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Originally Posted by Neil
Except when the tide turns and all the lights go out. There is no single solution
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The tide 'turns' at at different times all round the UK so there will never be a time when
every hydro generator is dead at the same time.
Get a good high pressure zone over the UK and
every wind turbine could be sat there asleep generating nothing except cash for its foreign owners.
No, I agree there is no single solution but if we don't build nuclear and gas power stations soon you'll be checking your(wind up) clock to see if it's your turn to switch the lights on.
Half the Government are on the boards of 'Green Energy' companies so how unbiased is it?
We're sat on 300 years of coal which we can't mine or use and 50 to 100 years of gas in Lancashire and we're held to ransom by power companies, all foreign owned, who won't build gas generators because they'd be on standby half the time and won't build nuclear stations because we won't guarantee them an obscene amount per KW.
Will the German and French companies care if our power is off half the time? It won't go off in Germany or France so no problem.
No, they'll say it's in short supply so they'll have to charge us more for the bit we get.
We're sinking under the weight of incompetence.