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Re:The UK is wasting a lot of wind power by ta545 on Thursday January 12, 2023 @03:38PM (#34359940)
Well there was a benevolent dictator in the recent past (upto 1995), when the grid was publicly owned.
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Re:The UK is wasting a lot of wind power by olivermarks on Thursday January 12, 2023 @04:07PM (#34360259)
Agree, but there have been some very expensive local authority disasters around solar.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/the-chauffeur-the-leaked-tape-an...

Publicly owned old technology is very different to attempts to publicly develop next generation power, which tends to require brave entrepreneurs historically.

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