Andrew Lilico has a CAPX piece on the futility of tax rises to control UK government debt.
Borrowing is out of control – and tax rises are not the answer
Meanwhile -
Supporting the move to electric vehicles
In a pan-Defence collaboration, trials of hydrogen fuelled charging facilities to power the electric vehicle fleet have concluded.
This marks a significant step forward in the use of sustainable energy sources in Defence.
Generating enough electricity to power roughly 120,000 miles of travel, the trial provided learning on the use of hydrogen as a source of fuel in Defence’s future energy mix.
Borrowing is out of control – and tax rises are not the answer
- UK government debt, currently running at just under 100% of GDP, risks rising uncontrollably
- Even the UK's current tax plans may not be achievable – there's no room to raise them further
- If we just stop doing stupid things, there is scope for the UK to catch up on growth
Meanwhile -
Supporting the move to electric vehicles
In a pan-Defence collaboration, trials of hydrogen fuelled charging facilities to power the electric vehicle fleet have concluded.
This marks a significant step forward in the use of sustainable energy sources in Defence.
Generating enough electricity to power roughly 120,000 miles of travel, the trial provided learning on the use of hydrogen as a source of fuel in Defence’s future energy mix.
This green wheeze aims to generate hydrogen via electrolysis using electricity from wind and solar, then generate electricity from the hydrogen.
9 comments:
"This green wheeze aims to generate hydrogen via electrolysis using electricity from wind and solar, then generate electricity from the hydrogen."
Ah, Zaphod's Infinite Improbability Drive . . .
The MoD used to use aviation fuel to deliver hydrogen bombs. Perhaps if the hydrogen works, they can use it to drop aviation fuel on our enemies.
Why don't they develop a perpetual motion machine. There have been many good examples which just needed "funding" to produce efficient and very sustainable means of transport as well as electrical generators for homes and industry.
I am sure that this present government of non STEM educated persons will see the logic in this and get UK's future in it. We have an opportunity to be the World leader in this technology.
Put on your shoes. Tie your left shoe lace to your right shoe lace and you will be instantly recognised as a green activist when you're out walking.
Bureaucrats will always step up to extra work (with extra staff) but will not step down unless ordered to.
When I was employed a small part of my teams' work was to produce 'service reports' after IT service breaks. These often contained statistics about 'up time' and other events for senior internal customers and were produced monthly.
We became convinced that after the first heady rush nobody read them. So we continued to produce them for a couple of months *but didn't send them out*. We received no complaints, so we stopped producing them. We did this because our time was limited.
Ask yourself how many reports are produced in Bureaucracy land that are no longer necessary. Ditto committees and QUANGOs.
Jannie - and with none of that tedious mucking about with reality.
Sam - yes, the project could be called "The Last Few Drops".
Doonhamer - I've been wondering if I could develop a perpetual motion machine in our shed, demonstrate it to Ed Miliband to acquire some funding then quickly emigrate to somewhere warm.
Tammly - I recently bought a pack of socks where each pair has one sock labelled "L" and one labelled "R". I think I must have bought eco-socks by mistake.
DJ - if bureaucrats had used your reports as regular agenda items for routine meetings, you may have found it more difficult to stop generating them. I had that issue with one of our reports.
You missed a bit off that last sentence. You should have added "...and losing half of the energy in the process".
Nobody competent thinks hydrogen is the solution to anything.
Peter - yes you are right. The hydrogen game seems to be subsidy farming and little else.
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