Cheery story from across the pond:

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Stinsy
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Cheery story from across the pond:

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Re: Cheery story from across the pond:

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well well!
Right now many people are doubtful about solar and wind. Thanks (in good part) to fear-and-doubt messaging from Republicans and fossil-fuel interests, renewables are too often associated with privation and rationing—needing to be an efficient-but-miserable hippie instead of gunning the motor and having fun. “Most people believe a clean-energy future will require everyone to make do with less,” as the inventor and energy thinker Saul Griffith points out in his book Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for Our Clean-Energy Future.
Just what I was saying in https://camelot-forum.co.uk/phpBB3/view ... 265#p18265!
Mind you, I do think that a lot of energy use is profligate and wasteful.
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2.0 kW/4.62 MWh pa in Ripples, 4.5 kWp W-facing pv, 9.5 kWh batt
30 solar thermal tubes, 2MWh pa in Stockport, plus Congleton and Kinlochbervie Hydros,
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