Message from @PureEvilPie
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Which isn't an issue for UK
But for some countries finding a sea to build them is kinda problematic.
Yea
But we are a fantastic source of wind and tidal energy
Some of those have hydro instead, like the Swiss
Seems silly to pay other countries to import their gas
but some can't have either
When we could rely on our own resources
Also coal is clearly on the way out
Better to be a market leader in new tech
We were market leading in tidal technology
But we stopped investing
The only argument for fossil fuels is that they pay a lot of money to lobby politicians lmao
So I understand why politicians want to keep them
But everyone else? It’s pretty dumb
I'm not against wind if it's done right. But when the whole country is littered by them, I really am not a fan of that.
Well we can have a mix of solar roof
Offshore onshore wind
And tidal
And we can sell our tidal products and tech
To other countries
How stable is that as an energy source?
We used to do this shit
Not sure honestly
Wouldn't you need gigantic battery farms or other shit?
I’ll have to look that one up
But yea battery is the main problem
Battery tech hasn’t kept pace
This will cost a fortune jfc
Of course you can pair that up with hydrogen fuel cells production in the high-power hours or something like that.
But I do not think that is particularly efficient.
Obviously this site is bias
So I’d just focus on the stats in it
Rather than the waffle
But there are some interesting stats about halfway down I think
On tidal and wind
I’ll try and find a diff source though