Quote Originally Posted by KerrAvon View Post
It certainly isn’t an option. The size and cost of the batteries that would be required is prohibitive. The UK government is putting money into battery technology research, but it is impossible to get around the basic physics of the issue.

You can’t use solar power to charge anything up while you are sleeping – unless you are nocturnal. That is the real issue with solar – it is at its most abundant on sunny summer days – exactly when demand for electricity is at its lowest. You could use wind overnight – if it’s windy. You may not be getting much sleeping done if you have the localised wind turbines that you mentioned in post 15, however – an issue with wind turbines is the noise that they can create.
Of course it's an option, as i've stated technology is coming on leaps and bounds, and who mentioned using solar while sleeping, i stated you could charge the car battery(which you've already depleted running it for the house in the evening) using national grid power, off peak, while sleeping....

As for "sitting on an abundant source of energy" yeh, we are, they call it coal, millions of tons of it are still under our feet, but you know what, i for one want us to stop burning fossil fuels, we're killing the planet, we need to use cleaner methods of power generation, and every little bit helps, even if it is a bit cloudy and still some days, and the turbine might by a bit noisy, time for you to get in the modern world kerr.