Electric vehicles

[Tony Griffiths]

In the first six months of this year Scotland produced twice it’s energy requirements purely by wind generation.  

We need the big boys to get behind this, and developing alternative fuels, but I fear that so long as there is money in oil that will not happen.

Although renewables are hug-a-tree-friendly, none make any commercial sense and are only built because their energy is heavily subsidised by vast amounts  tax payers' money; if the owners were paid the same as a power-station, none would be built. They are unreliable, produce nothing on a still winter's day and cannot cope with fluctuating demands; we also pay the companies who run them even when no power is produced. However, the most important fact is that they cannot generate the massive base load, the background requirement for a minimum generating capacity. As the economy expands, the base load requirement increases with it - and that's why developing countries install vast amounts of reliable, power-station generated capacity using coal, gas or nuclear.
But it gets worse, in the UK, as part of the base load compensation requirement and to balance the fluctuating loads at peak demand (and also in a claimed an effort to go "green" - the irony will not be lost on most people) we have installed hundreds of farms of diesel-powered mini power stations. One batch, owned an American company has a CEO quoted as saying, when he won the contract, "It's a licence to print money". And where does the money come from? By a direct levy on household electricity bills - so we are being charged extra for "green" energy powered by diesel. You know it makes sense. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/...esel-farms