ACK, with no reliable electricity to power high speed trains, there will need to be advances in clockwork technology, or redundant and unwanted Russian "Olympic fitness" coaches will have to develop fast-breeder, drug-fuelled mice, to spin the wheels of British transport.

golfCharlie. With completion of a high-speed rail connection between Manchester and London, Corrie and Eastenders could merge, with enormous production and viewing energy savings. Pity Peggy kicked bucketwise, her meeting northern folk would have been an experience.

tomo.
It's an elective class and students are informed beforehand what the class entails.

There would seem to be plenty of room for subversives to operate within the imposed rules. If, for example an increase in insect-vector diseases is mentioned, this can easily be countered using IPCC material alone. The restrictions only apply to climate change, so counter material dismissing adverse effects caused by fracking could be used with impunity. Would love to be a student again and take the module. Perhaps interested people could feed Notre Dame students relevant material.

The sad thing is that most Notre Dame students would probably be quite content with the rules and will welcome the freedom not to be distracted by ranting "deniers".

TinyCO2, if it wasn't for the reheated salmonella dishes, the nation would stop running.

Golf Charlie, those power outages aren't supposed to happen. Your 'smart' appliance won't turn on until the peak is over. So your car will be part charged when you set off the next day, you'll be freezing cold until midnight and it'll be lukewarm sandwiches and salmonella for dinner. You will be able to watch Eastenders on your phone, where BBC mockney characters (all the real ones having moved out) will sing the virtues of a low CO2 life.

Harry Passfield, everybody driving home from work, in electric cars, plugging them in to charge, and then putting the kettle on, plus lights, TV, electric oven, washing machine, electric central heating etc at the same time, what could possibly go wrong?

Those involved in the restoration of electrical supplies following power outages are never going to get a moments peace to watch Eastenders or Coronation Street again. There again, no one else will either.

MST = Mistress of Stupid Testimony perhaps.

BTW: I see that Nicola Shaw is a BA (don't know what in) and an MST. I had to look up that. Seems she got it from MIT and it seems to mean Master of Science in Teaching. Unless someone knows better.

In the R4 TODAY piece with Nicola Shaw and the MD of Aggregates (something or other) I was taken by the nonsense of many things that were said. Did anyone else choke on the incredulity of the MD of the the company making Bitumen claiming that she was doing her bit for lowering carbon?
Did anyone else wonder just how insurance companies are going to react to homes filled with batteries constantly being charged and discharged?
And, when Nicola Shaw banged on about smart energy use to match the needs of the 21st century - which, she said, included electric vehicles - didn't she think for one minute that a surge in the take up of electric vehicles will totally screw her plans (if indeed she has any) for how the grid is going to deliver power from non-existent power stations.

At least I managed to start the day by shouting at Horrible.