Can 100% renewables really work? What about night & windless winter days?
The answer’s YES based on numerous independent studies.
It will deliver huge £ savings, help clean our air - and end dependence on oil dictators & profiteering oil companies. 🧵1/
brookes.ac.uk/About-Brookes/…
2/ A major study looked at 3 years of grid data for 145 countries. They demonstrated:
✅100% renewables is feasible
✅63% saving on total energy costs
✅Large upfront investment, but the savings are so big, it could pay back in under 7 years.
thehill.com/opinion/energy…
3/ Natural variability is dampened by building a mix of complementary sources: wind, solar, tidal, wave, hydro & geothermal. The remaining shortfall can be covered with storage in pumped hydro & batteries (grid, home, car), and price can be used to time-shift demand.
4/ And the study in (2) suggests we can get there without any new costly, slow & unreliable nuclear plants, and without any dishonest fake solutions like BECCS or blue hydrogen.
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