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Well the queen does it. I'm not sure how feasible it'd be for anyone else. Is it economically viable in comparison to a private jet?

Precisely. It's the same argument used by those who hate bimodes, who say it's an excuse to not wire anything. Why not just order diesel trains then?

Output generally hovers in in 3-6GW range, which depending on the time of year and day of the week can be anything from 5% to 20% of demand. I'd say it averages around 10% - higher in the summer due to lower demand. It would be inappropriate to go 100% wind power for exactly the reason you...

Given, for the vast majority of the time, the UK's wind output is considerably higher than its coal one (and even now, in winter, they are about the same), the sentences I've put in bold seem to contradict each other in spirit...

Took it from Marylebone to Oxford today - decent amount of people on the train, and quite a number got on at Bicester Village for the through-run to Oxford. I did notice most of the people who got on in London got off at Oxford Parkway though, so it might take a bit more time for word to filter...

This is incredibly stupid as a get of jail free card - they may as well have just ordered diesel trains in the first place.

In the same way anything can be. Otherwise we'd all still be using SCART for everything with a screen.

But their acceleration is far greater than that of an HST on diesel or electric...

The concept of Interrailing is lost on you..?

Well you're literally saying that we shouldn't spend money ensuring that people don't die through ignorance, and are implying it's their own fault if they die, as though that's more important than the fact that they're dead regardless of who's to blame.

So people deserve to die due to ignorance, do they?

I think once the mainlines are done (and yes, this will take decades...) then this may well be the way forward for the smaller lines which we can afford to close for a period of time like the GOBLIN.

Likewise. I find the fact that someone felt the need to jump in with irrelevant defence of Empire far more telling.

By this logic there'd be no need to electrify at all because they could just use diesels. You've been told this countless times, yet you still never seem to acknowledge it.

If you look at the hourly output figures (which are published more than once a day), Booker is wildly wrong. Drax also generates 3.9GW, not 3,900, and is by far the largest fossil fuel power station we have. I fear your idea that renewables will never outpace fossil fuels is simply woefully out...

Leased to strengthen south of London services? I expect the wires will reach Oxford in CP6 with a completely rebuilt station by around 2024.

Wind is, as I write this, generating 5.25GW, which is a mite under 12% of production; solar 590MW, which is a bit over 1.3%. Together that's about what we get from coal these days, and not much less than nuclear. The days of renewables generating negligible power (at least in the case of wind)...

You keep conflating the government and parliament. Are you going to tell me why Leave MPs and Lords had no unified plan yet instead of always playing the victim? Loving the manipulative "oh I must always be wrong" line though.

Do you understand what parliamentary committees are for? Do you understand the constitution at all? As usual, your argument relies on your own limited "common sense" and incredulity that you could ever be wrong, despite your repeated demonstrations you don't actually understand how things...

1) I agree. I'm calling out Leavers' hypocrisy for rubbishing the Home Office and Treasury when they don't give results they agree with, yet complain they don't get to use them themselves. Either they're impartial and can be trusted, or are partisan and therefore not trustworthy when Leave use...