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The Future of Energy

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For the past few days, I have had time to look for papers and research on the way the UK will look at energy, there are a lot of reports available on the web, but each one is written with a particular slant to it, the Engineers looking for massive structure, the Government looking for tax, all the various business units looking to enhance their particular corner. The recent exit from the European Union, has opened up a need to look at this in a new way, we are an island, we have many forms of energy resources available to us, long term and short term. I can't find a paper academic or other, that looks at the whole gambit, of energy, from small users to the mainline industrial needs, the way solar can balance with other renewables, to the way things like my computer consume power, and the manufacturers views on power consumption for  the way we live and work. Is energy consumption guided by the need to generate jobs, I hope not. Energy is all encompassing to the survival ...