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Don't have a source but I'm pretty sure I remember the last government had to implement various incentives for the last big round to go ahead. Things like reducing the provisions that need to be made to clean up after the rigs are done, tax breaks. I'm not sure what the current situation is but while I don't have huge problems with new licences if they are purely at the companies risk I would have problem with any sort of subsidy direct or indirect. Any public funds put into energy independence should go on renewables as that is the most cost effective option at this point.

Im not sure how a cable tray helps you run additional cables later. The ties for the cables and all the perferations will present more snag challenges for pulling cables behind plasterboard than bare trunking or similar. I too want to be able to add additional cables later (especially low voltage/data/hdmi/etc) and am curious what other people think is the best way to go but personally don't think cable trays would help. My best guess at the minute for how to do this is to form two parallel cable paths horizontally along the wall behind the sockets with the metal back boxes mounted in front. Depth is a bit of an issue though. 50mm cavity + plasterboard on top is ok. Less seems to get tricky. Main reason for me to want this ability if I get a chance to build I want to get the basics in and done and then come back and be able to fit 'smart' stuff in a suitable way without ripping up the walls. I don't really want to have to plan where every device cable goes (and what type is needed) before being able to crack on with the rest of the property.

Definitely the way to go if you want to control an outlet from a light switch hard wired. But with todays 'smart' products it seems a somewhat unnecessary complication. Even if you don't want smart stuff anywhere else, wiring it into free standing lamps and a switch on the wall to control them gives you a lot more flexibility. ie, you can move lamps around, add extras, etc, no need to predetermine locations or run special cables. It doesn't even have to be that smart if you just want on/off. Quinetic switches are an option there https://www.quinetic.co.uk/

Seen US youtubers use it a lot over the last few years. Seems like a good option for some use cases but only if what your doing is suitable for using the premixed bags.

Seen these before. Thought at the time they are the wrong approach plus they add something like £20-30 per panel to the cost which seems high. Other countries mandate their inverters do Arc Fault detection on their inverters. Not sure we have caught up but suspect arc fault detection is availalbe in some inverters at least. If not, you can get (though difficult to find) separate devices that do it. One per string rather than one per connection (though not sure how the costs work out). Arc fault detection not going to be quite as good as the boxes but if it comes with the inverter then it's basically free.

Or cap the tray with 3mm steel?

Worth adding: My ideas were related to EVs and there the rules get harder. Normal combustion engine off an existing certified vehicle, pretty easy.

Nope not at all. Just have too many things running around my head and find sometimes the easiest way to stop thinking about an idea is to spend a day or two deeply researching it.

How long have you been in this situation?

Too much looking down at smartphones (It's a joke but you have my sympathies, not a good situation to be in).

I looked fairly recently and it seemed easy enough. I'm guessing the articles you looked at were from a time when regs for everyone were getting stricter and the Mondeo was made under older regs. (Maybe the big co's had more time to adapt).

Just spend 5 years of subs money on a mac to run the LLM on and hope that in 2 years time it's still good enough to run the current models Reason I asked is you said the new setup seemed to be performing better and everything I've seen suggests that local models are generally a little worse at chat type stuff and quite a bit worse for agentic workflows (still much better than the leading models from 9 months ago). I guess with the $20 gpt sub you can't access the better OpenAI models?

Which means? ChatGPT? Free, Plus, Pro? Codex? Claude?

What was your previous setup?

Oh.... You are still working that way? I thought that was considered very inefficient these days. Better to have it help you write a spec, including testing regime, code-quality metrics, design philosphy and then ask it to go build (and spawn agents/tools to help). Not that I'm doing any of this. Just watching people like Theo explain it: https://www.youtube.com/@t3dotgg/videos Had this in my 'to watch' list for a while: