Monday, 8 April 2013

Fun Online Polls: Generating capacity & the BBC's new class system

The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:

How much of the UK's current electricity generating capacity will be shut down under the EU's Large Combustion Plants Directive?

One percent - 2%
Five percent - 2%
Ten percent - 7%
Fifteen percent - 20%
Twenty percent - 70%


If we include those power stations which were shut down recently in the numerator and denominator, the answer is somewhere between 15% and 20%. Two people who know about this stuff confirmed this.

So well done 90% of you. You do wonder, do they have any sort of back-up plan, and if so, what is it, or are they just plain nuts?
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The BBC did their own gloriously daft Fun Online Poll last week, I ended up as Technical Middle Class, whatever that means; the labels used were suitably anodyne so that nobody feels too hard done by.

So that's this week's Fun Online Poll, in which, if any, of the BBC's newfangled social classes do you consider yourself to be?

Take part here or use the widget in the sidebar.

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