The LlewBlog - Bloggage

The first thing I want to say is, ‘Level playing field my ass.’
The UK government recently passed legislation on two related topics, both of them discreetly late at night so as not to cause too much upset.
They made the further development of onshore wind much harder. Onshore wind is now internationally acknowledged as being the cheapest method to produce electricity....

The popularity of the re-runs of Scrapheap Challenge on the Quest and Dave Channels has been very pleasant to experience.
At a rough guess I’d say I get 20 tweets a day mentioning the series, how much people love it and the perennial question ‘Why don’t you bring it back?’...

Earlier this year I saw an all in one inverter and domestic battery unit on display at the Bosch stand at CES.
2 years ago I stayed with my friend Simon Hackett in Adelaide, Australia and saw his line up of domestic batteries in sturdy cabinets outside his home. Simon's house is covered in solar panels, he makes more electricity than he can use and he runs three...

I’ve had an interesting couple of discussions recently, one via Twitter with a miner’s son from Yorkshire and one with an actual, bona fide hedge fund manager at my kitchen table in Gloucestershire.
Two people, you would imagine, from very opposite ends of a socio-economic spectrum, and yet on one topic they were in total agreement....