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Seems like the UK is getting more serious about battery farms now 



https://www.airqualitynews.com/2018/07/23/plans-for-southampton-battery-and-ev-charging-sites-unveiled/

Rethinking Electricity, interesting topic I'm interested in.  Really to much information presented in the last two vids to comment on.  Nice to see these projects moving forward.
Carl2

I think this could be good news and another step in the right direction.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45873785

The last I heard, wish I could recall where it was but one of the companies developing solid state batteries had a working prototype that charged very quickly and had a larger capacity than standard lithium iron, it had a problem though, it would discharge itself far too quickly, leaving you with a flat battery in just a few hours or days.

I see the author of the video has passed away

RIP  David MacKay

Interesting video but quite old now, the UK has already got around 3 to 4 X more renewable energy than was stated in the video, also solar panels are more efficient now, wind farms are fitted out at sea, bio fuel in cars ? no no no, Electric cars are here NOW. Lets also not forget energy storage which is starting to happen.

It's hard to see into the future but nice to see how far we have come since the video was made 

I have attached an image of the UK's power mix taken today at 9pm, no solar as it's night time.

NOTE: 53% low carbon electricity 
0% coal and only 35% gas, a lot better than the 90% stated in the video. We are getting there 

There is a lot of sea around our country, I didn't hear him mention any of the windfarms we have out there   

Yes exactly Dave  

The video is called a "reality check" I think it's time for a rethinking of that "reality". Technology has already come a long way in such a short space of time, we are still building wind farms, hydro power is coming, battery storage including "car to grid" technology will happen too, none of that was taken into account in the vid. Will we ever get to 100% renewable? Maybe not but I think we can get close  


Lets have a little look at them then:

Heating, efficient electric heat-pumps can be used.

Transport, electric cars, hydrogen powered heavy goods vehicles, trains, ships.

Industry, this is an interesting one, much of our industry uses electricity, that is already taken into account in our electricity mix charts posted above, some industries do still use gas I acknowledge that.   

Once we stop refining oil we will save a huge amount of power too