Robert Boswall

1. Wind and solar both keep me up at night, but for opposite reasons. Solar works and is winning the global race, Britain simply sits too far north to benefit. Britain is betting on wind instead, yet wind lacks the very traits that makes solar work.

The abundance divide is not left vs right, but revealed by answers to questions like: Do we produce (and consume) too much? Are there too many people in the world? Can anyone be better off without someone losing? (Do free lunches exist) Should we have strawberries in winter?

1/ "The grid is a miracle and we should treat it that way; we have to treat it at least fragile and as careful and as risk averse as making an airplane that must not breakdown."

really love these photographs of Sellafield nuclear site, by Barry Lewis

6a. My specific concern is that Britain entrenches high electricity prices by betting on wind, due to the tailwinds of ‘renewables’ and taking too long to realise that wind isn’t solar: the costs aren’t coming down, that system integration of wind is much more expensive.