By JACK W. PONTON (FREng, FIChemE)
Although he has not recently described Scotland as “the Saudi Arabia of renewables”, First Minister Alex Salmond and other supporters of his wind energy policies are still claiming that it is possible for us to make money selling renewable energy to the rest of the world, as Saudi Arabia does with its oil.
Any comparison with Saudi Arabia is self-evidently silly...
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