It doesn't. What it means is cutting through a lot of big parcels whose owners have big money, so they can be big impediments. There has to be a happier medium than this between respect for individual private property ownership and the needs of the many, but we are clearly uninterested in finding it in this country.

Are you unready or ill equipped for the conversation about making them not stab-happy in the first place? Because you leapt rapidly to throwing away the key.

Oh look, a one-issue sock puppet has shown up to Charlie Kirk the discussion.

So then the hard part is creating the reactors which don't exist, as usual. It's a weakness shared by literally every proposed SMR project.

That's not what "native" means.

Who invented pluggable file formats anyway? The first place I experienced it was AmigaOS 2.0. NeXTStep had reusable controls but AFAIK it didn't provide formats to all installed applications.

I really wish them luck, but there have been so many false dawn's on fusion...

The problem with fusion is that until someone demonstrates a practical way to sustain it and produce energy, it's probably not going to get the kind of funding needed to demonstrate a practical way to sustain it and produce energy. At least not in less than several decades, and we don't have that long.

Like fossil fuels and nuclear, it is competing for funding with renewables. Renewables are mature, are cheap, and the market is growing. Because we are all capitalist societies, that's the only way we can address climate change.

I'd love to see fusion reactors in my lifetime, but nobody has a path to them that isn't full of huge challenges and unknowns.

It's not necessarily dangerous. We can start small, and anything you put up to block the sun is going to be pushed away from it by the pressure of the photons, or you can stick it in a decaying orbit so it has a limited lifespan.

As long as it is designed to have a limited lifespan and clear itself out naturally, like the tens of thousands of LEO satellites we are throwing up now without much care, the damage that can be done is negligible. Once proven safe we can look at scaling it up, in a way that means if we stop replenishing it, it just goes away by itself after a while.

The cost of electricity in the UK is dictated by gas prices, and despite having our own North Sea gas we pay the international market rate. That went up when Putin started his war in Ukraine. The faster we get off gas, the sooner the bills can come down.

Before then we really need to break the link between gas prices and electricity prices. Currently the way the auction works, everyone gets paid the amount offered to gas generators (nuclear has a special deal that is insanely expensive but doesn't set a price floor).

We don't have to make everything domestically. It would be nice, but right now we should just import the turbines we need and get them deployed. The climate can't wait, and we shouldn't wait to start raking in that cash.

Hmm, I think that book has been discredited. Either way, there is a massive amount of wind energy available to the UK. We have the best wind resources in Europe, we could be raking it in from exports.

We should have a sovereign wealth fund based on wind power.

The whole point of dark energy is to explain why the cosmos is expanding more than it theoretically should be. If it isn't, then you don't need dark energy, or if it isn't expanding as much as formerly believed then you don't need as much of it.

yes, actually yes. I would do it differently though, I would use sodium and burn it in water to create the particulate matter, this would accomplish more than one goal, it would block a percentage point of the Solar energy and would percipitate into the ocean water deacidifying it. If done xorrectly, maybe as NaK alloy it can also be used to generate power while burning in water.

no, the goal is keeping power and gaining glory by restoring the old ussr back and then some. The fact that it is done by using the criminal element as well as the regular army just shows how unprepared the dictator is.

https://claverton-energy.com/t...

It's actually much more than 20x for just all available offshore wind, but if you restrict it to just the most economically viable parts and including onshore, it works out at around 20x. I've lost the reference I had for that.