Having raised just a quarter of the $2m he needs, he is having to rein in his ambitions.
If the buyer delivers to the board enough electricity to cover all his own needs, he is spared scheduled power cuts.
As he sees her slip from one character to the next, and struggles to get a handle on her basic needs, he is answering the suspicions of the moviegoing public.
On housing, although I'd prefer Miliband to have pledged to build the million homes Britain needs, he is at least grabbing the nation's housing crisis by the throat and committing to getting hundreds of thousands of new homes built.
Another round of civil war is the last thing he needs: he is more likely to wait for the new South Sudan to unravel of its own accord.The cash flowing into the south since 2005 has evaporatedThat need not happen if South Sudan gets far-seeing or even just plain capable leadership.
Even if it is only part of his electricity needs, he is able to recover the capital cost in four years, and hedge his power costs for 20 (the life of a wind turbine), at a fraction of the normal industrial tariff.
