The weasel word is "offshore". Most northern European countries have a higher share of renewables in their power mix than we do because their governments didn't insist that wind turbines be… (View Post)

The point is that there should be times, when the wind is blowing strongly, when we are using virtually no fossil fuels at all for power generation. That time isn't here yet. Instead, we are still us… (View Post)

A start would be to get away from using gas to supply base load, which we should have done ages ago by building a lot more wind generation capacity. (View Post)

I'll be charging my EV with 7.5 p/kWh nighttime electricity, fixed the the coming year, which I think is still considerably cheaper than petrol or diesel. (View Post)

I find it a little odd that the word "production" rather than "exploitation" is used when discussing the extraction of natural resources. No one is actually producing anything; ra… (View Post)