Every little doesn't help said the Blair government's science adviser, unfortunately no longer with us. Google sustainable energy without the hot air.
Batteries probably can't do the job, except for smoothing.
We need the equivalent of a coal tip able to supply power for three months stacked in the rain outside power stations. Until a solution on grid scale at a cost equivalent to that of a coal tip is found, we will continue to burn gas when the wind and sun stop.
No-one seems to have an answer to that yet. Except nuclear.
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