Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "How Britain is turning the North Sea into a giant power plant" video.

  1.  @kino6395  It's highly unlikely that threat would happen unless things really got bad, but during the Brexit mess, the UK was becoming very hostile towards Europe, and even then, it was highly unlikely that France would cut power to the UK. We find difference ways to resolve our differences.
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  2. I think the real problem is that all of this might not matter in the long run, pretty much any region around the world could be a power house when generating energy if balanced right, what's really needed is energy storage and a lot of it so we can balance the system better. Also, we are quickly getting to the point that I suspect more of us will want to generate energy at a local level on our house or business, with renewable getting better and cheaper, as well as the same for battery tech, most of us would rather generate our energy needs locally, either gridless or grid connected, battery tech is going to be the key for that. There is also a major advantage to decentralising energy, maintaining and upgrading the grid network cost a fortune, that cost is still there with renewables on a grid system, whereas gridless, you cut out a lot of the middle cost. Reports are going around online that going gridless for many will be more achievable for many from 2026 onwards, as the tech for renewable and battery gets better and cheaper, it's going to be more attainable for more of us to go that route, but most importantly on why a lot will want to go that route, for all the promises of renewable energy, consumers are not seeing the benefits of it with lower energy bills, you do your own system at a local level, you control what you generate and what you use, you also stand to benefit from lower cost right away, considering renewable energy and battery tech is getting better and cheaper all the time, it's a given that more of us will want to go that route, because it puts the power into your hand to lower your bills which the system will drag out as long as it can to not lower them, even if they can.
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