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Yes, far better than the 25 years before joining the EU. .

With shaped ducting, probably, but that could make self correcting vane orientation to head into the wind more difficult. I think the recognised very poor performance of small area turbines means no-one will bother. .

They don't seem impressed, despite plenty of wind on the open oceans. Wind turbines need a large frontal area to capture all the wind's energy, small blades operating area allows far too many losses and too high a ratio of turbulence. That said and ignoring efficiency, you may get some useful...

Totally agree on all points and I've been closely following The Netherlands on this since the late 1960s so am very familiar. The difference relates to the outcome of WW2. We were far less damaged and our economy and pay packets recovered quite quickly, so our ubiquitous cycling of the 1940s...

I know, but that's worse, unless you have a near three storey mast! Wind speed and strength is related to height from the ground. In your application the wind is slowed due to ground surface friction and also turned, creating turbulence whch deducts from it's strength as well as speed. And I...

Both figures are meaningless with regard to actual power, all e-bike motors deliver far more. The EN15194 technical standard requires a motor can deliver 250 watts continuous without continuously heating to failure point. It's likely this motor can only deliver continuously to 220 watts...

I imagine replacement crews are being carefully tested and checked before being flown out, too costly not to do so. .

5% of the population already are, when they are not in prison of course. These days we prefer the term criminals to hunter gatherers. .

These have fallen right out of favour where they've been tried. It seems they are very inefficient and have been completely dismissed for house top use, in favour of solar and ground source heat. .

Or putting the last phrase another way, until you told them it involved physical effort and exposure to all the worst British weather. .

It's partly because the charge into the battery in use can in some systems just as easily go directly to the motor when it's a common path. Those pesky electrons aren't labelled "Not for motor use". And even ignoring that, it can still be portrayed as like the diesel electric drive on a...

You'd have no problem with solar charging while riding since there's a perfect defence. A following wind propels you, as does a downhill gradient, showing that power derived from the environment is acceptable, inevitable and often unavoidable. The laws against working and manufacturing on the...

To leave both sides worse off, highlighting how daft this whole business is. .

If it's charging the battery in use to drive the bike, it's illegal. Even if charging a spare battery probably illegal, since there are obscure laws against manufacturing or carrying out unrelated work on the highways. Readymix concrete trucks fell foul of this when first introduced and some...

Never going to happen of course, especially with governments integrating e-cars into the future grid supplies across Europe, Suddenly car drivers are becoming very handy for a change! And of course there's always a fair number who just can't use bikes or for whom their jouneys are impractical...

As I remarked to Gavin, one has to be very close to this subject to know what is already going on. E-cars will never be allowed to create peak demand. There'll be more time/price fixing of overnight supplies. There'll be more charging at work, spreading charge times, with the chargers then...

It will happen, both by persuasion and force. The i.c. car purchase deadline has already been brought forward to match others at 2035 and whatever it's necessary to juggle to achieve that will be done. This scene has to be watched very closely to see what is going on all the time and...

This bit you've got wrong for various reasons. Firstly no more than a half of cars are used daily, and even then certainly not seven days a week. And when they are used it's almost always only for a very small fraction of an e-car battery's mileage capacity (see what I posted about mileages...

And I have to challenge you back! 86% of Britain's population live in towns and cities, so any difference from Denmark is insignificant. And just like the Danes, the Brits will become just as "green" when they scent cheaper electricity via their compulsory e-car battery. But it's not 30...