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Chris Vernon on March 1, 2007 - 3:23am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Maybe - but we couldn't produce the electricity. The UK faces a more serious electricity shortage than oil shortage over the coming decade or two as nuclear is decommissioned, gas becomes scarce and aging coal is decommissioned on environmental grounds.

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PeakPlus on March 1, 2007 - 4:54am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

The answer will probably be to burn more coal, ruin the scottish countryside with windmills and to import surplus energy from France and Germany - like the Italians are doing.

But there's one thing I really don't get. Why aren't the southern Europeans (Spain, Italy and Greece) going all out on solar power? Why not subsidize it big time, like the Germans are doing? Why does this foggy old country think they need to show the rest of the world what to put on the roofs of the barns and houses?

One could, of course, organize this big time:
http://www.trecers.net

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