I'll be honest with you — I've had four hours sleep, I'm in the middle of lambing, and I still think this is one of the best conversations I've ever had. Welcome to the Energy Special.
I've got four incredible guests around the table tonight, all with very different views, and I want to hear every single one of them. Paul Burgess has done nearly 300 videos on net zero and energy policy and he doesn't pull his punches. Jason Barker is an engineer and scientist living on a smallholding in mid Wales who's fighting to stop 500 wind turbines being built on the Cambrian Mountains — and he's now standing for the Senate to make his voice heard. Ben Plummer is an engineer and smallholder who builds his own off-grid energy systems. Jacob Taewa from SolarEdge is the man who helped get my own solar system up and running — and I'm now hitting 70-80% of my farm's electricity from renewables, even in winter. And John Devine from TCD Energy has saved me personally £7,000 on one contract alone — the energy market is a minefield and John knows how to navigate it.
We get into everything. The best form of energy. Whether we should be drilling in the North Sea — and fracking. Why my fertiliser has just gone up £245 a tonne. The wind turbine scandal where turbines are being paid billions to switch off. Whether the Severn Barrage was ever a real option. How energy companies are getting away with murder on business contracts. And the big one — should we scrap net zero altogether?
I go into this podcast a solar convert and I come out the other side with a lot more questions. That's exactly what Mud, Sweat and Tears is for. No bulls**t. Just facts, figures, and people who really know what they're talking about.
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