Good Ideas in Generating Electricity Require Thinking Outside the Box

Golden Hamster

Here’s an article in which the author demonstrates the folly of replacing the nuclear power plants in the UK with wind and solar.

Was anyone suggesting that this would be a good idea?  We could power the country with hamsters running on wheels, too.  With a power output of 0.4 Watts per hamster, you would need 68 billion hamsters to generate the U.K.’s 34 GW.  But let’s be more realistic and admit that they can only do 8-hour shifts, thus 204 billion would be required.