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Big Climate has long warned that climate change was going to heat the planet up. Fine, but there is plenty of room for disagreement about the extent of that potential warming, the extent of the threat it really poses, and the best response to it. Climate warriors, however, infected by millenarianism and aware of the value of a scare story, have stressed the more extreme scenarios (one of which and its successor have recently been, rather awkwardly, withdrawn). The planet was “boiling” and so on, and it was going to get even hotter soon. If that is what they genuinely believed, their British division may not have been thinking things through.
Gas power stations across the UK have been ordered to fire up production as soaring temperatures trigger a slump in solar energy. . . .
The notice comes as soaring temperatures make Britain’s solar farms less efficient, putting further strain on the power grid. Solar panel efficiency typically drops by 0.3pc to 0.5pc for every degree that a panel’s temperature rises above 25C.
It should be added that the U.K.’s solar farms were never that efficient in the first place (the country is, well, in the wrong place). On average their “load factor” (the actual amount of electricity British wind farms generate compared with their theoretical maximum capacity) averages about 10 percent, about a third of that for onshore wind, itself a far from ideal system of power generation.
