Of the 532 respondents to last week’s poll, the largest proportion, 33 per cent, declined to pick an option. Of those that did pick, 30 per cent thought that encouraging domestic- or district-scale solar was the best way to help make solar power more competitive with other electricity sources. The next group, 20 per cent, thought that developiong a domestic PV panel making sector based on novel technology would be most effective, while 8 per cent thought a southern European ring main allowing the sunnier countries to export electricity to the dull north more easily would help bring solar prices down; a related scheme, to use concentrating solar power to generate in North Africa and distribute this to Europe attracted 5 per cent. Just 4 per cent supported rstoring subsidy to large-scale solar.
Promoted content: Does social media work for engineers – and how can you make it work for you?
So in addition to doing their own job, engineers are expected to do the marketing department´s work for them as well? Sorry, wait a minute, I know the...