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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
I'm disappointed with your reply. Renewables need wind and light (see a calm night followed by a calm day for problem details). Your statement is too glib when you look at the realities.
We can assume that the government has charted wind locations from a strategic perspective so that eventually there can be continuous wind power sources. But have they tied that into consumption demand timelines, grid connectivity challenges, technology to overcome turbine load shedding, timeline risk assessments?
In the meantime, we should exploit our own carbon resources as an insurance against timeline risk rather than hypocritically buy carbon products from elsewhere.
Do you agree with me?
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No.
We should be exploiting whatever’s left of our expertise in nuclear energy. Thankfully, while we shamefully allowed our civil capability to wither to the point that we had to ask EDF to build new mega-scale power stations for us, our military nuclear capability means we can yet get back in the game with small and medium sized modular reactor plants derived from the designs used in our submarines. And in the next 6-7 years we will have expanded our uranium enrichment capabilities to the point where we can securely fuel them as well.
Oil and gas is traded on international markets wherever it is produced and it would only ever be nationalised for domestic use only in a dire existential emergency. The fact that we have plenty of it under our seas does not therefore offer us the hassle-free energy security you seem to think it does.