I'm with you. I started off really liking his writing, but after a while I trusted it less and less, because he just didn't seem to understand the complexities of things. His heart seemed to be in the right place, but his brain never quite made it.
There's a lot of bad journalism about. I spent a little time doing public affairs for an energy company. The base quality of journalism appeared poor. Science or energy correspondents confusing megawatts and megawatthours. But beyond a basic error of fact some profound difficulties getting it.
For example it takes at least five years to build a power station and you expect to run it and pay for it over 2o-60 years. Costs are set in decades, prices in half hourly blocks. This uncertainty drives a lot of behaviour in the industry but I never really got the feeling that the journalists I was talking to really got it.
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For example it takes at least five years to build a power station and you expect to run it and pay for it over 2o-60 years. Costs are set in decades, prices in half hourly blocks. This uncertainty drives a lot of behaviour in the industry but I never really got the feeling that the journalists I was talking to really got it.