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Some of them have, but it's a wish, having the status of hoping something will turn up. .

According to calculations from that report, our UK sales in 2016 were well over 83,000, a huge leap from the 30,000 in very recent years and under 20,000 previously. .

Forget wave which is a waste of money, it's just wind energy with much of the power removed, and all methods of harvesting are very inefficient. .

We've got that here, since that is pan EU legislation. You're speaking of the L1e-A class, formerly known as the Low Powered Moped class. Whether registration, helmets etc apply are national decisions, and unfortunately in the legalistic UK they do. .

That just leaves the missing element to make it happen, a far sighted government. So in the UK there's not a cat in hells chance. Some of it has already happened in other countries, particularly in the EU, which we are deserting. .

We area long way from this situation, oil has been getting cheaper and more plentiful despite all the prophesies of the opposite. I think the wind industry has had no shortage of these skills, invariable grossly misrepresenting the true cost comparisons with other sources of energy. The...

That's the series 2 Panasonic unit with the chain off the drive sprocket. .

With our governments we'll be damned rather than dammed. .

There's plenty, The Wash and the Thames Estuary for example, and those would be power where it's needed, not hundreds of miles away in Scotland or at sea. .

Quite probably, but there's a joke that twice as many claim to been there as actually were. I was around at the time too, but I've only been afloat in a few of the Dunkirk boats after the event. .

Indeed, ideally two barriers in the Bristol Channel could generate 24 hours a day by phasing releases. It would be immensely costly to enclose enough of it, but I'd rather have seen all the huge wind expenditure used on that instead. .

No disagreement with that, it's only the true costs that I've illustrated that change the economics. Government is being willfully dishonest since they are so dependant on their wind strategy. One day we'll have to foot the true bill. After all, wind power is a method that has to have up to...

There have been a few two-wheel rowing action handcycles, so Alfine 8 in the front wheel and motor in the rear is possible, and novel. .

But only initially when new. The earlier ones are already proving very expensive due to gearbox repair and renewal costs and the tech in the new ones is no different. And the costs of carrying out that work are very high. All too frequently in our sea conditions it has to be carried out by...

Our government's actions are all very silly Tillson. Among their pollution saving measures is the removal of the speed calming bumps and mini-roundabouts that they've been installing for years. That's yet another example of policy reversal, just like their advice on diesel. .

That much is true, but it's very biased since it takes the low early years cost of wind and compares them with the Hinckley future prices which are initially high due to the new technology, and that the prices are a political fix to get it built. It doesn't take into account that we are also...

Not really true, wind power is proving more expensive than thought at first, and the turbine positions are also problematic. Scotland and Wales are not where the current is needed and occasion up to 7% current loss in transmission to where it is needed. There's also a limit to how many...

Exactly, calling hybrids electric cars is a sham, especially those that don't plug in to charge. Even on the plug-in ones are scarcely e-cars. The much TV advertised Mitsubishi plug-in hybrids for example cover around 28 miles on their fully charged battery, when it's new. Ok for the...

Exactly Tillson. On present plans we are only going to be able to match our current electricity consumption with new and replacement generation in that time, and even that is far from certain. Currently the government is desperately trying to get us to bail them out on generating shortfall...

Or just "Sudden death", which doctors in France are permitted to enter on death certificates. Here in the UK doctors have to be specific. .