Green energy. Is that actually possible?

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Of course the minority ideologies are leading. Look at BLM. 13% of the UK is BAME, 40% in London, seems like 60% in adverts

I’m not sure the silent majority are worried about climate change, and they couldn’t openly express that anyway, such is the world we live in. When they do express their views in an election their representatives are too afraid to do the job.

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Umm, I get the feeling with the Green stuff that we're all out hiking with people going "come along now, keep up!" when some members of the party haven't been offered the courtesy of seeing the map.
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@Islander: No, I'm not an ideologue. I take in all you are saying (although I can go to better sources), but I also look at other opinions and evidence (when it isn't suppressed - and why would anyone do that? Scientific ideas need rigorous challenging; even scientists can, and do, get it wrong), not just what the mainstream feeds me. I see some compelling arguments from respected people on both sides. I basically accept that man-made climate change is possible, perhaps even happening. But we need to think VERY carefully before we go for extreme measures, especially where those measures can cause as much death and misery as any actual climactic events, which with globally enacted policies, they could well do.

It is not just the carbon argument that is affecting these policies either. Others are screaming about methane produced by livestock (predominantly cattle), and what is the response? In Holland for e.g., it's enforced cuts of livestock herds of 30% or more, banning of essential fertilisers (at a time when fertiliser availability is already drastically reduced by the Ukraine/Russia mess). And Holland is one of the world's major exporters of food to the world. It just seems to me that we get knee-jerk policies where the consequences have not been thought through. And so we get major civil unrest as is happening in Holland and many other places. The climate change lot aren't carrying people with them and so ultimately they will either have to crack down, which will produce its own disasters, or they will simply lose their argument, right or wrong. These are serious things to think about.

I will challenge any position where one side is being shut down rather than debated, especially where the consequences of policies adopted can be so great. Again, we NEED rigorous debate on these things, not childish cries of this-or-that denier. To people who do that I say, grow up ffs.
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Saw an interesting video on solar energy and Africa. The Sahara Desert would be a great place for solar farms but the problem is more running interconnects to places that'd buy the energy, i.e. Europe.

Then there's thin-film solar:

https://youtu.be/tQmFVcD-Mbo

tl;dr Stacking thin-films can lead to higher efficiency per square metre compared to traditional glass panels.

Still a long way to rinse all there is out of solar energy; something to look forward to
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