The North Africa scheme is not stupid: modern HVDC cables are relatively inexpensive and transmission losses are remarkably small. It would do a very good job of adding a few extra hours of power in … (View Post)

Which is why my comment was about "new warehouses and shopping centers..." etc. If you're building something anyway, adding solar is a marginal new cost. Retrofitting has very differen… (View Post)

He died tragically young. (View Post)

There is no sensible economic case for CCS. As others have pointed out, the money would be better off spent on tidal, or panels, or interconnectors, or whatever. (View Post)

This is absolutely spot on. (View Post)