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Originally Posted by pip08456
As has been said previously it's all very well buiding charging stations etc but the electricity for them has to be generated by one means or another.Solar power is limited to daylight hrs and will be severely limited in the winter months.
Wind power has it's limitations as well. Turbines are turned off if the wind speed gets too high. Neither can be relied upon because of this.
ATM the only alternative is Neuclear. That will cost billions and take decades.
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Thankfully we have decades but we should start right now either way because we need energy. The UK being fully energy dependent is a goal we should chase anyway.
Also I can see us using a mix. Solar is becoming more and more efficient per panel so a future where new houses are decked in the
Tesla-style roofing helping to reduce the energy required per-house from the grid and other measures to reduce the energy used.
A combination of designing things to use less energy, to recapture the energy that we do use (such as breaking in electric cars) and to capture more in smaller amounts from elsewhere (solar) can all help reduce the work of the grid.