Three Cheers for Orkney

[ppppenguin]

When making comparisons it's not easy to account for all costs. Embedded energy is a very tricky one. Whether you're talking about cars, power stations or houses. Other externalities such as cost of dirty air, mining waste etc are also hard.

Is it better to make a widget here using gas or in Australia using solar and shipping it? I don't know and it's not easy to work it all out.

Burning wood pellets at Drax may make sense. But surely not if they are shipped across the Atlantic.