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I have no problem with wind farms. I like them. I fully get the advantages. What I object to is the imbecilic stupidity of people who keep on demanding we shut down teh backup system for windless periods. We had a whole month when our 30 Gwatt installed wind farm capacity was toddling along at...

If you want to reduce the costs of electric power and make sure that we have a supply in winter high pressure periods, support fracking. We have hundreds of years of shale gas supply under our feet.

As an example of how partial you are in presenting information, you blamed balancing costs for the rise. You omitted to mention the fact that the largest part of the rise is due to an extension of the warm homes discount. Ofgem site - notes to editors: The price cap rise is driven by an...

:D You've gone mad. Of course they won't. Labour will likely lose the next election and Mad Miliband will be gone. Even if he was still blighting the economy with his mad ideologue nonsense, and all the gas stations did disappear, we would be left devoid of power regularly every winter...

Physics limits the energy density of batteries. It is a matter of how closely attached the outer shell electrons are to the atoms of electrode materials - cathode and anode and how readily the ions can move. We can improve them through clever techniques but not by orders of magnitude. The idea...

Sars-Cov-2 was not a zoonotic transfer like the first Sars, or Mers, or Ebola, or H5N1. There is a very clear process of adaption to the new virus host when a virus jumps from one species to a new one. The early cases may be deadly, but they don't jump between the members of the new species...

If that was so, why was I able to tell you four months in advance that Harris would lose? It wasn't a guess. It was entirely predictable if you just analysed the data and looked at the candidates and what had been done by the Democratic party. I knew she would lose and I told you repeatedly...

The police can stop anyone they like and ask them questions or examine things they are carrying. They can search you if they think or say they thought you might be hiding something illegal about your person. I got stopped a few years ago - maybe five years ago when I was walking back from an...

Well I explained it to you several times, four months beforehand, but you wouldn't listen or even seriously consider the arguments. In some ways the same kind of hubris was at play in the Democrat party as we see in the major parties here. They treated the common man and woman as if they were...

Do you want to talk about the lab leak theory? I have the book he wrote with Dr Alina Chan. It is a masterpiece of reasoning. If you want to open a dialogue on that, I am ready - though I might not answer today. As for invention - yes big budgets may well be required to get something to...

Oh - you're making election predictions again. What does that remind me of - err - let me think... Oh yes - https://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/prices-of-the-electricity-we-use-to-charge.42917/page-191#post-719390 Read that post. Then read the whole page and one either side and then go...

Uk politicians have already discussed with the navy how they could patrol the Channel and turn boats back. All we need is to order them to do it. The RNLI has thrown away its reputation by becoming a taxi service for law breaking migrants. They are bandits, whose first act on landing is to...

Jonathan, you have no need to apologise to me for anything, least of all that you were busy. I fully understand that. Enjoy your life - however you spend it.

Tell the Israelis about the genocide one. Tell the Chinese and the North Koreans about the slavery one No one here is arguing about these things though. It is a diversion. Because of people like you and those who think like you, and because previous governments allowed themselves to be...

Here - a long long list of treaties abandoned by a lot of countries. The most frequent nation to withdraw from treaties it made in the past is the USA. https://chatgpt.com/share/68af198f-4cfc-8001-873d-c31e8184d20a

I'm not arguing around and around on this. I am right, and unless Labour REALLY does something on this and Starmer has already wet his underpants and failed to do what is required - You KNOW who will win, and not being one for wringing his hands, he will do what he says and he won't care one...

You have to STOP THEM COMING. The only way is to deter them. Because of the genocidal policies of the current Iraeli government, we are going to see 2 million in Gaza displaced and quite likely another three million from the West Bank. If the choice for them is Europe with soft borders and even...

I voted for BREXIT for one reason. Sovereignty. Since the 1990s, in the main, a succession of governments had waived our sacred right to govern ourselves. The British People, allow Parliament to make laws in our name and with our democratic mandate. That right was sold away gradually to...

Another Matt Ridley interview. A serious thinker, not bound up with fashionable paradigms.

I think we will see marvellous developments in our lifetimes. Really smart people are working on these things. I watched a talk the other day at Google by Matt Ridley. He's a VERY smart individual, science writer and commentator. The talk wasn't all that recent, but the questions from the...