Every person in UK uses equivalent 125 lightbulbs (40W) every day

Key Points by www.withouthotair.com - David McKay (Physicist)

• Every person in UK uses the equivalent of 125 lightbulbs (40W) on all the time every day
• Coal, Gas & Oil will run out eventually
• Transport is 1/3 of energy used
• average car driven 50km a day = 140 lightbulbs
• 1 wind turbine powers 200 people = 25,000 lightbulbs (4')
• Wind farms today power 4 lightbulbs per person in Britain (4' 11")
• Sizewell B nuclear power station produces 0.4 lightbulbs power of everyone in Britain = > all wind farms in Britain today = 2000 wind turbines (4'23")
• If all of coastline were covered with Wave power machines = 4 lightbulbs for all in Britain (4' 59")
• 90% energy today is generated by fossil fuels, 10% by nuclear/wind/wave & other renewables (5'33")
• Renewables must be be increased 10 fold if we replace fossil fuels by 2050
• 125 lightbulbs per day for everyone in UK requires 300 Sizewell B power stations OR 600,000 wind turbines which would cover half of Britain (5'58")
• There are 10 nuclear power stations and 2408 wind turbines today in Britain, 11 new nuclear power stations & 4462 wind turbines have been approved (6'4")