"tim..." wrote in message news


"Huge" wrote in message
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On 2016-12-27, tim... wrote:
Billed as "energy for the future"

I was expecting an exposé of all of the new technology that is coming on
stream in the next 20 years

What "new technology"?

I dunno, it's not my professional field so I was hoping to learn about new stuff.

For example, there are supposed to be some new battery technologies that are a couple
of orders of magnitude better than currently available.


But rather than read up on them in "The New Scientist" or similar, or check them
out for yourself in Wikipaedia, you held back hoping that there'd be a TV programme
about them over Christmas ? I see.

TV nowadays is primarily for entertainment; they even scrapped
OU broadcasts years ago. Either pure entertainment or presenting
information in an entertaining way largely for an audience
who otherwise wouldn't go out of their way to research this
material for themselves.

What it isn't designed for is people who are already familiar
with a topic and who expect, for some unaccountable reason
to actually learn something new. Or maybe they just like
to show off ?