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The UK government's support for cleantech takes the biscuit.

Last week President Obama awarded $3.4 billion in grants to support smart grid companies in the USA. Meanwhile in the UK after several days of dithering, the prime minister announced his favourite biscuit was a chocolate digestive.

The UK doesn't get cleantech and as a result should prepare for brownouts. That's not just a new prime minister – that's electricity being cut off on a rotating basis, as happens routinely in South Africa, as there will not be enough energy efficiency or generation capacity in the future to power the daily... read more...

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