Green elephant

Around £24 million of taxpayers’ money has been blown on an Edstone scam at Portsmouth docks. The idea was to offer ships an electricity supply when they’re moored at the dockside to let them stop burning marine fuel. But the gadgets have no connection to the National Grid and no one knows when, or if, this will happen.
    Worse, it would be four times more expensive for ships to use the electricity on offer than consuming marine fuel thanks to Milipede driving up the cost of dockside power.