The Naval Defence Act 1889 was implemented brilliantly - finance over a decade, maintenance, manning and recruitment all figured in. Compete with a dockyard reorganisation that actually resulted in s… (View Post)

A part of the problem is that in government, buying something from abroad often doesn’t “count” as CO2 generation. But buying/producing the same thing at home does. Changing this would upset the Fore… (View Post)

The peculiar belief that delaying part of a project makes it cheaper. Despite the proof, on hundreds of projects, of the exact inverse of that. (View Post)

Iran vs Trump negotiations caused this to bubble up, in my brain "I thought the miners' leaders were the stupidest men I ever met, until I met the mine owners." (View Post)

Running a field costs a fairly fixed amount of money. The reduction in operating costs for “just ticking over” vs full production would not be great. If you plug a well and remove the production faci… (View Post)