Solar boomed in the UK a few years back, but now hardly any of it’s going up. Which seems a shame what with this INFERNAL sunny weather.

What’s happened? Why are we stalling just as other countries go nuts for the most popular green technology? And where the hell are our solar powered flying cars, like we were promised?

Never ones to pass up a cheese stick and some OJ, we crashed the Solar Trade Association’s 40th birthday shindig to nobble some proseccoed solar-y types and find out whether the future really is bright.

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