Net zero carbon dioxide emissions targets are just the latest wheeze to grip our political betters, driven by climate alarmists and rent seekers ready to profit from the wind and solar subsidy scam.
The idea that modern economies can function without the energy generated by fossil-fuels (whether consumed by motorcars or in power generation) is up there with living on Mars and perpetual motion machines.
And yet, there are plenty paying lip service to a concept that has the engineers who built the systems upon which we rely, thoroughly flummoxed. One of them, Mike Travers CEng, MIMechE, FIET spent twenty years in the Royal Engineers and in the 1960s ran a Geodetic Satellite Tracking Station. In the 1970s he worked in the hydroelectric sector on the Columbia and Snake River systems in the USA. He was also a member of the IET Wiring Regulations Committee. In the 1980s he was in…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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