Actually one problem is power storage. It needs somebody to come up with a
cheap efficient way to store the generated powe and feed it in when its
needed.
Brian

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On Thu, 09 Feb 2017 10:13:19 +0000, Chris Hogg wrote:

On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 01:21:24 -0800 (PST), harry
wrote:

http://www.independent.co.uk/environ...-a7570161.html

Bearing in mind it only produced 1% of our electricity in 20125 (see
earlier thread), and in northern Europe it doesn't even return the
energy invested in it during manufacture, one can only be glad that
the Government has at last seen sense regarding this worst of all
possible forms of renewable energy. It might be a different matter if
we lived in north Africa, or California, but we don't.


And (fiscally) 'cheaper' (isn't not environmentally green until the
*entire* process of manufacture and installation are done via self
generated VP electricity) is only 'cheaper' when it's actually doing
anything (which can only ever be say (absolute maximum) 60% of the
time (daylight)).

PV is like saying it's 'cheaper' to bury our waste in the ground ...
till we run out of holes in the ground to tip it of course.

PV (especially here in the UK as you say) is as much a 'solution' to
our reliable energy needs as 'away' is to throwing things away.

You can nearly visualise the UK running on PV as you can watching a
light powered being by someone on a dynamo generator bike. Light,
light, light oh dear, dark. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

p.s. My solution to much of this and especially in regard to the FIT
theft.

Anyone on taking our money via the FIT should be taken off grid (or
they can't claim it). They would then be forced to supply their own
storage solutions to store their own surplus to use when the sun
wasn't shining. They would be given a slot meter where they could buy
electricity off *our* grid at £1/unit.

Or

They stay on grid and ONLY get paid for what they export (at the std
commercial production rate). None of this should ever been seen / used
as just a cash-cow (harry). ;-)

Cheers, T i m