and do as China does: coal fired power plants!

There are worse and better things in China, such as the Three Gorges Dam, which at 22,500 megawatts is the largest of any single power plant in the world despite being the environmental / human catastrophe it has caused. That aid, I'm still convinced Hydro is the best option, it just has to be approached in a less centralised fashion. Fir example, there are hundreds of dams in the UK not generating any power - all that focussed 100% renewable energy going to waste along with all our sunshine and badly insulated homes.

For this idiocy, what is left of our countryside is being ruined by hideous wind farms.