Sorry, the claim “UK basically do not have enough land to produce the energy they’d need”… misses “with solar”.
According ESO, in 2022 the UK renewals mix was Wind − 26.8%, Biomass − 5.2%, Solar − 4.4%, Hydro − 1.8%, less than 40%. And wind is roughly half-half regarding on- and off-shore. Many countries are not big islands, or are more or less close to the equator, or have a lot of land. Really hard to scale.
EROI: low but acceptable EROI + storage + need to overinstall = pretty bad effective EROI. And EROI is not all that counts, of course.
While taking a look around the forum for some answer before, I came across this post series (so far I have only skimmed it) that seem to flesh out pretty much my concerns and does it much better I could have. Have you seen it?
Sorry, the claim “UK basically do not have enough land to produce the energy they’d need”… misses “with solar”.
According ESO, in 2022 the UK renewals mix was Wind − 26.8%, Biomass − 5.2%, Solar − 4.4%, Hydro − 1.8%, less than 40%. And wind is roughly half-half regarding on- and off-shore. Many countries are not big islands, or are more or less close to the equator, or have a lot of land. Really hard to scale.
EROI: low but acceptable EROI + storage + need to overinstall = pretty bad effective EROI. And EROI is not all that counts, of course.
While taking a look around the forum for some answer before, I came across this post series (so far I have only skimmed it) that seem to flesh out pretty much my concerns and does it much better I could have. Have you seen it?