On 28/12/16 18:50, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 16:13:45 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Chris Hogg wrote:
And of course you'd have to at least double the generating capacity of
the National Grid and its distribution system. Bearing in mind that
renewables don't contribute more than about 15 - 20% of our
electricity supply ATM, without much prospect of that being
significantly increased, battery powered vehicles aren't going to
happen because there won't be the electricity to power them,
regardless of the availability of the batteries.

Which do you think will come first?
A new generation of nuclear power stations in the UK - or nuclear powered
cars?

Nuclear power stations, obviously, but that assumes TPTB and the
general public would be prepared to go all nuclear, and that there'd
be double the capacity in both generation and transmission, neither of
which will happen any time soon.

treble.

If you take climate change/renewable ******** out of the equation, and
rationalise nuclear regulation, you are looking at a ~50 year process of
building nuclear and building enough grid infrastructure to replace
increasingly expensive fossil with cheap nuclear electrical power
wherever possible.

In the end the market will drive the process, if its allowed to.