SteamyTea

I am close by today, but don't fancy the 7 hour drive back in the dark.

Do you mean the nacelles? If my 35 year ago experience in composites is anything to go by, then it could be, in part, material prices. I had a run in with ICI about chemical prices becuase I could get the components made in India, then delivered to any European site, cheaper than I could buy the materials. The Indians were using the exact same materials, made in the same plant at Teeside. Out of spite, and because EU free trade started, I changed to a German made polymer.

I don't buy any of the biscuits.

Happened once, along with Christmas. Don't beat about the bush, say what you really feel. (I live in a Duchy)

No shit Sherlock.

I think the public should be smart enough to realise that nothing happens quickly. I think the real frustration is the changes in policies. It makes it impossible for any infrastructure planning. This may be a tactic that the denationalised companies use, do nothing until there is a crisis, then steamroller the government into getting their (the companies) way.

The legislation needs time to filter though the system. I was at a Transition Town meeting about 20 years ago, the MP at the time was Matthew Taylor, he did a fascinating, non political, monologue about why, when the government says something, you never see any action on the ground. It gets watered down, corrupted and sometimes ignored at every level. I don't think he was cut out for politics.

Until recently, England was not allowed to have windturbines built. Not the developers, the DNO/Energy companies, locals or users fault, it was legislation. (I have many turbines down here from the pre legislation days, no one mentions them these days)

Why. Surely a nation what to export to earn an income. There is no difference between export electricity and whiskey, except whiskey kills more people, and smells worse than the resins used to make turbine blades. People bang on about how we do not have a manufacturing industry, why is Scotland not making wind turbines. There would be a good local market, many good engineers, experience in the marine environment, energy experts, plenty of old industrial sites ripe for redevelopment and a huge nearby market. I put this same suggestion forward down here, all I get is blank looks.

What I wish would happen is that they stopped drizzling these reports (or how they are reported) with weasel words. Terms like 'shovel ready' are a (expletive deleted)ing nonsense. Our electrical infrastructure needs a certain amount of redesign and renewal, based on need, not poncy reports to politicians. A quick search shows that by 2035, between £28 and £35bn need to be spent on the main infrastructure. I wonder how much of that is spent on getting planning permission, I cannot seem to find a number for it.

And charged too much

does he go to AA meetings, and I am not on about the Automobile Association.

"Building a house is mostly just stacking expensive rectangles while pretending you understand the difference between a joist, a stud, and pure chaos."

I heard that his misses liked being the filling in his sandwich.

What. Take all the fun away.