FPT: You can’t get central government subsidy for a heat pump if it can cool as well as heat (unless this changed under the most recent update to the rules?). You also can’t use aircon to compensate … (View Post)

Yeah, utopians are always like that. “Oh no, the system isn’t working 100% perfectly, what we should do is break everything & then magically the thing that will rise in it’s place will be the 100… (View Post)

I have a lot of respect for Cummings’ diagnoses of the problems the UK faces. Rather less respect (understatement of the year?) for his ability to actually implement solutions. (View Post)

We didn’t take a decade back in the 50s or 60s either. See the Stonehaven report I linked to previously for an analysis of the legal barriers to “just building things” that have built up in the UK si… (View Post)

HS2 is the UK’s infrastructure disease writ large. Something that the UK rail network would obviously benefit from & where any reasonable cost / benefit estimate would easily justify its cost was… (View Post)