The transition

Plug in solar is in the UK, battery to follow.
The prices are a bit ridiculous at the moment.

Argos is selling UKSOL kits from £599 to £1,199. German buyers get 1,000W of panels and an 800W inverter for around €230. Same components, several times the price.

I presume thats to do with emerging markets, certainly seems no one is getting any grants.

We are limited to 800w, but you also have to buy official setups, which is sensible as mass marketed , government sanctioned kit.

The issue is combining likely poor installation positioning and being the second lowest solar poeer potential country on Rarth.

In international rankings, the UK comes last but one for solar power potential. Solar performs so poorly here that it is by far the least productive in the government’s list of renewable energy generators.

Professor Michael Jefferson, former Deputy Secretary-General, World Energy Council, and contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Nobel Peace Prize: “Our annual average PV output per installation is around half that of southern European countries like Spain. The World Bank ranks the UK 229 out of 230 for solar power potential. This is due to features we can’t change – surrounded by seas and frequently beneath clouds, the varying intensity of solar irradiance during the seasons of the year, and latitude, determining our fewer daylight hours. Across the year, the resultant solar power is a grossly ineffective source of electricity generation for the UK

In fact it averages at 9%, which makes giant farm solar up here in the north , which can dip to 5%, simply an exercise in investors claiming grants and feed payouts.
 
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Solar just surpassed coal for electricity production in China.
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Capacity, yes. Production, not even close.
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It is amusing they still get away with that obvious trick and when they claim a million homes etc, its a theoretical super efficiency home and doesnt include heating and alone of course the renewables couldnt possibly supply those homes without battery storage somewhere in the loop.

I appreciate some people see this as an attack on renewables, just saying where they are.
If I said nuclear was the safest energy production and purposely left out chernobyl and 10 thousand year half life waste, you would rightly call me out.
 
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Anyway Astra gpt6.
I can see about an infinite amount of problems with this.
Starting with lawyers talking to the cloud when the cloud is practically sentient.
This also prickles my equality senses.
Minority woman is shopping, minority man is making rocket games.
White man is running a law firm, white woman is running a business.
I thought that was completely against ESG.

 
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Just saying, but at current prices I can easily charge up my EV at home for what ICE car drivers pay for a single gallon of regular at a gas station that I only need to visit to buy beef jerky.
 
I'm buying my rare cigarette brand at a petrol station :) I also replenish snacks and beverages on my Sunday e-bike rides at the service stations :) The cost of riding an e-bike is as low as I can afford more expensive products :D
 
I've noticed that in bicycle travel I tend to become quite a fan of filling station mini markets. If only because they are (obviously) car-oriented places that are less likely to have people who will mess with or steal my bike. And because the store is relatively small you usually can set things up where you can closely monitor your bike while shopping, something that is impossible to do in a Safeway.

Also, I never said how often I buy beef jerky at mini marts. And if your argument against EVs is an argument against beef jerky it seems to me it is no argument at all.
 
I have zero interest in cars thesedays and certainly dont miss the roar of the engine or anything.
Its like watching dishwashers to me, you cant possibly use a quarter of the power without losing your licence.

If I could get a van with the same range, carrying capacity and fill speed I would swap, but I also dont want a modern vehicle with all the monitoring, sensors and connectivity junk.

So my 2016 Citreon 1600cc is simply perfect, I will run it till Im not allowed, it has full particulate filtering and does 60mpg on the freeway.

3p a mile for EVs starts April 2028, it will be 10p by then if were still a functioning country, Im reaching the age where Im out of the equation.
Im guessing in ten years time EVs will be 90% of cars, but also ordinary citizens arent looking to make a better tomorrow, they are facing multiple attacks on their entire purpose.

If Im still functioning an ebike carrying robotaxi I can summon at any trail road connection would be very handy.
 
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you cant possibly use a quarter of the power without losing your licence.
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A data point: one of the display choices on our Sprinter (188 Hp) is Hp and Torque being used. Rolling down the relatively flat highway @ 70mph uses over 25%. Display spends most of its time ~50%. In the mountains, 90% isn't uncommon. I have not seen 100%, but the transmission controller probably reduces the chance of that happening.
 
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