Here is a delightful phrase which may well become a familiar idiom in English language: ‘weather dependent economy’. I encountered this on an American website—but (foolishly) I failed to note which one, so I can’t give you a precise source. The explanation offered for ‘weather dependent economy’ was that if and when much (or most) of our electricity comes from wind and solar we will be in a ‘weather dependent economy’.
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