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Oh dear. I don't know if he intended it, but that only refers to the old 1983 200 watt, 15 mph law with weight limits, not its update to 250 watts, 15.5 mph and removal of all weight limits. So very few will comply anyway, most being 250 watt rated. .

Only the word Carb... in that square is active. I clicked on that and got a great full screen photo loaded. .

Ouch, very painful, sorry to learn this Gaz, I hope the healing progresses well and rapidly. Don't fret about the bike, plenty of time later to deal with that, you can just be a pedestrian for a while. .

Leaving the EU is just continuing our long term trend to becoming a third world nation with first world weapons and pretensions. With food banks and a failing NHS, our problem will be finding enough healthy, well nourished people to man the weapons. .

Between late June and September 1976, the whole of Britain was like that with a huge stationary high pressure over us. Any time that happens again, dependance on wind will spell disaster for months. .

We are an island with all land close enough to the sea, the furthest being 70 miles, so don't have that problem. All our nuclear stations present and future are coastal. .

You are too trusting Danidl. We have a number of these onshore wind farms in hopelessly unsuitable locations and a later report has harshly criticised the fact that they sometimes only manage 8% time of any output. Obviously there were no sound viability assessments before these were placed...

You've misread my answer, please look again below and you'll see it had answers to two points raised by you. In the second I was referring to sea current turbines only ever making a miniscule contribution, comparing those to wave power, and I stand by that. "I was answering a wind energy post...

It actually made sense in its origin. The principle that taxation would be by VAT was a fundamental of the early EU, and to get membership meant agreeing to that. So the choice was ours. The lowest limit of 5% rule was to prevent any member once in undermining the principle by getting rid of...

Not possible until March 2019 when we are due to leave the EU. Under EU mandatory rules, VAT once applied to an item cannot be reduced below 5%. That's why we are stuck with 5% VAT on our electricity bills, the government that wanted to remove it altogether couldn't. .

I was answering a wind energy post. I'm aware of the sea current turbines, but they will only ever make a miniscule contribution to needs, a bit like wave power. .

Fact remains as I stated, the French nuclear power is the cheapest in Europe, and why they supply so much to so many others. They succeed with economic nuclear, and on a large scale so do others around the world, South Korea for example. Wind has a place as I've already posted, but our...

Already done, and France is one of the two world leaders in the nuclear pile method with their Phoenix and Super Phoenix reactors. Dearer than PWR at present, but the mothballed but successful Super Phoenix design will use wastes from stockpiles as the supplies of cheap uranium run low. And...

So I'll look forward to when we outcompete France's cheap nuclear surplus by exporting a huge surplus of power from our wind. :D I don't think so. .

Not so, France is one of the three major reprocessors and can deal with their own fuel waste. Anyway, even if they did send it to us we wouldn't reprocess it free, so they wouldn't escape the cost, just add to it with our profit margin. .

Off subject. In the sea turbine field context that I was answering the figures were and remain nonsense. .

So why are you doing the same below? France has been hugely successful with nuclear power at consistently low costs. .

More wind lobby distortion! The large ones we are speaking of generally start being a little useful at around 8 mph wind speed, a multiple of the nonsense figures I was commenting on. .

Some cut in at 1.25 mph wind speed? Others cut in at 2 to 2.5 mph? These are nonsense figures which even the BWEA wouldn't support. .

A bit like Australia's refusal to have anything to do with nuclear in any form, even to the extent of banning a visit by an American nuclear powered carrier. All while earning huge sums from the export of mined and processed uranium for nuclear use. .