Posts by hamlet101

Renewable energy 'simply won't work': Top Google engineers

Re: This is not news

how come Portugal gets around 50% of its electricity from renewables then? Google it.

get your facts right!

"well-under-one-per-cent renewables level in the UK" ?????

Last year we got 15% from renewables, well on the way to the 20% by 2020 goal (a target that was scoffed at a few years ago).

Scotland currently gets 30% from renewables, and Portugal over 50%.

Also, in northern Australia solar is now cheaper than coal, without any subsidy at all.

The right renewable solution in the right place really does work - Scotland has almost constant wind. Northern Australia will be getting around 1Kw of solar energy per square metre, and with the efficiency of modern solar panels improving all the time (some prototypes are around 50% efficient now).