I recommend this article on the direct economic costs of clean energy versus fossil fuels. As with any capital intensive investment you have to pay upfront to save money down the line. The easiest wa… (View Post)

The problem with Net Zero as a branding is that it is a presented as a binary choice and an outcome rather than a trend. If you don't get to zero you have failed when actually decarbonisation th… (View Post)

I'm not saying you're wrong, but regulation would need to be removed one rule at a time. Each of those rules addresses a particular risk that would no longer be controlled after removal, wi… (View Post)

Kinder Scout is a motorway in comparison with this place and by the way also has a reservoir. It's a few square kilometres in a Highland land mass of 30 000 square kilometres, no-one goes there,… (View Post)

The pumped storage schemes I mentioned in the Highlands use existing lochs (Ness and Awe) as the lower reservoir. You need to build the upper reservoirs, which are about 1km wide, on the mountain top… (View Post)