On 13/08/14 14:01, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:45:22 +0200, A. Lurker wrote:

The Natural Philosopher wrote hastily:

Its more fairy dust mate. Forget it.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
Lord Kelvin, ca. 1895

There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever be
obtainable.
Albert Einstein, 1932.

"When a respected and learned scientist says something is possible, he is
more than likely right. When a respected and learned scientist says
something is impossible he is almost more than likely wrong."


I am however an engineer.

And I am not talking about possibilities.

I am talking about cost benefit ratios and environmental impact.

Its POSSIBLE to do many many things that are absolutely not worth doing.
Cars with square wheels are possible, with suitable active suspension to
keep the car body stable and suitable couplings to prevent longitudinal
stresses. Its just a such **** shape for wheel that no one has bothered.

An engineer is someone who can do for five bob what any damned fool can
do for a quid, or which a green can't do reliably for 50 quid.

If you want reliable dispatchable power the cheapest way is to burn
fossil fuel and the second cheapest is to 'burn' nuclear fuel.

There is no point in doing te rest if your actual aim is to generate
cost-effective life giving energy for human consumption.

All the rest is a complete fraud on the public who have to pay for these
extravagant cosmic political solutions that fail to solve a problem that
is looking increasingly as if it doesn't even exist.


This year, it's more than halfway through the hurricane season and we
are up to B for Bertha, and that did **** all.

Signs of a cooling globe.



Arthur C Clarke.



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Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for the
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