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It would be a joke if it wasn’t so expensive.
By Paul Homewood
http://eandt.theiet.org/news/2015/jul/solar-independence-day.cfm
The solar industry has apparently been bragging about how much power it has been producing recently. Unfortunately, they seem to have forgotten to tell us the full story.
In overall terms, solar only generated 1.2% of UK’s electricity last year.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electricity-section-5-energy-trends
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/energy-trends-section-6-renewables
But worse still, in Q1, when demand is at its highest, solar only provided 0.51%.
And if that was not bad enough, when solar power does ramp up on sunny days, it simply provides problems for the grid, as this presentation from the National Grid earlier in the year showed:
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‘But worse still, in Q1, when demand is at its highest, solar only provided 0.51%.’
Solar power on short winter days with low or no sun? Forget about it.
The cool forecast for the UK.
http://earth.nullschool.net/#2015/07/30/0000Z/wind/isobaric/250hPa/orthographic=-15.89,65.82,319
http://cosmicrays.oulu.fi/webform/query.cgi?startday=23&startmonth=06&startyear=2015&starttime=00%3A00&endday=26&endmonth=07&endyear=2015&endtime=00%3A00&resolution=Automatic+choice&picture=on
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Forecast temperature of 3500 m.
http://earth.nullschool.net/#2015/07/30/0000Z/wind/isobaric/700hPa/overlay=temp/orthographic=-15.89,65.82,319
The decrease in solar activity and increased pressure on the Polar Circle.
Temperture in Greenland.
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=72.58333588,-38.45000076&sp=04416
I’m happy to see them making the 15% claim. It gives the government the opportunity to say ‘look at what we’ve achieved , we can now cut the subsidies’.
The strong ionizing radiation (GCR) over the North Pole.
Bad enough here in Australia where we do at least get a lot of strong sunlight, but who in their right minds would install it in Britain?
wickedwenchfan: anyone who wants to get a fat solar subsidy for 20 years for doing no work.
If the whole story was told about solar, it would not exist in places like the UK or Germany.
If the whole story was told about solar, it would be relegated to niche uses like topping off batteries at remote locations for light use applications.
If the whole story was told about solar, there would be fewer white collar criminals and corrupt politicians on the street.
hunter: it’s not just white collar crims, the mafia like what they see too.
“This is a sector in which money can easily be laundered,” Arturo de Felice, head of Italy’s anti-mafia agency, told news channel SkyTG24.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/italy-makes-biggest-mafia-linked-assets-haul-1-074946800.html
and
http://notrickszone.com/#sthash.7wJz1Lqa.PbRzaxr2.dpbs
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