year will be the first one that Renewable Energy will provide more power than Coal and Gas, because it has tripled it's capacity in just a few years, greatly outpacing the 1990s
Dash For Gas. And it shows no signs of slowing. Indeed, it is only going to get faster as renewables get cheaper and cheaper.
This year the renewable power provided will only be greater by a few percent. But we know how significant a few percent tends to be on these shores. Oops, I got political after all.
The best suggestion I saw was it should sound like a car (wow, who'd have thought).
