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On 12/05/2021 08:15, Andy Burns wrote:
RJH wrote:

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Maybe the kettle might pay for itself in 100 years, but it wont
last that long..


And if you were to scale that up by 60m-odd, that's quite a lot of energy


No, it isn't

Not compared with everything else.

As I have remarked before , Britain's total electrical generation
amounts to half a dozen Hiroshima bombs *every day*.



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