GRETA

My thinking is every suitable roof on houses,buildings should have solar panels on them as should suitable brownfield sites that cant be used for housing etc.
Its a pity there arent any domestic wind turbines because id have made a fortune this weekend

 

I agree @WeeTam about solar panels. I would love to cover my roof with them but unfortunately it is too much money. I run my little greenhouses with solar power but that is as far as I can afford to run with alternate power.

I don't think solar, in my winters, would ever be able to replace our natural gas heat unless one had a full field of panels next to their house.

Geothermal looks interesting too but another thing I cannot do, living in a suburb.

 

I enquired about roof panels and was told I'd never get my money back as I dont use enough electricity, the bloke spent more time looking around my garden and allotment than bothering about the solar panels when he saw my electric bills.

 

Aha, @pete, but this is my thinking. If I had my own power generated, I wouldn't have to be so stingy about using it. Life would be a lot simpler not having to shift usage to nights and weekends or worrying about the bill coming in after spring cleanings or other active times.

 

I have my doubts as well. Problem is storing renewable electricity for the still dark nights. Charging all those electric vehicles every night causes problems, who wants to switch the television off at 10:00pm to allow the car to charge for the school run.

 

I've seen road signs over a number of years with their own solar panels, why can't this be done with road lights? I realise cost is a major part (as always) but with more and more new housing estates being created, solar lights could be placed as the roads are constructed. LED's can and should be used to replace all the older lighting.

 

I take your point FC. With that idea abandoned, we know that many roads are over-lit and many roads are un-lit which doesn't seem to cause problems. Perhaps we should cut down or remove lighting from many roads. All vehicles have lights and apart from safety issues like major junctions many lights could be removed.

 

Definitely the case, no process can be a 100% efficient , if they were we wouldn't have this problem.

 

Just saw on the news here that Greta is to get her own TV series....and its being produced by the BBC....is there anyone that still thinks she is not doing this for money?

Or is it fake news?

 

Hang on, we'll need lots of that solar power to grow stuff under LED lights because so many of our green fields will have been built on. Or to power battery powered trucks to import more of our food.

What, like removing indicators as they've already done with BMWs ?

 

After deep deliberation over a glass of Jamaicas finest, I've come to the rather "rum" conclusion that electricity should be banned...just think, that would solve all pollution problems at one fell swoop! With no cars, we would be forced to travel round on horses...just think of all that lovely manure for our gardens!

I'd like to bet Greta couldnt come up with such a simple solution!

 

Self driving electric cars is the answer.

 

Think of all that methane they produce.