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Would you also ban cash-only businesses and require all businesses to accept card payments/bank transfers as well as cash? Surely those are discriminating against people who prefer to use card payments?

A few other issues: Ferguson Marine was bought by a prominent Yes supporter with the backing of the Scottish Government. During the tender process Ferguson Marine was given unfair advantages in information. Their tender was chosen despite being neither the best nor the cheapest (the most...

Actually there is one big reason: Money. BT required enormous capital investment which was counted as part of the public finances. This would not have been forthcoming at a time when the Treasury was using Royal Mail as a cash cow (by setting negative External Financing Limits). HM Government...

HVDC links are between 100 kV to 800 kV with the current UK links ranging from 200 kV to 600 kV. The Chinese have a 1,100 kV UHVDC link stretching 2,046 miles to transfer 12 GW.

I don't see how you got that from my post at all. I was talking about households with multiple cars (34% of all households) where they do not have space to park on the road. Nothing to do with parking on someone else's driveway.

Need to be careful with that statistic because that is using all UK households, not just car owning households. Access to driveways will be higher amongst the latter group than the overall population...

SpaceX have succeeded in catching the Super Heavy booster on the 5th test flight.

Main reason to have one is that someone could choose to make your life difficult if you're supposed to have it but don't. Whether a rental car desk turning you away, a Police officer who has pulled you over for a document check (more common with rental cars as they may be reported as stolen when...

Incorrect. The Thatcher government had begun diplomatic negotiations in 1980 for a peaceful transfer of sovereignty to Argentina subject to the consent of the Falkland Islanders. However, the islanders were resolutely opposed to the plan and were supported by backbenchers in Parliament...

Also worth noting that daytime electricity will become cheaper as we increase our solar PV capacity.

Tesla already invest significantly in their Supercharger network. https://www.tesla.com/en_gb/findus And other manufacturers are partnering up to build charging networks.

It's an issue for Teslas (which use their vision systems to read speed limit signs) on the A9 where the single carriageway sections have signs indicating the 50mph HGV trial limits.

At what point is it no longer acceptable to disadvantage the majority of passengers and the taxpayer (through the transfer of resources to fund services used by a minority of passengers)? If we invented the railway today, would we have paper tickets or ticket offices or even TVMs?

Railway-related news https://twitter.com/ukraine_world/status/1654110614778793985 https://twitter.com/Lyla_lilas/status/1654090711401152513

A million Reichsmarks has a very different value to the Nazi war economy in 1944. Starship is far cheaper to SpaceX today. And SpaceX have the benefit of telemetry that V2 scientists could only dream of. SpaceX expect to get the cost of a Raptor 2 engine done to $250,000 and the cost of a...

The entire engineering philosophy of SpaceX is rapid prototyping and iteration through design-build-test. This is not NASA/ULA where everything takes years and costs billions as they try to design out every last issue on the entire system before first flight. SpaceX's approach has so far seen...

The Confederate States Navy did in fact have a significant number of ships built in Liverpool during the American Civil War. They took advantage of a loop-hole in the British proclamation of neutrality that allowed the construction of war-like vessels provided they were not armed until in...

The Capacity Market auctions set the market price for standby generation services. Auctions are held four years (T-4) and one year (T-1) ahead for each year. The auction starts at the maximum price and usually goes through successive rounds of lower prices until the market clears at a price...