MARCH 26, 2024By Paul Homewood
h/t Robin Guenier
There’s only here that’s clueless, and that’s you Mr Marlow.
Anybody with half a braincell was warning about this years ago, so where were you then?
There’s also a genuine question to be asked about whether the UK needs more renewable energy at present. Sir Keir claims that a state-backed energy provider will give the UK “real energy independence” but if the shift to clean power is accelerated, as he is suggesting without also building the massive infrastructure that is required, there is a risk that Britain becomes more reliant on fossil fuel imports, not less.
Better perhaps to concentrate on modernising the grid and building the vast electricity storage facilities required to store wind and solar-generated electricity before we double down on renewables. That means more batteries, advanced compressed air energy storage, pumped hydroelectric dams, and underground salt caverns for collecting hydrogen.
Even now Clueless Ben does not grasp the fact the batteries and other forms of storage are far too small to make the slightest difference when the wind stops blowing for weeks on end.
The only possible solution is mass storage of hydrogen. But he does not tell us where all of this hydrogen will actually come from – presumably he thinks you can pluck it out of thin air.
There is only one viable solution, and that is to embark on an emergency expansion of our CCGT fleet, and immediately abandon any further expansion of renewables.
