[petr_tik]

> This sounds like brexiteer project.

Given that the UK has left the EU, couldn't you call every trade deal or cultural exchange with a non-EU country a Brexit project?

Even if it is, what is wrong with that? The people of Britain voted for Brexit and now need their elected officials to deliver, which motivates projects like these

Edit: to clarify, i live in London and i didn't vote for Brexit. Regardless of the outcome, I consider it a national security issue and a productivity boost to have cheap energy collected from a diverse set of sources from solar plants abroad to domestic nuclear energy plants and off-shore wind turbines.

If you live in Britain, would you really prefer Britain stop investing in projects like these, just because there was an election result you disagreed with?

[matthewdgreen]

I'm just curious if a direct interconnect from Morocco->UK is the best solution from an engineering perspective, or if a Morocco->EU->UK interconnect would work better without the politics.

[tuatoru]

The latter would work better in terms of energy losses, but would require major overcapacity in the interconnectors between Spain and France (from Spain's and France's point of view). They'd drag their feet.

We are where we are. Politics is a thing.

If it pushes along the transition from fossil fuels to renewables, I don't care if it's "inefficient". Show me a major company that hasn't wasted money or done something in a way that is technically less than optimal.

[blibble]

> The people of Britain voted for Brexit and now need their elected officials to deliver

the desired position of many is that the UK should crawl off into a corner and almost die, then will have to come crawling back to the EU to show that is indispensable

projects like this work counter to that narrative

[oliwarner]

Brexiteer, not Brexit.

The latter being a dictionary definition of a bad idea, the first being the buffoons who lied about it, flying kites, tossing dead cats around to manipulate the conversation and ultimately shove it through, half cocked.

This looks like yet another kite to be sold with: "Look what we can do now we're out of that wretched EU".

Possibly a nice idea, aggressively detached from reality.