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Old 9th Dec 2019, 13:03
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I’m vehement about only one point. That the solutions are technical , scientific and economic , not moral. The sooner the CC zealots grasp that fact , and stop pinning their hopes on teenagers floating across the Atlantic , the sooner we can all move on.
What I cannot understand is the head in the sand attitude of the renewable lobby about the requirement for LARGE scale storage. I am not talking about millions of piddling little lithium cells joined in series and parallel but mega pumped hydro storage.

Is that because the renewable lobby will have to deal with the building of large scale dams and the associated infrastructure which would go against their environmental credentials because of damage that may happen as a result?

I am all for PV and wind but it has to be brought on line in conjunction with storage. Renewables, by their inbuilt intermittency, cannot work without storage.
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