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I don't think so, Tom! Even though the State earns a lot on the sale of petrol, gas and electricity to the public, the price of oil and gas, which must both be imported to Britain, and also of uranium, for that matter, means that every day, enormous sums of money leave the national economy to import these resources.
This contributes to Britain's trade deficit, and the Government would be more than happy to supply power that is generated in Britain (wind/solar or water/wave obtainbed). It would not prevent the State from taxing it and earning an income, but it would cut out the $100 a barrel that currently leave our economy in order to import oil/gas.
It would also cut out the terribly high expenses of building 200 nuclear power plants, the number that would be necessary for Britain to have 100% electricity supply from atomic fusion, and obviously the risk of contamination would be gone too.
You are right about some sort of wave-power technology, but I think it is still on the drawing board, and cannot be put into practice, at least at the moment.
So again, more research is the answer, and the closing of Pfizer should actually be considered a God-given inscentive to open up some new centre here in Kent, and get researchers working on innovative projects.