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Roland Piquepaille writes "Scotland, like many European countries, must comply with regulations requiring that a mandatory percentage of the energy it uses comes from renewable sources. For Scotland, this percentage will be 18% in 2010 and 40% by 2020. One of the programs in development is Ian Bryden's sea 'Snail' program. The Snail is a 30-ton anchoring device which uses hydrofoils -- wings that 'fly' in the water -- to generate enough power from tidal waves to service 10,000 homes by 2007. This overview contains more details and a picture of a prototype of the Snail with its six wings." There are several mentions of this in UK newspapers and the Scottish government webpages.
Yes you baby, Big Bad Uncle Sam is taking away all your pennies and being evil and ruining your life and taking your freedoms... waaaaaa! waaaaaa!
The noun for citizens of the United States is Americans not USians. USian makes you sound like some sort of ignorant turd, or French.
Instead of your authoritarian social engineering project to have the Central Committee of Commissars (no doubt with you and your ilk on the committee) artificially control the price of fuels, in order to control everyone who doesn't agree with you, couldn't we let the prices go up naturally as the resource becomes scarce, at which point people will naturally make the choice to seek other lower cost sources of energy? I prefer using the law of supply and demand rather than an artificial edict from a baby bolshevik.
There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.
USian makes you sound like some sort of ignorant turd, or French.
Nope, it's claiming that there are prescriptively "correct" nouns in a language that makes you sound like an ignorant turd, or French.
(Why)Don't we have regulations like that over here in the US? And how come I managed to get first post? Is the apocalypse coming?-----
The US does not have regulations like that because we are still a sovereign nation. We did not turn our nation over to the rule of the EU or UN.
Must post AC because of the whiney bitches in Europe!
Why are you such an over-sensitive pussy?