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Agreed, and the trading tax advantage for an outsider needs to be for a smallish operation, or HMRC sniffs out the scam these days. .

Absolutely Dave, and very often the sea conditions mean a helicopter landing of the two engineers into turbine housing. That's very hazardous and adds greatly to the maintenence costs. As I posted earlier, once all the wind generation long term costs are fully realised, the enthusiasm for this...

As I've implied, I won't argue on "What if" propositions, since anything is possible, so such arguments are never ending. This is another Brexit type situation, people are either for or against nuclear power and the two will never agree, so discussion is pointless. That is especially so since...

And they have to cut out and stop at high wind speeds to avoid self damage, so they have a rather narrow operating band. I've grown rather used to TV items on wind farms showing most or all the turbines not rotating. .

The Americans have crashed tested a plane into a reactor structure and failed to penetrate the core, but of course it would wreck the cooling system. .

I.S. don't have them though, or the planes to launch them. This is the old "What if" attack again, meaningless and without possible end. Acting on "What if" threats means no-one can ever do anything at all. .

Indeed, but the Hinkley Point one here will benefit from the new model simpler to build design. If that works out ok we should suffer fewer of the problems experienced in Finland and France. EDF wouldn't be persisting unless the potential benefits weren't going to be very rewarding, so I'm...

They've always been smart cookies! :) .

And although you probably don't like paying the bills, the production cost of French energy is the lowest in Europe, hence so much of it being bought by other countries, including the UK. And since it's almost four-fifths nuclear, it gives the lie to the claims of the antis that nuclear is far...

40 years is historic, 80 years useful life with more recent designs, and they create less waste per annum. I believe they are viable and think there's too much hysteria about nuclear generation. The world is a very big place and we probably only need to use existing nuclear generation...

I completely agree on Hinkley Point, my preference is for proven PWRs, but I realise you won't agree with that. .

This has been projected before but never happens. One assumption behind the forecast is greater appliance efficiency, but consumers find ever wider ways to use current, confounding the forecasts. What will certainly defeat the forecasts this time is the inexorable spread of electric cars...

They do indeed, and if estuarine and double barriered to give staged generation can produce continuously. Unfortunately that's not the sort of renewable infrastructure we go for here in the UK, our governments go for quick fixes like wind turbines. That's why I have no faith in our future...

But they aren't baseload. Much as some might hate it, nuclear will have to form a major part of our future generation if we are to have adequate baseload and meet our climate change obligations. But our slow responses to need probably mean we'll be panicked in to last minute builds of lots of...

There seems to be an acceptance by the industry that LCD changeovers of speed or power settings are legal, but this has never been legally tested. The law says that the rider should not have available more than a 250 watt rated motor and assist speed above 15.5 mph, and the DfT have said that...

Yes, it's only the 60kph assist that's illegal of the figures you mention. However, if it's genuinely capable of 60 kph motoring it will be far more than a 250 watt motor and is likely to be one of the direct-drive motors switchable between 250 watts and 1000 watts or more. Those are not legal. .

The Channel Islands are tax havens with extremely low rates of local tax payable. All you need is a "Mailbox", aka an accommodation address. Here's an example in Jersey, all the details in this webpage: http://jersey.expost.uk/ .

In their "The Briefing Room" series on Radio 4, there's a good program titled "What Do Remainers Feel Now?". Set partly in Lambeth it is genuinely interesting and those living outside London could find it informative. Lasting 28 minutes it's on the i-player using this link. A couple of weeks...

They have arrested a number of casual thieves with stings using this method, but I doubt the pros could be trapped so easily. With that sort of theft they've had more success with locating and arresting the fences, the second stage in the theft chain. .

Yes, received contents undeclared. Nasty things unrelated to lithium can happen enroute though: But ok once repaired with silver duct tape: