Electric Cars

[Mexican18]

If someone lives in a house that has no off-road parking (Eg Coronation Street)how can they charge an electric car?

[New Judge]

//Gas and coal generation were turned off for half of the year.//

I don't think gas was turned off at all in the last year. Current supply from the National Grid (even as we speak):

Gas: 40%
Nuclear: 17%
Wind: 23%
Imported: 13%
"Biomass" (aka wood): 5%
Coal: 2%

[Unsureme]

Karl,30km on a full charge doesn't seem very good.

[Sunk]

TTT,
Fusion :-D Lol.
The game changer will be battery technology.
Saving electricity generated during low demand and storing it. Tesla have build a prototype battery plant in California. It will save wind and solar and put it on the grid during peak demand.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2020/08/13/tesla-begins-construction-of-worlds-largest-energy-storage-facility/

[Khandro]

It is estimated that tidal energy (the Severn barrage etc.) could provide 12% of UK needs, clean, 'free' & eternal.

NJ. if you are still here, please look at;

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Current-Affairs/Question1738694.html

Apologies to Mexican

[New Judge]

The Severn "Tidal Lagoon" project has been dogged with controversy for some years. I doubt it will ever see the light of day.

The fact that there only a handful of tidal power stations in the world leads me to believe that they are either not terribly practical or economically unviable. It sounds a great idea - regular and reliable free energy. That just makes me wonder all the more why there are nor more of them. Since each one will slow the rate of the Earth's rotation perhaps that's the reason there are not too many!

I'll have a look at your other question after I've had tea and bikkies, Khandro.

[Ryzen]

Mexican...pop into Screwfix and ask for a cordless extension lead...