Gas was 26% of GB mix in 2024 https://www.neso.energy/news/britains-electricity-explained-2024-review/

Trees have been cut in largely commercial forestry. 100s of millions of new trees have been planted over the same period. Acres of tree cover rose through the period. Tree cover is at a ~900yr high.

If KS is that concerned about the numbers in the HoL (he's not its a pretext) he could simply not nominate more than deminimus new peers and the numbers would fall rapidly enough. Some PMs have created new peers at 8/yr others 40+. For a 5yr parliament thats a range of 40-200+ new peers. Size is largely irrelevant. Bar Questions the house is rarely full.

Depends on the contracts. Providers with ROCs faced a windfall tax on their profits as they benefited from gas driven high prices. Providers with a CFD paid consumers back money when the retail price exceed their strike price.

I think you are too optimistic on cutting it that easily or cheaply or without being forced (& there is limited political will to do that in much of the world). Even today, just in the US, new orphans are being added to the millions of abandoned O&G wells leaking methane

No danger of that. For as much as parts of the Tory party were using 'security' ie gas as an attempt to create a dividing line in the last election (and failed) it was never a very serious policy proposal. Essentially they ended up in much the same decarbonised grid and were arguing over the last single digit %s of the mix. As is GB is likely to see its first brief periods of fossil free running from next year.

Indeed the 'gain' may be illusory https://rockymntstage.wpengine.com/calculating-parity-between-gas-and-coal-life-cycle-emissions/

Energy systems inc storage like this use MWh. In this case its 200MW / 2,600MWh

They were never open. The crisis ballooned because the PRC lied and concealed and only opened up when they couldn't maintain their own fiction. Now they are back to the old ways again.

There's a long queue of people with torches and pitchforks you'll have to get behind....

Its legal most places. Not a track only car at all you have the wrong end of the stick. For those US states being difficult you might have to option for a screen or go down the show and display route/

That there is ambiguity between: The dogs basket was full of the cats toys. Change the apostrophe location and the numbers of dogs or cats change.

I know you're having a joke but the GMC was founded in 1858 so long long before the jonny come lately Genera Motors Corporation

Either because you've had a charmed life to be in a place where the meetings have a purpose and fulfil it or you're proving the old "If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation."

Prof Hall just stating some things Parkinson's law pretty much covered many decades ago.