Point is, there isn't a single right answer, because everything has certain downsides. Solar plus batteries is cheap, but you need an awful lot of it in winter. (Not quite it doesn't work, … (View Post)

Also, you have to be pretty close to the action to be aware of how cheap solar and wind have got, and how quickly. Now, we're just left with the issues that the cost of renewables is mostly capi… (View Post)

Which has its own downsides- on yer bike becomes a lot harder, for a start. It highlights the very human hypocrisy at the heart of somewhereism; it sucks when Yourtown changes around you, and it suck… (View Post)

@ydoethur says much the same, albeit for different reasons. (View Post)

Clearly they weren't that posh. Proper posh is happy to swear like a trooper. It's the neurotic middle classes who worry about it. (View Post)