I agree on solar. It keeps getting cheaper, as do the batteries. The chap I know, whose moved to solar farming, says that the revelation in his life is the relaxation of enjoying sleeping in to 7am a… (View Post)

Coal wasn't profitable. Unless you banned imports. It was getting more and more expensive. Coal died because coal fired ships disappeared. Welsh Best was great for that - more expensive, but mor… (View Post)

The reason that they have banned e-bike batteries and not laptops, is volume of material. Same on airlines. A laptop battery letting go* is a small danger. An e-bike battery can threaten a whole buil… (View Post)

It's both affordability *and* availability. Same population as France and 8 million fewer properties. A big problem in construction is the cost of labour - which is largely a function of the... … (View Post)

Draper & McBride nearly broke the Labour Party - that's how crazy toxic they were. (View Post)