The price of electricity in the UK is linked to the most costly supply in the entire mix. So if gas is the most expensive then we pay all other power-producing suppliers, regardless of means of generating, the wholesale price we'd pay for gas. It's a strange system.
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It's not exactly a fact. In my view Concorde was killed by a 'perfect storm': changing market conditions, 9/11, that terrible crash in Paris.
Together those three were what caused the towel to be thrown into the ring. Every time I visit Paris and I see it impaled on its stand it reminds me of a butterfly or something trying to escape. Such a sad image.
In many ways, the Concorde was "dead" well before 9/11 or the Paris crash. Yes, those killed it for good, but costs, sonic booms (US landings were initially banned, then limited to JFK and Dulles), and politics killed the concept shortly after it was launched.
Yeah, the lack of supersonic overfly on most countries (not just the USA) was one of the main factors against Concorde (despite the fact that in many cases the decibel levels were lower than cotemporaneous aircraft).
It's no coincidence it's main routes (London->JFK, Paris ->JFK) are 90% over the Ocean.
If you actually managed to get long distance hypersonic routes (such as London->Sydney, or even London->Beijing, London->Tokyo, etc.) at a significant time reduction, I can see it working.
As someone who travels for a living, the speed of the plane isn't that big of a deal. It's the fact that to get from North America to just about anywhere Africa, I have to detour through Europe, which is a complete waste of my time. I would much rather have better routes than faster planes. (For example, I could get to West Africa in ~12 hours from the east coast of the U.S. if the routes existed. That's a nice overnight flight, landing in the afternoon. I wouldn't have to waste a full day stuck in a plane, no new technology required.)
I don't think Microsoft are going anywhere soon, if at all. They are too established in the corporate world and while there are still I.T managers that have the philosophy of 'I won't get fired for buying IBM' then there will be a requirement for developers to make software for them.
What they have done last week is a massive step, but its just one step and many more need to be taken to catch up on lost ground.
