Reply to post: Re: $2/kwh is a lot of money

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Jellied Eel Silver badge

Re: $2/kwh is a lot of money

Mid scale pumped or mass storage systems in the 500kW to 5MW generating capacity range; times 400 substations would offer a massive boost to the strategic and tactical planning of the system.

Alternatively, you finally realise that trying to build a reliable energy grid based on fundamentally unreliable generating sources is never going to work. It doesn't matter if it's batteries, winching mass blocks up and down with cranes, or pumped storage... It only adds cost. Plus in an island like the UK, where would you put it that isn't already covered, or proposed to be covered in windmills or solar panels? Hydro's great, but only if you've got suitable locations to build it.

Offshore wind is popular with Tories because planning permission doesn’t lose you elections. Bills of 5k, on the other hand. That will lose elections. And not before time.

I think you'll find it was dear'ol Ed Milliband and his main squeeze, Baroness Worthless who gave the UK the Climate Change Act and got us into this mess. Sure, not many MPs voted against the CCA and it's 'legally binding' committments, but any future government could unbind that thanks to legislation Blair gave government.

Problem for the UK is both parties still think 'renewables' are a good idea, and we should be investing even more of our money into scum sucking subsidy scammers. It's not their money after all, and while both parties agree to hand over our money to the Green Blob, nothing will likely change.

Then again, there have been hints that some realise it's not working, will never work, and investing in nuclear is probably a really good idea.. But that'll take time to come online.

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