A fitting tribute to Charles Kennedy would be a revival of popular liberalism - Will HuttonBut in the same Observer issue ...
As Labour tries to resolve its past, the Tories are mapping the future - Andrew RawnsleyHaha. (One day, someone will write the story of how Hutton comprehensively f**ked up the once-worthy Industrial Society. It may be me.)
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PS: see what Rawnsley says about "this is an election to lose" ... a man after my own heart: there is NEVER an election to lose.
Please do!
ReplyDelete"The society spent more on salaries than it received in income..." Wiki.
ReplyDeleteWhy do progressives struggle with this simple part of business, so very much?
And did you see PEcthe other week? Mildly lampooning Hutton for writing the same book three times.
Hutton seems to have been around forever; he's been a dolt throughout.
ReplyDelete"Why do progressives struggle with this simple part of business"
ReplyDeleteIt boosts demand overall and the returns flow back in shortly after? Umm.
Interesting energy policy post at https://www.energyvoice.com/opinion/79465/opinion-changing-face-of-energy-politics/
ReplyDeleteBrian, I took a look at that - and it wasn't to my taste! But thanks for the link anyhow
ReplyDelete"an underestimate of how efficient offshore wind turbines are" - maybe, but as an old offshore oil&gas man (well, gas in fact) I'd say the costs and general difficulties of offshore maintenance have been (significantly) underestimated also, at least for the 'over-the-horizon' arrays
I am pretty confident they'll find that a 100-turbine wind array will be down to 98, then 95, then 90 turbines after a few years, which will need quite a big efficiency gain to overcome
say after me: no-one conducts maintenance on an unmanned offshore facility in the North Sea in winter
Offshore wind is only now tackling the horrors of getting from a boat to a turbine without killing people regularly. Can see why not to your taste, but better informed than most of the Scottish energy discussion.
ReplyDeleteRe - windfarms offshore.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I've heard the wallies have also not been keen to bring in fossil fuel tainted expertise offshore - so they've been (and still are) iterating the engineering - sometimes into toe-curl / eye roll territory.
I laughed at one piece I saw last year which afaics featured an Ikea sofa bed and a pricey bean to cup espresso machine in the nacelle cabin "in case inclement weather required an extended stay"...
I see there was recently an- gas oil spill off Barrow after collision of service craft- only gas oil. And very little made of it.
ReplyDeleteBrian, Anon: obviously a whole area to keep an eye on
ReplyDeletewelcome, Mr Tortoise: that would be one uncomfortable 'extended stay' ! - coffee or no coffee
I have spent nights out on some of the smaller permanently-manned platforms that weren't a happy experience, even in October ...