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Presumably to compete with Fonte and offer LB cover.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/gossip/ 22 year CB/LB with 25 caps for the Netherlands, currently plays for Porto.

Interesting to see that Neil Allen has been taken off the job for the second or even third successive game. Steve Wilson is far more factual and not full of bull. I wonder whether issues are afoot with Allen and his sidekick Jordan Cross? http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/first-half-display-costs-pompey-1-6420106

Nice start to the weekend!

And the planning system!

Final answer is still the same. I do not believe that there will be 40MW of installed renewable capacity online by 2020. My reasons are set out in post 76. Others are entitled to have their own alternate views. My view remains the same that the Green party manifesto aspiration (EN211) is not practically achievable and therefore impossible. The NG document you cite is an interesting and well known one. It represents one of three different scenarios and is called Gone Green. It is the most ambitious scenario that they consider. The other documents that you cite offer no hard evidence that 40MW of renewables will be installed by 2020. Rather than further tit for tat, put this in your favourites and bring it up again in 2020 for the answer!

In post 77 you misquote me in post 76. It's clear that I refer to the Greens, not myself. You choose to misquote and then attempt to justify incorrectly. My stance had not altered. I have qualified - if not quantified - my reasons in the list in post 76 also. They are in a clear list that highlights reasons for slowdown and importance of understanding intermittency. Energy is also not the same as electricity.

No, get me straight and don't misquote me. I am saying it is impossible. I know what I am talking about. I've explained why above.

DECC's latest renewable energy figures are interesting and can be viewed at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/energy-trends-june-2014-special-feature-articles-renewable-energy-in-2013 They are up to date to end of 2013. They state that: Total installed renewable capacity - 19.6MW Onshore wind - 7.5MW Offshore wind - 3.7GW Solar - 2.7GW Hydro - 1.7GW Landfill gas - 1GW Energy from Waste - 0.5GW Plant biomass - 2GW Others - the rest My conclusions are: * Onshore wind is unlikely to provide much more in medium term because of limited suitable site availability now and increased activist opposition. 25% efficiency. * Offshore has far more potential but cost implications. One big scheme withdrawn a couple of weeks ago. 35% efficiency. * Solar took a huge leap with favourable subsidies which have now been reduced. Also policy change with government now opposed to turning agricultural land over to solar. * Hydro. Only so many viable mountains and hills and rivers. * Landfill gas. Likely to reduce as landfill continues to fall with higher recycling and reuse. * EfW. Opposed by most greens anyway for perceived air quality / public safety concerns. Top of the NIMBY hates. * Plant biomass - most of that is generated in one place, Drax Power Station (a client of mine btw) and not viewed as renewable by many who oppose. All I am trying to point out is that a transition to renewables is not going to occur as easily as supposed by the most progressive-thinking of Greens! Just sticking with the onshore turbine point, you'd need 80,000 of them at 2MW capacity working at 25% to generate enough energy for today @ c. 40GW demand. Drax Power Station produces 10% of that same national demand on its own!

I'm afraid you don't see the realities of the situation if you think that getting to 40MW of renewables by 2020 is going to happen. I can read documents as well as anyone, but I can also analyse them too!

Some fair points Minty. I'll just add that 40GW of installed capacity of onshore wind (theoretical I realise) is 20,000 new 2MW turbines. At the moment there are about 4,000 turbines generating power and consented, most of which are less than 2MW each. Look at the hassle it has taken to get that far with opposition from the anti-wind brigade. Offshore could provide some substitute but is 3x as expensive to generate. Finally, it needs to be recognized that what Green Party policy says is often very different to membership and activist views and those would inevitably impinge on manifesto policy in the real world. It's exactly the same reason why NGOs like Greenpeace and FOE are staying quiet on potentially helpful technology like carbon capture. If they back it in their policies they fear internecine arguments, losing membership numbers and attendant revenue turnover.

Sorry guys. If you think that the phase in of 40GW of renewable energy generation by 2020 is practical I'll leave you to it! Also to add that because of intermittency, 40GW installed is about 10GW average (if you use a 25% capacity load figure which is about right for onshore wind). Nice ideas, thoroughly impractical.

Because they want to phase coal-fired electricity generation out immediately, halt new nuclear build, ban fracking (which could provide gas for new gas-fired power stations to replace more polluting coal) and are opposed to any form of biomass energy generation. They say that they support onshore and offshore wind, solar, tidal and wave, all of which are intermittent generators. This site gives you the exact current energy demand on the National Grid and what is supplying the demand in terms of energy make up - http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ As I look at it now the following energy generation is occurring: Total demand - 41 giga watts (41GW) Coal 33% Nuclear 11% Gas 36% (CCGT) Wind 8.5% (which is good compared to usual) Hydro 0.7% Biomass 1% French and Dutch imports 7% Not too difficult to work out that the Green's energy policies would cause blackouts! I am pro-renewables but recognise that the current technology is intermittent and cannot replace conventional fossil fuel electricity generation completely right now. Electricity generation is a pragmatic balance between climate change and security of supply.

Now a presenter on BBC North West Tonight.

But the Greens are anti progress and idealisticly unrealistic. If you want to have blackouts and chaos vote for the Greens (or UKIP but for different reasons).

Normally a Labour voter but won't go near it under Ed Miliband. No great ideas at all. Just responsive stuff to general gripers and UKIP. Latest interview with Nick Robinson. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30032168

This is just red top crap aimed at selling papers.

Losing at home to both Notts County (who were releagted) and Notts Forest are my lowlights of 83/84. If we had beaten both of them we would have won the League.

I think that's a master of understatement!

No thanks. Not fit, mentally low and one year older. Leave it where it is.

Frankly I think Clyne is in a position to say: "Roy, stop messing me about or don't bother calling me up any more." Especially after the way Chambers was shown up this weekend.

Poch is not under pressure. No, sirree, he is not under pressure. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29977500 The common factor in the under performance of the defectors is that they have all been given credit for Saint's success last term and nobody has considered the importance of the wider club operations.

He's so clueless yet we all pay him a whacking salary!

Booing at the end! Whatever next...

So take away the cheap L2 season tickets and the Aldershot crowd you get a Pompey home support of about 9,000.