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By Paul Homewood
h/t Graham Worthington
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Graham sent me this segment of a Telegraph interview with novelist Ian McEwan a couple of week ago, asking me to spot the deliberate mistake!
The full interview, which you can read here, was full of the usual luvvie North London nonsense, which the Telegraph commenters, almost to a man, derided. The interview itself was nothing more than a promo for McEwan’s new novel.
As you might expect from a North London luvvie, he has no idea what he is talking about when it comes to Net Zero.
We’ll leave aside the schoolboy error of “gigabytes”. I doubt whether McEwan knows a Gigawatt from a Giggleswick! He no doubt heard it at some dinner party and thought it sounded hugely impressive.
The facts, however, are not quite as impressive as he naively thinks.
For the record, 451 GW of solar power capacity was added worldwide in 2024, close to his “two a day”. Yet solar power still only contributed 6.7% of the world’s electricity that year, up from 5.5% the year before.
But electricity only accounts for about a quarter of the world’s energy consumption. Consequently solar power supplies just a tiny 1.3% of global primary energy consumption.
Nor is solar power “cheaper than coal and oil”. Not in the UK at least. Last year, solar power was subsidised to the tune of £641 million via ROCs alone. We pay for that on our electricity bills, something which Mr McEwan does not have to worry about in North London.
Nor is solar power any sort of solution at all in Britain. For the last four months, the country’s solar farms have barely produced any energy at all – running at less than 3% of capacity. On many cloudy days it is much less than that.
https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/#
McEwan talks about stupidity. If it is “stupid” to want to retain fossil fuels, which are not only cheap but are essential for keeping the lights on, then I plead guilty.
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Author: Paul Homewood
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