Acorn, Just a little bit poorer, having wasted just a little bit more public money on ill conceived projects. The big game in town is making our power infrastructure as efficient as possible in it's integration of renewables . The best subsidy for manufacturing is cheap power . This 1 billion is straight off a white board pork barrelling. Government should be aiming to remove obstacles and facilitate this sort of venture , but if it isn't viable without a billion dollars bung , it isn't viable.
