The problem Scotland will have is that the English and Welsh will not want to pay the subsidies to a foreign country.
At the moment, green power gets about 4 billion a year in subsidies, spread across every house and business in the UK. The Scots are about 8 % of that total so if they have to pick up anywhere near that amount, they will be fooked.
If the English and Welsh have coal and gas plants idling, waiting to cover the gaps in the wind, why not wind them up and get cheaper lekky ? it's a no-brainer
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Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostBut not dense enough to pay for prescriptions, nor to get ripped off for exorbitant University Tuition Fees. They let their neighbour cough up for that. Their neighbour, presumably, being even more dense.
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Originally posted by MyUserName View PostSmall correction: The population is actually extremely dense
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostConsidering the low population density, and all the mountains, rivers, wind, bad weather etc., that does strike me as quite shabby. If renewables are going to work anywhere in the UK, it really ought to be Scotland.
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Originally posted by pjclarke View PostAnd Scotland already generates more than a third of its elec from renewables. Not too shabby.
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostThat, along with his oil plans. He really does seem to believe in the concept of money growing on trees, or actually growing under the sea.
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Originally posted by pjclarke View PostRather more sober reporting from Reuters:-
And Scotland already generates more than a third of its elec from renewables. Not too shabby.
Scotland beats 2011 green energy target
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Rather more sober reporting from Reuters:-
Pentland Firth could still generate power equivalent to almost half of Scotland's annual electricity consumption, which amounted to 37 terrawatt hours in 2011, Adcock added.
Scotland beats 2011 green energy target
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All of Alex Salmond's economic ideas seem to be based on using the Scotland's natural resources, which often doesn't sit well with democracy. I think he had some mad plan with Donald Trump to turn half the country into a golf course until those pesky citizens started saying 'well actually we quite like our countryside as it is now'.
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostYeah, tidal/wave seems the one really sensible avenue for green energy in our part of the world, and nobody appears able to crack it.
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Originally posted by Some reporterThe wild-eyed Scots politico
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostThat, along with his oil plans. He really does seem to believe in the concept of money growing on trees, or actually growing under the sea.
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That, along with his oil plans. He really does seem to believe in the concept of money growing on trees, or actually growing under the sea.
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