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And on what evidence do you base this conclusion that it's passing?
Seems to me that 'kids these days' have it a lot easier than we did,
and the trend seems set to continue, AFAICT.


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....and probably weren't in the first place, either.

Which generation is that then?

 

No I think Grimly is about right. You have to add in that our western
lifestyle has been run on cheap energy AND an enormous underprivileged 3rd
world. Commodity price rises are being driven by a) speculators and b)
China & India. If Africa ever gets its act together (unlikely) it will get
even worse.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

"Too cheap to meter" kind of thing?

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in the long run, it will, because at some point, someone's going to
get commercial Fusion working. ITER's looking like a good start and
the Indians have SST-1 under way.

As an alternative to oil, for fuel-burning engines, I also reckon it's
only a matter of time before some biotech firm patents a bacteria that
can eat soil and shits alcohol.

 

Do you guys know about the Alien incursion too then?

 

I don't think Fusion will be a cheap form of energy. The running costs of
the infrastructure are likely to be rather high. Also the Greens (and local
residents) are going to run it down when they consider the consequences of a
large scale reactor magnetic containment failure.
Properly done, with good (modular) reactor design, a Fast Breeder cycle and
simple deep repository waste disposal, fission power would be quite
economical.
The designs the govmint are being rail roaded into are not promising. It
looks like basic PWR or PWR.

Putting all the theoretical arguments aside it drives me scatty that British
arguments on Nuclear power are not driven by looking 50 miles East to
France.
# over 75% of its electricity from nuclear energy.
# world's largest net exporter of electricity due to low cost of
generation, and gains over EUR3billion per year.
# The lowest cost electricity in Europe.
# Low level of CO2 emissions from electricity generation, 90% of electricity
is nuclear or hydro.

Here are some nice stats www.uic.com.au/nip28.htm

 

If you're not 45-50 years old, you're an outlier here. Seems that way,
anyway.

 

Is this actually true? I had understood that the plasma would just fizzle
out. The magnets aren't to keep the reaction in, they're to create the
conditions where it can happen.

 

Of course they keep it in. The plasma exists at temperatures far beyond the
capabilities of any material containment. Failure of the magnetic field
leads to damage of the liner material. Now Beryllium.

The actual amount of plasma material available to be released might only be
a few grammes but it contains Tritium. We must think of the children. What
happens if an aeroplane crashes into the reactor. An earthquake even. No,
the only safe solution is wind power, and Tepees, and horses.

 

self maintaining and self-powered (sort of)

where would the power come to run it? If the energy input wasn't
higher than the energy released by burning the alcohol, you've just
invented a perpetual motion machine and dis-proved the laws of
thermodynamics.

 

bollocks. I'd say the median age of ukrm posters is about 8 years
lower than that.

 

but these issues (and more) exist with Fission reactors + with Fusion
you don't end up with a load of waste that needs to be dumped in
Scarpa Flow^W^W^W^W safely contained for thousands of years[1], or
stuff that can be made into thermonuclear weapons by the towel-heads.

[1] personally, for nuclear waste, I can't see what's wrong with just
firing it into the heart of the Sun.

 

Where's "here" ?

 

Woo-hoo!

 

Duh. You're quite right.

 

is it Breakfast time yet?

 

http://www.tubelicious.com/video_IONcgYzVFlg_tag_ariane.html

 

Well, as we see a shift from burning oil to using it for sensible
things, like chemical feedstock, we will also see a wholesale shift
towards more electric/hydrogen/biofuel/whatever in our transport. I only
hope the eventual substitute for petrol and diesel is still affordable
for the majority of people.

As far as usable energy goes, well there's only really one source anyway
and it'd be utterly stupid to not develop our ability to harness it
properly - so I agree with you; as economies of scale really kick in
solar energy might get cheaper.

And we might cure AIDS in Africa this Xmas.
And we might be able to feed all the world.
And we might support 15 or 20 billion people.

Thank **** I'll be dead when the last happens.
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Need cheap energy to get it there, and there's the rub.
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