Glad you enjoyed it!

I rate Stross very highly as his what-if's and settings are wonderfully creative, while his writing style is often darkly humorous - a fun approach in a genre that often tends towards overly serious tones.

If you liked Wireless you should definitely check out some of his …

I'm on the Claverton Energy Group mailing list. Here's a (slightly amended) post from me on the safety of nuclear power:

It seems to me that the problem is the cap on the liability of nuclear power companies if there's an accident. That is, if an accident occurs and its …

Palimpsest is the last story of Wireless, a collection of short stories by Charles Stross. Janos recommended Stross. In fact he did more than that, he presented me with a plastic bag filled with sci-fi books, one of which was Wireless!

But back to Palimpsest. It's a novella, and really …

> Taxing things to change behavior, surely that
> is unfair on the poor?

All the revenue would be divided up equally amongst the population. See http://www.polifesto.com/policies/12/

Hehe!

I did laugh out loud as predicted. I feel that particular dog has had it's day!

Your absolutely right, price goes up, people buy less. But its not linear, and its bounded. If I were an economist I could explain better, I think its called elasticity of supply. Actually with energy its probably in-elasticity of supply.

But, as I say, to some extent I agree with …

This is just my personal opinion.

The Utopia question: all I'm saying is that as the price of fossil fuels goes up, people will buy less of them. Is that so very Utopian?

One day, can I come and visit the utopia that you live in?

Out of interest is the response of a personal nature, or in your professional capacity at WW?

The UK government has published a consultation on Electricity Market Reform. Here's my response:

Hi, here's my personal response to the Electricity Market Reform consultation. Can I remark that I'm pleased that it's published under the excellent Open Government License. There are answers to the specific questions later on, but …