UK must lead on greener energy to inspire others

link to British needs: and do major companies contribute to Tory funds? Any “values” here?

Probably the most striking “value” now exemplified by the self-styled “party of Government” is an apparent tolerance of racism. The individual who has given the largest ever donation to party funds said when he saw MP Diane Abbott on TV he wanted to “hate all black women” and that “she should be shot”. He has insisted what he said “has nothing to do with her gender or the colour of her skin”. Rishi Sunak took hours to decide to criticise this statement and has no intention, at present, of giving back this tainted money, so the “best of the new” includes condemning outrageously racist and misogynist language not because it represents a shattering immorality, but only because of media pressure.

Ethical leadership or the baseness of the “worst of the new”?

At a local and national level we have the worst of the old and the new. Can anyone believe that there is no need for change? ✒ I’M fed-up with people criticising clean energy by telling us that the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow, because wind and solar saved us lots of unaffordable gas last year. We need to decarbonise if we want the earth to continue to sustain us.

The Royal Society has written a paper that says wind and solar alone can affordably cre

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If we don’t continue to make progress, we cannot ask others to do what is necessary

ate enough power to make green hydrogen to power turbines when the sun and wind aren’t playing ball.

We have other storage options as well. Batteries are falling in price and energy can be stored by heating sand or pressurising CO2, and such systems are already being used abroad. A UK firm has developed a pumped hydro solution based on a liquid