dogfound wrote:rumpo kid wrote:Early Welsh... it’s like being in conversation with Aldridge Prior..
its not these people are liars .
they have taken some pretty ropey articles and are treating them as facts.. its not unlike the Etheridge article { and many others } and the 10 million we apparently want that is on here..
some pretty mind blowing stuff in this thread that the person posting clearly believes..
5th biggest energy producer in the world...really takes very little thinking about but some hear/read it and believe and repeat it..
I have mates who have believed this sort of stuff for years and no amount of reason shifts them..
Have a read and check it out, go on...
We often, quite legitimately hear about monetising Welsh water exports, but let’s look at another example – Wales is the fifth largest exporter of electricity in the world.
In 2016 Wales generated 38.8 TWh of electricity and only consumed 16.1 TWh. This means that we exported 22.7 TWh – that’s just less than what the whole of Scotland consumes in a year.
Furthermore, Wales is well on the path to reaching its target of 70% of electricity consumption from renewable sources.
Canada is the world’s largest exporter of electricity at 64 TWh; Germany 51 TWh; Paraguay 48 TWh; France at 42TWh.Then comes Wales, placed above energy rich Norway and its $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund built on surpluses from its energy policy.The British State as a whole isn’t even in the top ten. The reality is that most other countries are net importers of electricity or produce little for export.
The fundamental problem is that our success in producing vast amount of electricity has no monetary value for our people – again, much like our water exports. We are therefore effectively just a giant electricity power plant for another country.