it should be, but we *had* a green energy sector. We were quite big on building turbines and researching tidal etc. in the 80s and 90s
Once it came down to actually manufacturing things we just sort of seemed to give up. Apparently we just want financial services that employ a few thousand people.
Tristan Colgate-McFarlane
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