Other Means

*looks up flights to Virginia*

So it goes on

Isn't that the point of all this though? To move all our energy to a carbon neutral source? And to do that we'll need to go nuke and revamp the national grid for the extra capacity. It's no use moving electrical generation to a neutral source when the main culprit is still using oil. TBH, I'm more bothered about energy security than global warming but what ever gets it done. As you say, it won't be cheap but what are the options? We could all sit round in our yurts knitting our own yoghurt but I don't think my 50" plasma would stick on the wall.

Baseload? Do you mean it's not off and on-able? Doesn't seem much of a downside really. We could ship power over the channel and ship it back, or make giant space lasers and put on kewl light shows. The pattern of demand will change significantly if we all have to move to electrical transport - not just peaks in the rush hours but whenever we want to charge the buggers so we could use that to regulate demand, as touched on in the first article. I don't see a downside to nooclear really.

Pro Evo Soccer on the Wii has taken up far too much of my time. Might not be everyone's thang, but I like it.

OIC, it must be a set width then and my crappy work monitor shows it in all its 80 column (?) glory. Can you have it proportional to the page width?

Moon - love the wider box. Any chance of having it start longer too? Link to Google. Hmm, seems longer winded than it needs to be but still, at least we can do it.

Convinced?

I say it was.

So it begins

Oh so close!

Nicely done

Love it. (10 characters min limit sux)

To reduce server load for the search terms. For the minimum char i/p - I have no idea. If possible, could we also change the text entry box to be wider? It seems like it's the one bad thing from the old system that's been carried over, and yes I know you can make it longer but why have it so narrow anyway? And the "make box longer arrow" (top right by the A/A) gets forgotten. BTW how do we give URLs a label? Not to say I don't like the new system, just getting used to things. {edit - Moon got there first - HEY, the text box for editing your posts is much better, would be better still if it stayed long}

Yup. The same publication also had this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/03/wind_power_needs_dirty_pricey_gas_backup_report/ Which says that wind power is basically gas power with wind to help, as there are large country - and Europe - wide wind lulls that would mean the slack would have to be taken up with gas turbines, and due to them being used less would be built worse to be economical, leading to more emissions. I'm nuke all the way. As the first link says, it's dangerous, but not infinitely dangerous.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/20/mackay_on_carbon_free_uk/ I was going to post the content but the new forum doesn't allow posts above 100000 characters. Give it a read through, well worth it.

I agree, the new ones lack character.

Moon, it only allows you to enter 10000(0?) words per post. I exceeded this straight away, god knows what JasonC is going to do. IMHO it needs to be at least 3 times the current limit, if not an order of magnitude more. The minimum post length and minimum search string lengths are both a PITA, i.e. searching for LOS or posting a pithy remark. Any chance of changing?

Christ, she must be hard up.

I feel like I'm treated like a child when a swearing filter is on. I really don't like them. If I can't say ғuck what can I say?

I didn't know she was a member.

So I went the doctor the other day...she said I had to stop masturbating. Apparently "It makes it hard to examine you". What do they teach these people in med school?

And Madonna plays gently in the background...

Been a long time in the outer darkness.

How do you explain Secondbrooks findings then?