This, at least sometimes, happens: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-68...

Largely because it was reported so widely and was obvious what had happened.

Where I live a listed church mysteriously burnt down the night after planning permission to turn it into a hotel was declined.

Oddly it's just sat there as a burnt out husk for the last 15 years, rather than the developer forcing the issue.

For those of you missing this, I'm assuming this is a reference to the song "Another Day in Paradise" by Phil Collins (who was the front-man in the band Genesis).

Thanks, I had missed at first. After I realised it also made me think about a famous movie scene [1] involving a financial guy and the Genesis lead singer. Wonder if the founders of this company had that in mind when they set it up.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yM7Xe3HrT8

My understanding is that there's a surplus of hydroelectric dams, that were built far from any reasonable amount of electricity demand, which is why there's excess green energy in (parts of) China.

England has a right to roam (https://www.gov.uk/right-of-way-open-access-land/use-your-ri...), but it's less strong than Scotland's (https://www.scotways.com/faq/law-on-statutory-access-rights).

Low Tech Magazine did a piece on this back in June: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/06/wooden-wind-turbines...

Do you have a source for this? I've never seen anything about rebates.