This is why @TheGreenParty has been arguing for Universal Credit to be increased by £40 per week

RT to tell Sunak to #DoTheMaths
RT @jrf_uk: 🧮 We've done our #maths & it doesn't add up!

The current basic rate of #UniversalCredit falls £35 *per week* short of the actual cost of essentials like food, utilities & vital household goods

👉Join us in calling on the Govt to guarantee #OurEssentials https://t.co/W96obGGWaB

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GreenPartyMolly/status/1648222635799576578

RT @CarolineLucas
Some "statistics" which Rishi Sunak might like to take a look at, thanks to his Govt's #Brexit shambles:

- Productivity down 4%
- Trade down 15%
- Food prices up 6%
- Tax revenue down by £40 billion

#DoTheMaths

RT @CarolineLucas@twitter.com

Some "statistics" which Rishi Sunak might like to take a look at, thanks to his Govt's #Brexit shambles:

- Productivity down 4%
- Trade down 15%
- Food prices up 6%
- Tax revenue down by £40 billion

#DoTheMaths

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CarolineLucas/status/1610650822999773184

RT @CarolineLucas@twitter.com

Some "statistics" which Rishi Sunak might like to take a look at, thanks to his Govt's #Brexit shambles:

- Productivity down 4%
- Trade down 15%
- Food prices up 6%
- Tax revenue down by £40 billion

#DoTheMaths

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CarolineLucas/status/1610650822999773184

Some "statistics" which Rishi Sunak might like to take a look at, thanks to his Govt's #Brexit shambles:

- Productivity down 4%
- Trade down 15%
- Food prices up 6%
- Tax revenue down by £40 billion

#DoTheMaths

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1610650822999773184

RT @CarolineLucas@twitter.com

Some "statistics" which Rishi Sunak might like to take a look at, thanks to his Govt's #Brexit shambles:

- Productivity down 4%
- Trade down 15%
- Food prices up 6%
- Tax revenue down by £40 billion

#DoTheMaths

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CarolineLucas/status/1610650822999773184

RT @CarolineLucas@twitter.com

Some "statistics" which Rishi Sunak might like to take a look at, thanks to his Govt's #Brexit shambles:

- Productivity down 4%
- Trade down 15%
- Food prices up 6%
- Tax revenue down by £40 billion

#DoTheMaths

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CarolineLucas/status/1610650822999773184

Solar Power: Abundant or not?

So, yes, "as much raw incident sunlight falls on the Earth in 1 hour as all of humanity uses in 1 year."

Sounds like a lot. About a 7,000-times surplus.

But when you start doing the maths, it turns out that 1) the amount of usable sunlight is far, far lower (about 100 -- 200x present human energy usage) and 2) baked-in assumptions of human energy consumption growth based just on population growth and a modest levelling-up for the global poor chews up about 1/5 of that surplus.

More depressing truth/reality here:

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/f9899b600300013a2eb4002590d8e506

And no, the message isn't that renewables aren't realistic. It's that our expectations aren't.

#energy #solar #solarPower #DoTheMaths #population #affluence #renewables #limits #LimitsToGrowth