George Monbiot does some back-of-an-envelope figures on UK energy needs over the next few decades and where they may be met from. A disturbing analysis...
“We needed 41.9, so our shortfall is some 23 gigawatts at peak demand, and 34.8GW of total capacity. (The need for spare capacity could be greatly reduced if we managed demand rather than supply, as the great free-thinker on energy systems, Walt Patterson, has suggested)”
However, there didn't seem to be so much on decentralised network grid generation (maybe that's what Walt Patterson is advocating?) but I wonder if that might make a difference?
George Monbiot ? How Much Energy Do We Have?:Filed in: nuclear_power, CO2, environment, costs, energy, UK, policy
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