i recon folk with vote with how much the leccy bill is and can i see a GP/consultant?etc
the culture war thing fails when the "cultured" fail to provide basic things folk expect on multiple spreadsheets,
lies fail when reality says hello at a personal level, be that poverty then and poverty now or a polluted beck in the nice village
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It's basically totally open corruption, but not a surprise as open corruption has been the standard for years now.
Both onshore and offshore wind being blocked by people with open links to fossil fuel companies.
It seems odd that the lower cost methods like solar are paid the same amount as more costly things like offshore wind. From what I have read (only in the papers), solar is a very nice profitable business at the moment. It does seem stupid not to encourage all forms of renewable energy where possible as we need to get away from gas and oil electricity generation.
They talk of geothermal as something new; apart from the pre-Roman use of a hot spring at Bath, there has been at least one thermal generation project going for over 50 years.
It's basically totally open corruption, but not a surprise as open corruption has been the standard for years now.
Both onshore and offshore wind being blocked by people with open links to fossil fuel companies.
yep, same as various other places and from various other vested interests re taxation, procurement, permissions, bragging schemes that only profit donors and cronies, privatizations etc.
not always direct cash, the revolving doors from gov to boardrooms and lobbies is also a large corrupting factor.
then there is the conflict of interests stuff with investment players and insider dealing by combining playing the markets with political decisions, leave night and truss/kwartang spring to mind
then there are the personally corrupt ones who are open to leverage regarding their affairs and are blatantly using their position to protect/develop their interests
Reading up on it a while ago when this came up, hydrogen may be the way forward, but at present it isn't main stream. Of course we could go back to charcoal, but it needs an awful lot of charcoal.
Still the best steel traditionally was made with charcoal, but quantity and cost are the main challenges there. I know a blacksmith who makes Damascus steel blades using charcoal. Most smiths prefer coke, but he likes charcoal better. We have given him some for his travelling forge a a present when we have been at the same show. Sadly he has gone to Canada so wish him and his family well out there.
Until coke became the norm, the iron industry was centred on the Weald of Kent and Sussex. The woodland was used to make the charcoal and there are still what are known as 'hammer ponds' down some of the valleys where the water was stored to run the bellows and hammers.
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