As someone just about to start a PHD post in condensed solar, I share your interest in getting renewables up. the UK can't really use much of what I'll be making but with the wind, tides and waves, it really shouldn't need it. The UK government are fools if they don't greenlight a load of marine-generation projects like the ones entering service in the scottish isles and the proposed tidal ring near Swansea Bay.
The UK government are fools
Yep.
We do teh stuped on a monumental scale. Somewhere I have a Whitehall document from 2004 predicting the next few years of oil prices.
The most pessimistic prediction for 2008 is less than $40/bl. The best case is around $20/bl.
