Burning the methane kicks the can down the road which is OK if someone is going to eventually pick it up. So far we've not picked many of our previous dropped cans up.

Using solar or wind you could, theoretically, add energy to make it carbon neutral. It's because it isn't a closed system as energy hits the surface of the planet every day and additional energy can additionally be delivered to the part of the system we care about from sources such as geothermal or nuclear.

GE is still at the forefront of wind turbine research and was (a couple of years ago, at least, I haven't checked 2023 figures) one of the top three manufacturers. The top three are in Europe and USA. I'm not sure how volume based on national lines exactly divides, though.

Yes, there aren't so many eclipses that it suggests to me it would be a major factor.

And don't forget all the Daleks.

More clouds? Which clouds at which altitude? There are different effects.

The researchers do understand this and have been working on it for decades. But sure, they must all be idiots and have never noticed clouds.

Environmental groups also promote decentralised generation via solar panels which could be used to run a heat pump to store hot water during daylight hours. It may be not as efficient but it has a lot of flexibility as it can also run off peak on warm days. Solar water heating limits your generation to daylight hours so your hot water storage needs to be effective enough to store it until needed, which is part of the efficiency equation. If you have a well insulated house with solar gain features daytime heating requirements might be modest with the peak hot water requirement being early morning for bathing, etc. If you can keep water hot overnight then that's fine. In winter months with heat pumps or solar water heating you might need to top it up. Improving insulation of houses should be the big drive, though

Sufficiently lagged, the tank can go in the attic, although that will probably require more piping.

They are legal for terraced houses, although planning permission may be required.

If it destroys the tag when you try to move it, it is evident that you've tried to move it because it no longer works. But you can still move it. Thus it's not tamper proof. There is very little that is truly tamper proof. Maybe we need some additional terms so they are more linguistically accurate. Yes, I'm being pedantic.

It's tamper EVIDENT.

No. The heat coming from subtropical regions doesn't vanish just because somewhere gets colder.

There's not much permafrost in Western Europe.

The saturation point for CO2 absorption bands is a long way off. Saturation won't help us