I don't think people can grasp just how much hydro and batteries we'd need to store this excess electricity. We currently have 3GWh of pumped hydro - we'd fill that in less than 6 minu… (View Post)

No, of course not. But I'm pointing out that the kind of person who tends to be very worried about that effect also wants to expand the size of the army. That requires a society that facilitates… (View Post)

And you can get the inverse, where you have a publicly owned company that is constituted to work like an arms-length private company. That tends to work for bus services, which are vulnerable to both… (View Post)

What my client wished to express was a new settlement based on geographic shares of electricity generation would be most welcome. (View Post)

I agree - I don't think anything health related is acceptable in politics except when we might cautiously ponder whether someone is fit to make decisions (Biden, Trump etc). Having said that, th… (View Post)