400kW charger - how many of these on a typical local network ?

The green lobby

might not like atomic kettles either. Or big coal chimneys. Or onshore windfarms. Or subsidies. Or burning oil and gas. Or desertification and floods caused by climate change.

But if you look at a big reservoir that was built more than ten years ago, people mostly love them.

Morecambe bay would be just as beautiful, just different.
 
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"The cost of subsidies for new offshore wind farms has halved since the last 2015 auction for clean energy projects

Two firms said they were willing to build offshore wind farms for a guaranteed price of £57.50 per megawatt hour for 2022-23.

This compares with the new Hinkley Point C nuclear plant securing subsidies of £92.50 per megawatt hour."


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41220948

"The subsidies, paid from a levy on consumer bills, will run for 15 years - unlike nuclear subsidies for Hinkley C which run for 35 years."
 
might not like atomic kettles either. Or big coal chimneys. Or onshore windfarms. Or subsidies. Or burning oil and gas. Or desertification and floods caused by climate change..

Theres not much they do like...

Morecambe bay would be just as beautiful, just different.

I wonder how much generation you could get from it, quite a big area.
 
I wonder how much generation you could get from it, quite a big area.

The last proposal I saw was for a lagoon in it, not the whole thing

Not sure what size this one was

"It would be the UK’s first large scale tidal range power project - delivering predictable renewable power of 8 million MWh annually (seven per cent of the Northwest power requirement, and two per cent of national power requirement)."

Which is about as much as a small nuke. But vastly cheaper.

https://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk...y-and-road-link-plans-to-go-on-show-1-9757793
 
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Windpower is a bigger than solar now, and still seen as a terrific moneymaker for the companies building offshore. It's half the cost of nukes. It's almost always blowing somewhere, day and night. But yes, there are periods of prolonged calm.

I don't believe that domestic solar is a viable business proposition.

You said within your two lines above that the wind always blows, then your following sentence entirely contradicted that. The big question is, what do we do for power when it is dark and the wind is not blowing anywhere? Dark, low solar output (or none) and no wind is common in winter. Should we all hibernate?

Nukes care nothing for the what the weather is doing, they generate regardless and keep in mind we need generating capacity anyway, to cover for no sun and no wind.

Tidal can generate twice per day ( I think?), so still of limited value.
 
Nine days with no wind generation ( no wind ) LINK

Bearings: The Achilles Heel of Wind Turbines

Although this article is from 2014 there still seems to be a large financial cost in replacing failed bearings in wind turbines.
 
If we were a member of some kind of regional trans-national group, we could, together, build something that spanned a large area and could balance out demand and supply.

Most of Western and Central Europe, for example.

But we would have to learn to be co-operative with other countries, which might be hard for some.

We could also invest in a solar scheme in one of the sunniest parts of the world. Saharan Africa, perhaps.
 
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https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/electricity/transmission-networks/electricity-interconnectors
 

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