I never wrote that we should build our own solar pannels and turbines and what not. We can buy them, benefit from these economies of scale that you mention, but we should absolutely own them and not rent them to become somebody else cash cow. Otherwise we will keep on digging our grave and have the country stripped of all of its assets.

You can wrap this up in as much technical verbiage as you want. In a non elastic market (water distribution, electricity, etc.) you can only create monopolies or oligopolies, competition cannot play its role, and seeking profitability can only happen at the expense of the customer. Saying that "a national program to build turbines just means losing access to global economies of scale" is true if you are a micronation, hovever even assuming that you are right, it would not be a huge problem: the inefficiencies would be contained in the British economy. Sure, maybe we would have too many civil servants running it, or whatever, but that means paying more money to british people, not bleeding subsidies to foreigh fat cats.

No really in the case of the UK, we still depend on gas most days to fill the gaps, and in the rare occurences where we have a surplus, our european neighbours are more than happy to buy our excess production and decarbonise their grid. That's a lot more efficient than storing

So what is the value for British society to guarantee profitability to (mostly foreign) companies instead of making it a national project? This fallacy that government is unable to deliver "as well as" the private sector needs to end, especially in the UK where we now have decades of data to prove that it's a complete loss for society (rail network, train companies, water distribution, all have been privatised, cost billions per year in subsidies that go directly to shareholder dividends, and deliver absolutely appalling service).

Are there actually enough sugars in it for Bennu to taste sweet? Do we need to re-evaluate the risk posed by asteroid: is the risk of mass diabetes under-estimated?

So they're sending the Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B on their way?

First, this is really old news picked up by the Guardian: https://tobi.rocks/2016/04/wha... That's almost a year old! Second, this is not the biggest security issue IMHO: default WhatsApp behaviour is to backup all your messages unencrypted to Google Drive, therefore, if a government wants to read your messages, they'll just ask Google! (the content is inaccessible by you, but not to them! https://developers.google.com/... )

First, this is really old news picked up by the Guardian: https://tobi.rocks/2016/04/wha... That's almost a year old! Second, this is not the biggest security issue IMHO: default WhatsApp behaviour is to backup all your messages unencrypted to Google Drive, therefore, if a government wants to read your messages, they'll just ask Google! (the content is inaccessible by you, but not to them! https://developers.google.com/... )