How are you all finding this energy rising?

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Physics.
PV just does not work out well in scandinavia, and is so-so to marginal in the UK territories.

That's nonsense. I have a similar installation and produce a bit more than half of my yearly electricity needs, which is 11 MWh using solar energy. My bill was zero during four months per year the last three years. I get paid for the unused energy, and during this year it meant a pretty good income so far. Of course, during the winter there is very little production and all is used by me plus I have to buy as well. Nevertheless solar power is very good investment in Scandinavia as well, and even though I live in the southern part of it, it is quite a bit north of the northern part of Scotland.

It´s hard on You guys, and I symphatise, but theres nothing anyone can do.

Thank you. Though I personally prefer the climate of the north than the heat in Barcelona, especially during the summer.

At some point a high-power transmission line, probably a superconductor, will be feasible to connect northern europe with say sahara.

To be honest, we don't need to make us even more dependent of shit hole countries, quite the opposite, the less we depend on them the better it is. It's enough that we have to increase the oil flow from those, because of an other shit hole country dictator, Adolf Putin, decided to start an invasion war against his neighbour causing all this crap for everyone.

Just as a thought exercise, a 10 x 10 km PV plant of 100% efficiency would generate as much power as the whole of the earth currently uses.

I think that's a severely incorrect assumption.

At our current 20% efficiency rating it would need a 50x10 km area to power the whole earth --
in reality, 3 plants spread throughout the world so the sun always shines somewhere.

Yes? Well, I am not so sure. Besides, how would you transport the power from say the Kalahari, or the Australian desert to Europe? You are a bit optimistic or naive... I don't know which, but it is better if Europe makes itself independent and starts producing enough for our own use. Solar, wind, water and nuclear energy combined is the future, not electricity produced in the Sahara region or even further away. That's just a dream, which could have a worse outcome than that idiot Putin's stopping the gas to Europe causes.