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Oh dear: The 'cold' war starts up again

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    #11
    Ffs

    what's happened to your entreprenurial spirit?

    Since hubby's a nuclear stress engineer I'm expecting him to earn 2-3 times more than I currently am....

    And there's less likelyhood of outsourcing this bit of work to Chenobyl...

    Let the good times roll!
    "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
    - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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      #12
      Originally posted by cojak
      what's happened to your entreprenurial spirit?

      Since hubby's a nuclear stress engineer I'm expecting him to earn 2-3 times more than I currently am....

      And there's less likelyhood of outsourcing this bit of work to Chenobyl...

      Let the good times roll!
      Jacko, ask him if he know's of a guy called Alan Taylor - ex BNFL and UKAEA(Risley).

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        #13
        Originally posted by zeitghost
        Fusion power is the answer, it's 20 years away: 1950s

        Fusion power is the answer, it's 20 years away: 1960s

        Fusion power is the answer, it's 20 years away: 1970s

        Fusion power is the answer, it's 20 years away: 1980s

        Fusion power is the answer, it's 20 years away: 1990s

        Fusion power is the answer, it's 20 years away: 2000s

        Fusion power is the answer, it's 20 years away: 2010s

        Fusion power is the answer, it's 20 years away: 2020s

        Need I say more?
        Nah, now it's expected in 2050

        http://www.iter.org/Future-beyond.htm

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          #14
          Originally posted by mcquiggd
          All the required technical solutions are there - all thats needed is a governing regime - that is not obsessed with tax, red tape, and sending whatever is left over abroad.
          I'm not sure all the required technical solutions are there.

          We need better batteries to power cars and larger road vehicles over as long distances and comparable grunt as petrol currently does.

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            #15
            It will soon become apparent that most deep gas is actually not fossil at all...
            Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
            threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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              #16
              Originally posted by threaded
              It will soon become apparent that most deep gas is actually not fossil at all...
              Soon???? It has been argued since the beginning of the 19th Century, Alexander von Humboldt and Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac both knew the biological origin of oil theory was most likely tosh. The temperatures and pressures required to form the hydrocarbons found in oil mean they simply cannot be created in the sedimentary rocks the reservoirs are located in as the biological origin theory proposes - they would be metamorphosed if subjected to that regime.

              The modern abiotic oil theory was expounded in the 1950's and is widely accepted by metallurgists, geologists are a little slow to accept it as the current model has located most of the present oil reserves known in the world today. However the aboitic theory ALSO explains the presence of these deposits, for example the gulf states and also explains deposits such as the Dnieper-Donetsk Basin which is NOT explained by the biological origin theory.

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                #17
                spinach

                help is on the way...
                MIT has succedeeded in making solar cells from spinach

                http://www.physorg.com/news1181.html

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by sappatz
                  help is on the way...
                  MIT has succedeeded in making solar cells from spinach

                  http://www.physorg.com/news1181.html
                  Glory be, that saves the pork bellies for me!!!

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by sappatz
                    help is on the way...
                    MIT has succedeeded in making solar cells from spinach

                    http://www.physorg.com/news1181.html
                    Now, if they could make spinach from solar cells...

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by vista
                      gordon 'fat b@ stard' brown has done all he can to discourage UK energy companies from getting creative by doubling north sea oil taxes.
                      Increase them tenfold to discourage extraction. Firstly, it will be worth more later, secondly, that would encourage exploration.

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