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The United Kingdom is the one rich industrial country that cannot run on solar alone, and it has to build wind at scale instead.
Last stated 8 Dec 2025 · 9 months ago
Holds CH Casey Handmer
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Britain cannot live on its own renewables under its current lifestyle and consumption levels.
Last stated 3 Nov 2008 · 18 years ago
Holds DM David MacKay
Same subject: solar, energy
A future of constrained energy will need more people working the land, and that is not the same as going back to the past.
Last stated 30 Jun 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds CS Chris Smaje
Same subject: solar, energy
A solar system holding a trillion humans is the right thing to aim at, because a population that size would have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins alive at once.
Last stated 14 Dec 2023 · 3 years ago
Holds JB Jeff Bezos
Same subject: solar, energy
After four more doublings of installed solar capacity, solar electricity will cost about 3 cents per kwh in the sunniest areas and 4.5 cents per kwh in moderately sunny areas.
Last stated 14 May 2020 · 6 years ago
No longer holds Ramez Naam
Same subject: solar, energy
An acre of solar panels powering electric cars carries you orders of magnitude further than an acre of crops grown for fuel.
Last stated 5 Sept 2023 · 3 years ago
Holds HR Hannah RitchieMG Michael Grunwald
Same subject: solar, energy
Average solar electricity prices in sunny parts of the world will fall to one or two cents per kwh by 2030 or 2035.
Last stated 14 May 2020 · 6 years ago
Holds Ramez Naam
Same subject: solar, energy
Cheap clean energy has broken the old trade-off between raising living standards and cutting environmental harm.
Last stated 9 Dec 2025 · 9 months ago
Holds CH Casey HandmerHR Hannah Ritchie
Same subject: solar, energy
Demand for electricity will rise to absorb far more solar than is currently considered feasible.
Last stated 14 May 2020 · 6 years ago
Holds Ramez Naam