The form has a box for your postcode, a box for your views, and a limit of fourteen hundred characters. My team fed opinions into the consultation for a full Monday and tracked where each one went. They went fourteen metres and stopped.
We ran a control group. Fourteen people wrote their views on renewable energy on paper and posted nothing at all. Those views finished in the same place as the submitted ones. The gap between the two groups was too small to mean anything. In plain words, we could not tell them apart.
The company itself is the dull part of the study. It would build wind and water power for the whole country and keep the lights on long after the gas runs thin. I read the plan twice. I will not read it again.
The public is asked to have their say. We can confirm the say is had. We measured nothing after that.
The frightening finding is the pricing. This company can make the electricity, own the wire, and hand you the power, and somebody else still decides what your bill says. We modelled where that leads. It leads to a nation with limitless clean energy and unlimited free speech about the cost of it.
