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Define "renewable"

Most/all renewable power is based on nuclear reactions.  Wind is powered by heating of the atmosphere by the Sun, waves are generated by wind and solar is self explanatory. About the only form of renewable power that could be significant and is not generated by the giant nuclear fusion reactor at the centre of our solar system is tidal, and even that is gravitationally influenced by the sun.  These renewables are only renewable on the scale of the several billion years the sun has left. The reactions which power the sun are far more "renewable". Geothermal relies on the heat from the Earth's core. Some of which is ancient, some comes from nuclear decay. Not as "clean" as the sun whose hydrogen-deuterium reactions produce helium nuclei as a waste product, the decay of natural elements like uranium produce all sorts of unhealthy by-products. 

Did you vote Conservative in 2015? How do you feel now?

How do you feel now, as one of the 36% of voters who voted, just 20% of those registered? You helped to put in place a Chancellor who could make 3 million of the lowest income people in our country worse off, while giving money back to the rich. The policy of capping tax credits at two children makes sense at the level of four-year-old I suppose. and don't like genuine no-work-ever benefits scroungers any more than anyone else who pays taxes for all of their working life. The policy is slightly better than the Chinese one-child-per-family policy. There is no likelihood of forced abortions or jail sentences for benefit claimants. But how long do you think it will be before the stories of starving/malnourished children in families who dared/circumstances which caused them to have three or more? It's brutal to take benefits from those who have little, or just those who have fallen on hard times for now, while as always excusing those at the top end from paying any tax at all...