Sea water contains both Uranium and Tritium, caused by NATURE. Providing the mix is done sufficiently slowly the Tritium will go below a measurable threshold. The important lesson learned is that it is not a good idea to use water as a primary coolant. Very high temperature reactors use Helium, which makes them safer than water reactors.

1. an office unit, it will be a monopoly but it could port to other platforms and make more money ? Microsoft turned it into a monopoly by levering its OS-dominance 2. an exchange-active directory unit, it will be a monopoly but it could port to other platforms and make more money ? Microsoft turned it into a monopoly by levering its OS-dominance 3..an OS division, it will become a "nearly" monopoly ? 4. a database division, it could port to other platforms and make more money ? 5. a games division, it will soon die, its not profitable ? After all games never managed to become a monopoly, because Microsoft did not have another product it could leverage.

The charts do not demonstrate the total cost to the consumer. There is only one way to determine this cost, look at the wholesale electricity price, this can be found here (coupled to the German market): http://belpex.be/marketdata/dam/public/images/CWE-MCP-Chart-FP-Big.html you can see the price is dropping when the sun is shining. Solar is being subsidised as the holy grail. Even the government cannot continue to swim against these market currents. It is better to look at alternatives like gas-(or wood pellet)-cogeneration, saves large amounts of CO2, this has at least got some flexibility in it, and it can be produced during "expensive periods". Wholesale prices have a lower boundary at +- 17-20 Euro per Mega Watt hour, an upper boundary of +- 60. Have a look at your bill and tell me "what explains the difference ??". This is all about excessive overhead in ex-government monopolies with some juice of unrealistic greenery on top. Nothing to see with a technical solution.

Actually using a patent is an important condition for claiming ownership. Has this patent been used anywhere else ?? Looking at the size of the company and incorporation it hasn't been used anywhere else, or do I get this wrong ?? Maybe there is a history of how this company acquired this patent ?? Being able to demonstrate use should be the first conditions for attacking bigger (other) parties. If it has not been used elsewhere (if other people did not cough up any money during the first 17 years of its existence), this is a troll. So I (not a lawyer) would ignore this and sleep well, this looks like spam.

The ROI should be justifiable by the data on this website: http://belpex.be/index.php?id=5 Electricity prices rise and fall during the day, between high and low values. The interview talks about 300 MW of power inside the island. During a total of 3 Hours every day, two times 1.5 hours per day. How much return for the invested energy, is this at 100 % or maybe only 80 % or 40 % "Dredgers" should be facing some return for their investment like this. Not enough parameters to make a full scale bet I would say. Right now wind energy is increasing the spread on the Belpex prices. How much lower will the spread become if the "island" is introduced, are there other technologies to achieve the same??

Couple of years ago the nearby town of Knokke was trying to build a yacht-harbour and build a similar construction along the Zeebrugge harbour. Their intention was to finance the needed dike by selling premium apartments (with a premium sea-view). They could never convince the politicians, public and the investors together. Maybe the socialist Vande Lanotte should look at raising some "different" money for raising money for his "green" idea ?

In the past the same Belgian legal system had great difficulty with persistent individual offenders, having hard proof in its hands. This time it is fighting against an organised group, with good funding, myself I do not recall of any success in similar situations. Most likely numerous appeals, postponements and procedure battles will follow. My personal guestimate is that the European court of human rights is minimum 5 years away from today. Lets pray the Belgian courts have got some pride and boy-scouts left, as this did sometimes work in the past.

Must be something cultural ?? Would prefer to return to the content of the discussion

Myself I was really under the impression this was available everywhere. Have been developing something to use this for a while now : https://www.tunz.com/ Operates as a Belgian bank There is more in other EU countries. Maybe should have reported this about two years back, my offence, not an active poster, only a slashdot reader. Many apologies.