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  1. Here is a bit about uranium reserves. About 90 years worth at current usage. So if we doubled (globally) nuclear generation, about 50 years. Would be hard to build a facility when you know it will be hard to fuel it before it's end of life. https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/uranium-resources/supply-of-uranium
  2. All I see is a man up a lift.
  3. Shame I am work at the moment. When I studied RE we looked at all firms of electricity production. Nuclear, when generating is very low CO2 generation. The long term storage is a problem, mainly political, latest idea is to bury it in the Irish Sea mudstone. It may happen. There is a question mark over the security of uranium supplies, processing, transport and storage. Regarding the excess thermal energy heating the atmosphere, not really. But local heating is a problem, as is excess air temperature. A French reactor was on reduced power because it could not get enough cooling. All large thermal plants cab suffer from that. The main thing is to reduce the CO2e gasses and particulates. These are the main problems. CO2e gasses do not act like a blanket, depending on which model used to calculate, it really just allows more energy to be stored kinetically (temperature is the mean free path speed of molecules after all).
  4. What has 4 legs and goes woof. There are rig and well fired everywhere. Kuwait had a lot.
  5. And an Irishman won the Tour. Actually that was a year later.
  6. We are still cleaning up after a reactor was shut down and restarted incorrectly. Buildings kill more birds.
  7. Except we do.
  8. We don't have a meaningful FF power station in Cornwall (there are some diesel ones IoS, Indian Queens, Treliske), we don't have that many solar or wind farms either, really. I cannot ever remember anyone saying anything about jobs. There are 3 people in the Vattenfall office in PZ, no one has any idea what they do. But surely, any system that reduces the need for staff is better. You end up with bullshit jobs being created otherwise.
  9. Demand a replacement if it does have VIP. Why don't they just glue on some clips? I had a early production 309 turbo, the extra wires were attached onto self adhesive clips, was about the only thing that did not fall off. Except the brakes, they caught in fire.
  10. My parents lived next door to a school once. That was no benefit to them, too many noisy kids, and cars everywhere twice a day. But society benefitted, some of those kids went on to work, others had kids, that are going to pay to keep me housed, healthy and fed. As sooner as I hear about 'the local community' I think small town, selfish mentality.
  11. Better off making ammonia and combining it with nitrogen. Easier storage, better return and more useful. We have the technologies to do this already and there is currently a world shortage as the ships full of it are in the Muddle East.
  12. I drove from St Agnes to Penzance the other day. Think there are 12 small turbines scattered about, plus 1 wind farm. Hardly noticed them. The one in PZ is minus it's blades at the moment. All those turbines could be replaced with just 1 large turbine now. But that is not going to happen as the twats down here don't know the theory behind them and assume 1 large one is the same as a small one.
  13. Are Switzerland, if it is not illegal, it is compulsory.
  14. Easy fix, 25 quid.
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