Reply to: Britain Freezes to death

[TimberWolf]

Has any of you lot got a fast breeder to work properly yet?

I do find the sodium leaks so amusing.

Fusion, naturally enough, is still 50 years away.

Ho hum.

Looks like I'll be stuck on this godforsaken rock for another millennium.

I could walk home quicker.

India seems to be leading the way with both fast breeder and thorium reactors, while everyone else is or has shut their fast breeders down, or they melted down on their own accord.
Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Advanced Heavy Water Reactor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[hyperD]

It is in my case ...

May the Outsource be with you!

[sasguru]

A good point sas, but I fear is it not the aristocracy nor the descendents of those privileged dynasties that are returning a percentage of their wealth in order to absolve their angst and post-empire guilt,

It is in my case ...

[hyperD]

To be fair that's a drop in the ocean compared to the billions we took off them over the centuries. Not for nothing did all the aristocracy go to India to "make their fortune".
I sometimes think if we had been like Germany, who didn't have much of an empire and therefore a captive market, perhaps we'd be less lazy, have made better stuff and be more able to pay our way in the world now.

A good point sas, but I fear is it not the aristocracy nor the descendents of those privileged dynasties that are returning a percentage of their wealth in order to absolve their angst and post-empire guilt, but the so called untermensch that are consistently beaten ever closer to the renowned poverty line that are being forced to pay this unnecessary tithe, encouragés by the constant verbal drumming and self-flagellation of our media and political elite?

[sasguru]

How much did the Romans and the Danes take off us - where is our payment?



I think the Germans tried to create one a bit back but others wouldn't allow it! There are lots of films about it anyway

You hear that whooshing sound? That's the sound of points going straight over your head, that is.

[BoredBloke]

To be fair that's a drop in the ocean compared to the billions we took off them over the centuries. Not for nothing did all the aristocracy go to India to "make their fortune".

How much did the Romans and the Danes take off us - where is our payment?

I sometimes think if we had been like Germany, who didn't have much of an empire and therefore a captive market, perhaps we'd be less lazy, have made better stuff and be more able to pay our way in the world now.

I think the Germans tried to create one a bit back but others wouldn't allow it! There are lots of films about it anyway

[sasguru]

Yes I changed it because I thought it was too much, but I quickly checked up and it's about a billion over 3 years...

To be fair that's a drop in the ocean compared to the billions we took off them over the centuries. Not for nothing did all the aristocracy go to India to "make their fortune".
I sometimes think if we had been like Germany, who didn't have much of an empire and therefore a captive market, perhaps we'd be less lazy, have made better stuff and be more able to pay our way in the world now.

[hyperD]

£8m? A good fraction of a £billion over a few years isn't it?

Yes I changed it because I thought it was too much, but I quickly checked up and it's about a billion over 3 years...

[TimberWolf]

Agreed. Maybe the £8m we gave India might be better spent if we decided to follow the Thorium route instead of turning the country into a glorified hairdressing saloon.

£8m? A good fraction of a £billion over a few years isn't it?

[SupremeSpod]

There's no demand for nuclear power stations in the UK. We've got more than enough weapons grade material.

[hyperD]

Countries like India and China are putting fast breeder and Thorium reactors on-line currently, and if that comes off we will be laughing for hundreds or perhaps thousands of years. Except when it comes to buying Thorium off India maybe. I do hope our next generation of nuclear reactors will be of a type that can be easily converted to using Thorium.

Agreed. Maybe the ~£1b we gave India might be better spent if we decided to follow the Thorium route instead of turning the country into a glorified hairdressing saloon.

[TimberWolf]

Countries like India and China are putting fast breeder and Thorium reactors on-line currently, and if that comes off we will be laughing for hundreds or perhaps thousands of years. Except when it comes to buying Thorium off India maybe. I do hope our next generation of nuclear reactors will be of a type that can be easily converted to using Thorium.

[hyperD]

Surely the turbines can be used to blow the cold weather back to Siberia.

Only 20% of the time. The other 80% will have to be done by Combined Cycle Gas Turbines. Oh yes, and a load of your taxes.

[VectraMan]

Surely the turbines can be used to blow the cold weather back to Siberia.

[TimberWolf]

What about homeless people, or aren't they including in the mortality figures? They must be pretty tough, as I see them sitting on the cold pavement in -10 C weather. Where do they go at night?