How can you wreck Starmers big British Energy that produces no energy. The wind power bunch must be raking it in, we pay OTT for the so called Free energy, OK we know it has costs, but we even pay them to produce none.
@pete not sure he would bring the price down other than perhaps initially if he gets a toe hold. Prepared to be proved wrong altho profit will still be the main perogative. Common sense and our utility suppliers have not come into contact for years. Somewhat like our nearby Nuclear station......... well over budget, well over completion time and altho they claim they will ( at some point ) be able to provide power to most homes in the SW, the kwh price was set by the govt 10 or 11 years ago - a lot has changed since then. The Wind Farm saga is odd - help with creating, oops sorry don't need your wind at the mo but here is some dosh anyway.
Well ... if Elon offers really low prices to get a large market share (as @Philippa says), resulting in other providers going bust, and then Elon's business fails or he loses interest (he has quite a short attention span), then this leaves behind a damaged market with less choice and consumers picking up the tab for the failures. Or ... it might all go swimmingly and he will become a national hero!
Well we need proper competition and someone needs to break the the gas tie, if renewables are so fantastic why is the price still tied to gas prices for any other reason than profiteering. Why dont people want those fantastic heat pumps, mostly because electricity is too expensive mister Milliband and apparently they dont work very well but we wont worry about that. cheaper electricity is the governments promise, when? God knows.
If Musk did come into the UK energy market he could offer really low prices until his competitors went bust or left the market. He would then be in a monopoly situation and could do what he wants with prices.
Here's some interesting news about a prime supporter of draconion anti abortion laws in Texas despite having paid for several for his long term mistress. Nice chap. He's been caught. There are also quite a few prominent Trump supporters going on trial for paedophilia and other sexual offences but that's another story.
Some history: Biden administration banned the sale of certain microchips from export to China, state security issues; so NVIDIA and AMD developed some less high tech chips that would duck under this ban. Last January the current US administration banned these simplified chips from export to China, state security issues. Now the current US administration has agreed these chips can be exported to China as AMD and NVIDIA have agreed to pay 15% of the revenue from the sale of these chips to China to the US administration. At the same time the INTEL boss gets a right shellacing from Trump and a number of sycophantic Republican politicians over links with China. Me being warped and cynical thinks who didn't agree to pay up. Note similarity to Putin's business methods pay the fine, tariff, "compensation" or "insurance" or go to prison, lose your company, your passport etc. So far there is no comment on where this money would go, or how it would be used. Trump Gaza Resort?
I guess the political tyrants of the world see Putin's playbook works, in that he is massively wealthy AND still in power, so they think "What's not to like?". It has probably always happened on some level, but now it is just blatant.
I found this interesting. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/lithium-deficiency-and-alzheimer-s-disease
Isn't that partly what some of those flybynight energy companies did a while back, then when the proverbial hit the fan and gas prices rose dramatically they all went bust leaving the bigger more sensible companies and customers to bail out those that had jumped on the bandwagon. I thought we had an energy regulator, but no government regulators seem worthy of the job.
I have just learnt @Tidemark , it's "Coke it". I have given up with place names to the extent I was very shy to call estate agents when house hunting because the street and place names are definitely created just to make fun of outsiders. Take Newgate street in Newcastle for example, there was an actual gate and many restaurants etc are called New Gate and pronounced as you would think, but the street itself is pronounced very much like "Nugget" as in chicken nuggets. The only one I got right is Pelaw, which I jokingly pronounced "pee low", which happens to be correct
Visitors to Chatsworth house often look at the tiny village that the duke of Devonshire got moved several hundred yards away, out of sight of his ducal windows. You would think that he could have had Chatsworth built out of sight of the village, but that was too much to hope for. He got the little cottages rebuilt in a sort of imsy-mimsy style that wouldn’t offend his guests. The village is called Edensor. Most visitors say they have been to Eden-sore for a coffee. Locals don’t buy their coffee there as it is Chatsworth style priced. But they might have a walk around Enza on a nice day.
Chatsworth wasn't the only place to have a village moves so the hoi-poloi wouldn't spoil the view. I can't remember any of the other places apart from Milton Abbas, but there were a number of them over the centuries.
Sorry, this story goes on a bit. Two childminders take 2 under 5s and two toddlers to the park. This park has a large lake in it. Childminders settle down for a picnic and don’t notice a four year old boy wander off, despite him wearing a high viz tabard. At some point a lady in the park sees the boy crying and he tells her he’s lost. The tabard he is wearing has the name and number of the childminder on it. Over a period of time this lady calls the number 3 times and gets no reply. The lady proceeds to walk the boy around the park looking for the childminder. Over half an hour passes since she found the little boy, and they then find the childminder and her friend, apparently blissfully unaware that he had been missing. When the childminder sees the boy she shouts at him that she had told him to sit on the blanket and stay there. Obviously it was therefore his fault that he’d got lost. The lady questioned the childminder as to when she last saw the boy and she claimed it had just been a couple of minutes. No explanation as to why she was sat chatting to her friend and not frantically searching for the missing child. She couldn’t explain either how, if he’d only been gone a couple of minutes, how the woman had called her 3 times and had been with the boy for over 30 minutes. The boy was able to tell the lady his full name and his mother’s name. The lady found his mother on Facebook as they have an uncommon surname and told her the full story. When the mother went to collect her son she asked if everything had been OK. The childminder said the boy had wandered off but they found him in a couple of minutes. What the childminder didn’t know was that the woman who found him had called Social Services (or whatever the department is) to advise them of the situation. His mother has done likewise. That 4 year old boy is my great nephew, and now he’s scared to go to the local play area, no more than a couple of hundred yards from his house, in case he gets lost again. A lovely, outgoing little boy who is likely to take quite a bit of time to get over the experience. Hopefully the childminder will be banned from working with young children.
