That's rather pessimistic. Just because an environment is harsh we don't give up, we overcome the problems.

You wouldn't need anything like a 1TWh. All you need is enough to smooth output of an intermittent source a bit and give you s little longer to ramp up other energy sources. On Japan a 250MW wind farm gets a 40MWh battery for smoothing.

iOS makes you work harder than necessary to get things done. For example, there is no app tray. All apps just get dumped on the home screen after installation and you have to organise them yourself. There isn't even an alphabetical list unless you spend time making it yourself.

It seems really odd given how they try to make other stuff low effort. Finding apps is pretty fundamental.

Swipe keyboards take a little getting used to but it's worth spending a few days forcing yourself to use one because in the end they are so much faster. The stock Android keyboard actually has a really good implementation.

The Google Japanese keyboard is excellent too. Like the English keyboard it mines the interwebs for data, so knows a lot of acronyms and slang that I had to teach other keyboards.

Tesla give you a long warranty and tested their battery pack up to 750,000 miles. It seems pretty reliable. Worrying about battery replacement costs is like worrying about engine replacement costs in an ICE car. At worst used ones are already available for a few thousand, similar to a high end engine.

EBay filters the HTML you can use in a listing. The idea is to prevent people doing exactly this, or say using JavaScript to change the description from "working" to "spares and repairs" after it finishes. The hack was finding a way to get around the filter and put this code on the page.

Get a Chromebook. Gmail integration, virus proof, cheap and low maintenance.

You are forgetting about the international rules governing these things. The WTO and IMF have both regulated currency issues when counties split before. The general principal is that if both countries have a stake they have to share fairly, or one can choose to walk away at its own expense.

The BoE belongs to Scotland too. If England wants it then it may be possible to negotiate that, but it would have to take on the debts owed as well. The rest of the UK can't just grab something that is jointly owned with Scotland.

The Poll Tax? That alone shows just how little the Tory party thinks of Scotland.

I'm not saying that there were not problems, but there was more than one solution. She decided to smash it all. Look at Germany now. Strong manufacturing and industrial base. Recovered from the financial crisis a lot faster than we did, with real jobs and real wage rises. The average UK citizen is still poorer than they were in 2008.

Also, some things don't have to be profitable. The NHS, basic utility services etc.

There is plenty of room, especially in the north. The problem is no-one wants to live there, and houses in the south cost too much. Immigration might make it a little worse but the basic problem has nothing to do with it.

Do you seriously think that England will erect a fence all along the border and place immigration checkpoints along it? Do you really think that the Spanish will lock themselves out of Scottish fishing waters by blocking their EU membership? And then the rest of the UK will just watch as Russian soldiers arrive on their doorstep?

This is the kind of fantasy people talk about when they mention scaremongering. It's not even remotely based on reality.

Imagine how the Scottish feel having to accept crippling austerity to prop up reckless English banks. Yes, obviously RBS is Scottish, but it's losses were all made in London under weak UK regulation from the Thatcher era.

Outside investors are always looking for new oil fields and that won't stop after independence. It may be small fry but it's still billions of pounds.

The currency union can't be blocked. Even if it were they would not be reneging, they would simply no longer own that debt. It's the BoE's debt, and if they no longer used the BoE why would they continue giving it money? The debt goes with the currency, it only exists to maintain the value of the currency.

Thatcher destroyed manufacturing and industry in the whole of the UK. The north of England and Wales were trashed just as badly. She did that to Scotland, as well as the Poll Tax which caused riots. All the stuff she privatised has gone to shit - energy companies, the railways, British Telecom... Now they see Cameron privatising Royal Mail and the NHS too.

Her policies failed utterly and lead to the global financial crash a few years back. In the end she was such a liability her own party had to get rid of her. Scotland would do well to get away from her legacy.