Of the 532 respondents to last week’s poll, the largest proportion, 33 per cent, declined to pick an option. Of those that did pick, 30 per cent thought that encouraging domestic- or district-scale solar was the best way to help make solar power more competitive with other electricity sources. The next group, 20 per cent, thought that developiong a domestic PV panel making sector based on novel technology would be most effective, while 8 per cent thought a southern European ring main allowing the sunnier countries to export electricity to the dull north more easily would help bring solar prices down; a related scheme, to use concentrating solar power to generate in North Africa and distribute this to Europe attracted 5 per cent. Just 4 per cent supported rstoring subsidy to large-scale solar.
Poll: Should the UK’s railways be renationalised?
Rail passenger numbers declined from 1.27 million in 1946 to 735,000 in 1994 a fall of 42% over 49 years. In 2019 the last pre-Covid year the number...