It should. Well spotted. That’s another part of my past creeping back in.

Should it be ‘ventilators’ rather than ‘defibrillators’ ?

Thanks very much for that comment. It wasn’t my intention to promote climate doom. We already have enough of that. It was more about how we correct the last fifty years of misinformation, particularly about nuclear. If someone were to add up the number of deaths resulting from nuclear generation, including Chernobyl and Fukushima, it’s probably an order of magnitude below the number who have died producing avocados. Yet the fear induced by nuclear’s demonisation has made its construction largely unaffordable.

I believe that humanity has the ingenuity to provide a future of abundant, clean energy. I don’t think that it will be cheap energy, at least not in the coming century. However, unless people come to understand the consequences of cheap energy and cheap energy policies (which have got us to where we are today), then we will continue to have a problem.

As you say, one of the major issues at the moment is the distortion in generation costs, resulting from Government subsidies which play to a vociferous anti-nuclear, anti-oil lobby. One of the best outcomes from COP26 would be a decision to divert that money into telling the truth about energy options and supporting those that will make a difference, not just those that generate quick PR wins.

Thanks for pointing that out. It neve matters how many time you check – I still miss the obvious stuff.

Nick