Reply to: What happens when you rely on renewable energy

[barrydidit]

I bought some brussels sprouts from Tesco the other day.

Imported from Morocco FFS.

It works in the night time to...


Morocco to switch on first phase of world's largest solar plant

It won't work cos of the shade from Zeity's giant Moroccan sprout stalks.

[d000hg]

It takes about £30 million, and 3 years to build 1 mile of motorway in the UK.

How much we talking here?

Would the EU pay for this via some bigger UK funding?

You can build lots in parallel though

Isn't there that little matter of night time? You know when the sun isn't shining because it is on the other side of the world - doesn't that put a slight dent in your permanent or did you have some other definition?

Sorry I should have made a more idiot-proof description and added <irony> tags.

Anyway this too is easily fixed. Drill a hole right through the earth and twin your solar stations with one on the other side, both sides now have energy all day.*

*For the hard of thinking, this too is not a serious idea.

[scooterscot]

It works in the night time to...


Morocco to switch on first phase of world's largest solar plant

[Dactylion]

You just need to put the solar panels high enough up to be in permanent sunshine.

High level cloud is OK, if you could be above low-level you'd vastly increase your reliability. THat's hardly any miles up

Isn't there that little matter of night time? You know when the sun isn't shining because it is on the other side of the world - doesn't that put a slight dent in your permanent or did you have some other definition?

[d000hg]

Wow, you are a true visionary. High level cloud is about 45,000 feet up. That's 8.5 miles. So some tall sticks then?

High level cloud is OK, if you could be above low-level you'd vastly increase your reliability. THat's hardly any miles up

[OwlHoot]

In a word - socialism

People never learn.

Makes a change from corruption...

Oh, lots of that as well

The two go hand in hand.

[BrilloPad]

In a word - socialism

People never learn.

Makes a change from corruption...

[OwlHoot]

It takes about £30 million, and 3 years to build 1 mile of motorway in the UK.

How much we talking here?

Would the EU pay for this via some bigger UK funding?

Use PFI and let our kids pay it, although it will then cost £60 million per mile.

If we remain in the EU there will soon be presssure to extend average speed checks throughout the motorway network and introduce motorway tolls everywhere, as they do in France.

And once the EU ordains something, public opinion counts for nothing. ...

[Eirikur]

It takes about £30 million, and 3 years to build 1 mile of motorway in the UK.

How much we talking here?

Would the EU pay for this via some bigger UK funding?

Will be funded by stricter IR35 rules and actually enforcing them

[OwlHoot]

One thing I imagine might improve efficiency is to cover solar panels in some kind of micrograting that would refract ultraviolet light from various angles vertically onto the reaction surface, provided the coating was cheap to manufacture, low maintenance, and durable.

[DimPrawn]

You would need to be in outer space, at least a couple of 100,000 miles away from the Earth to have permanent sunshine. You also would need an infrared laser to transport the energy to Earth and probably some mirrors in a Geostationary orbit to get the beam to the right place

It takes about £30 million, and 3 years to build 1 mile of motorway in the UK.

How much we talking here?

Would the EU pay for this via some bigger UK funding?

[Eirikur]

Wow, you are a true visionary. High level cloud is about 45,000 feet up. That's 8.5 miles. So some tall sticks then?

You would need to be in outer space, at least a couple of 100,000 miles away from the Earth to have permanent sunshine. You also would need an infrared laser to transport the energy to Earth and probably some mirrors in a Geostationary orbit to get the beam to the right place

[OwlHoot]

I thought Venezuela had vast supplies of oil? Why are they reliant on renewables?

In a word - socialism

People never learn.

[Mordac]

Wow, you are a true visionary. High level cloud is about 45,000 feet up. That's 8.5 miles. So some tall sticks then?

Or a giant Jenga...

[DimPrawn]

You just need to put the solar panels high enough up to be in permanent sunshine.

Wow, you are a true visionary. High level cloud is about 45,000 feet up. That's 8.5 miles. So some tall sticks then?