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Originally Posted by Chris
No more pyrrhic than counting 'planned' factories in the EU figure while dismissing the UK's 3rd potential plant as 'barely on the drawing board'.
Around two thirds of total Lithium Ion battery production planned in the entire EU and UK is at material risk of cancellation, or at least significant scaling down, because of a brewing subsidy war with the USA.
https://www.transportenvironment.org...risk-analysis/
The BBC article is wise to caution counting the Northumberland site proposed by Britishvolt as a UK site, but is very much counting chickens that have not hatched (and may never do so) by attributing 35 to the EU.
My point is, you can make statistics say pretty much whatever you want, and someone on the BBC newsdesk this afternoon appears to be doing so. |
I wasn't counting them, the BBC was. I guess you seem to joining them in making statistics say pretty much whatever you want.
Trying to big up the project you so zealously support is like putting lipstick on a pig. It is a failure as everyone can see apart from those who can still claim the Emperor is really wearing clothes.