This week, I was out filming in Suffolk for my film on Ed Miliband and Net Zero. I had considered filming the interview that was the main reason for being in the county in front of a nearby solar farm, but it was surrounded by fences and a hedge. However, I planned to get some drone footage of the solar farm and the Sizewell B nuclear power station, which is also the site of the Sizewell C development. I didn’t realise it until I got home and reviewed the video, but accidentally, Sizewell is just about visible from drone footage from the solar farm. And this in turn tells us something about how utterly bonkers renewable energy is.
Yes, you can barely see Sizewell B’s dome in the background. It’s a white dot on the horizon. If you’re reading this page on a phone, I doubt you can see it at all, unless you are able to zoom in. But that’s the point. The nuclear power station lies nine miles away from the solar farm at Former RAF Parham Airfield, near Framlingham. The two sites occupy roughly the same physical footprint but produce completely different outputs.
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