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Originally Posted by OfOneEarth
Secondly, have you any idea as to the amount of panel area and land you would need to generate even 10% of the UKs usage of electricity?
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I fully agree with you there. I too would not want to see excessive areas of green British land turned into fields and fields of PV cells - but that's why I was suggesting the importing of renewable energy. Take the Sahara desert for example; I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people would not complain if the whole desert were converted into a solar power plant - and the same goes for other hot deserts throughout the world.
The sun in these areas are pretty much guaranteed, much more so than the supply of gas/oil from Russia.
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I am against the use of solar power simply because it cannot make sense to use such a serious amount of technology to make electricity for low tech uses- heat and transport.
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That's true, however the transport industry is on the edge of a revolution in the fuels that drive their engines. The likes of a solar power plant would provide an ideal means for electrolyzing water to produce hydrogen which can in turn be used for both heat and transport.
Also, switch to solar thermal plants and you can produce solar power through a low-tech means, albeit at the expense of water again.