{"id":4681,"date":"2023-11-14T23:10:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T07:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=4681"},"modified":"2023-11-14T23:10:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T07:10:18","slug":"can-solar-and-wind-suffice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2023\/11\/14\/can-solar-and-wind-suffice\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Solar and Wind Suffice?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com\/p\/can-solar-and-wind-power-britain?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=1199196&amp;post_id=138388488&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=bz1iw&amp;utm_medium=email\">This update of David MacKay\u2019s numbers<\/a><\/em>\u00a0suggests that it may be possible to eliminate CO2 emissions (at least in the UK) without relying on an extended period of nuclear power use.<\/p>\n<p>But on the other side of the coin we have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/industry-news\/energy-and-resources\/article-head-of-bps-gas-and-low-carbon-business-calls-us-offshore-wind\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Energy&amp;utm_content=2023-11-1_15&amp;utm_term=BP%E2%80%99s%20renewables%20boss%20calls%20U.S.%20offshore%20wind%20industry%20%E2%80%98fundamentally%20broken%E2%80%99%20&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter&amp;cu_id=rhD40Z4eHoO77sGY5czjHg%3D%3D\">a more pessimistic view<\/a> of wind power prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com\/p\/can-solar-and-wind-power-britain?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=1199196&amp;post_id=138388488&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=bz1iw&amp;utm_medium=email\">Can solar and wind power Britain? An update of David MacKay\u2019s numbers<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/industry-news\/energy-and-resources\/article-head-of-bps-gas-and-low-carbon-business-calls-us-offshore-wind\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Energy&amp;utm_content=2023-11-1_15&amp;utm_term=BP%E2%80%99s%20renewables%20boss%20calls%20U.S.%20offshore%20wind%20industry%20%E2%80%98fundamentally%20broken%E2%80%99%20&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter&amp;cu_id=rhD40Z4eHoO77sGY5czjHg%3D%3D\">BP\u2019s renewables boss calls U.S. offshore wind industry \u2018fundamentally broken\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This update of David MacKay\u2019s numbers\u00a0suggests that it may be possible to eliminate CO2 emissions (at least in the UK) without relying on an extended period of nuclear power use. But on the other side of the coin we have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2023\/11\/14\/can-solar-and-wind-suffice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4682,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}