Uk full steam ahead for Nuclear power

[Fred Bloggs]

Glad to hear you mention old Charley. I used to work for him, well his grandkids or was it his great grandkids. There were magnificent photographs of him and his turbines hanging up.

In those days I had ambitions of becoming a Generator designer. Nothing like those 900 MW generators. Fabulous machines.

Indeed, terrific machines. Alas, nowadays the UK has not a single factory that can build power station steam turbines. How sad.

[Old Greg]

Thorium is the answer. Maybe. But no use if you want a nuclear weapons industry.

Thorium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Fred Bloggs]

Thorium power plants are full of promise, but when will somebody actually build them?

[PRC1964]

"Lunar Solar" power could be good too Space-based solar power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It is a shame we can't just run a big cable up to the moon.

[BlasterBates]

"Lunar Solar" power could be good too Space-based solar power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It is a shame we can't just run a big cable up to the moon.

If you had the technology to build a cable into space then the same technology could be used to put a syphon tube up there and drain the oceans.



That would be a good film wouldn't it?

[doodab]

It is a shame we can't just run a big cable up to the moon.

Well, not really, because if we did the cable would just get wound around the earth as the moon orbited, until eventually the moon would crash into the earth and extinguish life once and for all.

I think I preferred the windmills TBH.

[doodab]

If you had the technology to build a cable into space then the same technology could be used to put a syphon tube up there and drain the oceans.



That would be a good film wouldn't it?

That would be an awesome way to store the energy from windmills.

[PRC1964]

That would be an awesome way to store the energy from windmills.

Yes, and it would save us all from drowning when the polar ice melts.

[doodab]

Yes, and it would save us all from drowning when the polar ice melts.

We would need to design such a contraption carefully in order to avoid the water either freezing or evaporating into space, both of which could lead to a shortage of beer or other unacceptable outcomes.

[d000hg]

I randomly thought the other day that if you can build a rigid structure up to space or near it, you would have a constant wind of several hundred mph because the atmosphere high up isn't rotating as fast as the Earth.

Dunno how high you have to go to reach the jet stream though. But we're going to have buildings 1 mile high in our lifetimes.