And his numbers are wrong, as I knew they would be. Greens like him seem to make up numbers as they go along because they know no reporter will even challenge them.
The truth is all renewable energy product doesn’t even make up for 50% of Scotland’s energy. And all renewables include wind, solar, hydroelectric, etc. So I don’t know where he pulled the 97% from wind out of.
Where they pulled that out of?
Well, you have heard the term, “Breaking wind” haven’t you?
You get only one guess.
I reckon he got them from this...
I make no claims for accuracy
He pulled his numbers from here.
http://www.wwf.org.uk/about_wwf/press_centre/?unewsid=7432
Unfortunately, he can’t do Math and speak English at the same time. Doh!
Scotland consumes approx. 25,873 Gigawatts of electricity annually, where 41% is domestic (10,607 Gigawatts), 59% is industry/commerce (15,265).
Electricity is ~ 20% of all energy consumed in Scotland. (Heat is ~ 55%. Transport is ~ 25%) Total energy consumed is ~ 145,000 Gigawatts.
Wind turbines produced ~ 8,958,130 Megawatts. That is ~ 84% of domestic electricty needs, ~ 35% of all electricity needs, and ~ 6% of all energy needs.
The genius has confused household usage (3,790 kilowatts × 2.4 million homes) with all of Scotland’s energy consumption.
M.O.R.O.N.