Mailman,
It's not just political parties either. This daft notion of taking your loyal supporters for granted seems to be everywhere, more or less encapsulated in the customary Your call is important to us phone systems. How they deal with you is much truer than their soothing words.

It fits very well with Orwell's doublethink. We live in a "service economy", where the service is nearly always lousy. You've changed from a "Conservative government" who fostered chaos, to a "Labour Government" which despises the working class.

I wish Orwell had told us what the cure was. Large quantities of oily gin didn't work out all that well for Winston.

The problem with the Tories is that we have past form to go by and that form is very poor simply because there is a HUUUUUUUGE f99king gap between what they say and what they do.

Never forget that it was the Tories that left us, not us leaving the Tories.

Ok, so what caused the sudden dawning realisation about Net Zero in the Tories?

Pcar,
Didn't find Josh's cartoon all that clear. The plugging of the wells is much in the mold of the absolutists dynamiting power stations. And wasn't there an instance where nuclear fuel was deliberately adulterated (U238 mixed in, I think) so it would never again darken the world with its evil power (Google didn't help me on this one).

Sabine Hossenfelder administers a second kick to a paper that tried to attribute the LA fires to climate change. The paper merits a few more kicks.

tomo,
Seems Mann's victory is turning to ashes, though he shouldn't have had a victory in the first place.

I gathered that there were fine conductors being shot from the "gattling gun". I don't think they gave any detail, but I had the notion of a taser-style barb and wire, with the sparks being the wires instantly melted in the plasma.

Something doesn't add up in that white hydrogen story (though it is an impressive find).

Some arithmetic:

Hydrogen is about 3x the energy density of oil, so 46 million tons of H2 is about 138 MT of oil.
A barrel of oil is ~136kg, so 138MT is just over 1 billion barrels of oil.
1 billion x $100 / barrel (being generous) is $100 billion which is a lot less money than $92 trillion. Maybe a missing factor of a thousand somewhere in their figures.

Given daily global oil consumption is about 97 million barrels, the find appears to be less than two weeks' energy consumption. Not that much of a game-changer.

Thought this story of a private road versus the bureaucrats was interesting, but hardly surprising.

tomo,
Some might wonder at this interest in directional high-energy plasma beams following on the heels of the latest step in the evolution of the Ofsted Board, but not me. No, not me.

Was thinking the electricity bill might make the running costs prohibitive, but since my domestic rate of $0.33 /kWh is about 9.2c for a MWs, it's only in the order of tens of dollars per shot. Count me in!