Then you will understand that these things therefore need to be built on a larger scale to satisfy the required demand.
You seem to have a very negative and pessimistic way of looking at things which isn't good when it involves future planning, if that view was taken on other things then nothing would have ever happened.
National grids for gas and electricity wouldn't exist and nor would a railway network, roads would still be muddy tracks as it would be deemed there were too many to tarmac
The other point i've historically made is that if you properly equip all new build houses and factories etc so that they are at least part way self sufficient in their energy and resource needs then you don't need so much massive national infrastructure.
If all new build structures have ground source heating along with solar panels and a decent capacity of battery storage then it removes a lot of the demand on the national network, likewise if water is captured for flushing toilets etc it reduced the need / demand to build new reservoirs
What we need is more Victorian style grand thinking about what IS possible not the head down depressive thinking of the 1970's where everyone muddles through saying "it'll do"
BR I dont have a negative outlook on this at all, just a real world engineering one.
Right now (19:20) the UK demand is 45 GW of that Solar is zilch and the wind is 2.4 W GW Nuclear is 4.5 GW and the missing is being filled in with interconnectors and Gas at some 24.1 GW
So if we had next to no wind, has happened, we could cover the UK with Solar panels and with Wind turbines which if no wind wouldnt go so we are still using fossill and biomass which are CO 2 producers.
So OK to still use Gas for leccy production and central heating? let alone industrial demand.
That is not the way to go for Carbon nutral or free electriclty power supply. You can talk about storage but have you calculated the ammount of storage on a national supply basis you would need evan if you could generate that from Renewables thats a practially impossible ammount of storage.
Remember also what are you to do with the Gas fossil for UK central heating and EV vehicles?.
OK fine if its the summer months and you have a starage battery thats fine but at this time of year?.
How are you to power the trains a Azuma train set on the east cost main line is some 8 megawatt demand
Let alone the electric vehcile deman ands the leccy for heat punps.
The country that has got this right is France with its carbon free nuclear and hydro.
The country thats fucked it up is Germany where that stupid merkel bint appeased the greens and shut to nukes down and relaced that shortage with Lignate coal one of the woprks CO 2 polluters out so they depenad on France to help them out as do we for as mcuh as we can get ion the interconnecor system .
Fine with new builds that is a step in the right direction but what about exuisting housing a lot of bloody expense to upgrage terrace houses with 9 inch walls i know someone who'ds got one..
Wot we need is relialble Nuclear but large scale is fucking expensive and Fusion is always just round the corner isnt it like a bloody unicorn.
I'd be a very much happier man if Rolls-Royce was churning out factory made fission say 300 to 400 Megawat reactors.
That would replace the useless renewables with depedable energy....
