The PM has never been afraid of making ambitious plans, his garden bridge in London and road connection between Scotland and Northern Ireland just two of his big ideas which never got off the ground. But with the UK committed to reducing their carbon emissions, there is a real need for innovation when it comes to renewable energy and a £160million offer to upgrade ports to help pull in the 40 gigawatts of electricity from offshore wind turbines is a drop in the ocean, or proverbial north sea. Industry leaders have taken their turn to pour cold water on Johnson’s plans, The Green Party suggesting that the true cost of 3,000 new turbines would be nearer to £48billion, but the Prime Minister is determined to push ahead. “I remember how some people used to sneer at wind power, 20 years ago, and say that it wouldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding,” the Prime Minister said at least week’s Tory conference. “They forgot the history of this country. It was offshore wind that puffed the sails of Drake and Raleigh and Nelson, and propelled this country to commercial greatness.” In a bizarre turn of events, The Daily Mail turned to the former Extinction Rebellion spokesperson, Mr Zion Lights, for comment on Johnson’s big plans. “Speaking as a committed environmentalist, I applaud in principle the shift away from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources,” Lights said. “But the wholly unrealistic pledge to power every home in Britain with wind energy within a decade was, quite frankly, entirely typical of this Government’s muddled thinking when it comes to future-proofing our energy supplies. “Even if Britain cranked up its wind power provision to the level the Prime Minister proposes, this amount would power only about half the homes in Britain – or 7 per cent of the total national energy demand. And that would only be when the turbines are turning.”