Boris Johnson’s optimistic green-energy plan
Making 40GW of electricity from offshore wind is a stretch
WHEN IT COMES to self-deprecation, Boris Johnson is hard to beat. “I remember how some people used to sneer at wind power 20 years ago and say that it wouldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding,” he said at the Conservative Party conference on October 6th. By “some people” he meant “me, myself and I, in 2013”. Rebranding himself as a convert, Mr Johnson set out the first step of a ten-point plan for a “green revolution”, the remainder of which is promised later this month.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Straws in the wind”
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