Poll: Mods, one last poll before tomorrow?
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As far as Im aware, the conservatives. They say they want to root out pointless managers and beaurocracy and give power more locally. Also they have a good reputation for business's, so if you are a hard worker and good at what you do theres more potential.
I didn't know the Greens had done so well in Brighton, be interesting to see how that pans out as the bookies have the Green Party as favourites to take their first seat in the Commons.
That said, there is an Independent standing called Leo Atreides, which is awesome
That said, there is an Independent standing called Leo Atreides, which is awesome
Yep. But not by much. Larger scale fabrication would bring costs way down, but more interest is needed.
The bubble would be the one caused by government borrowing and spending rather than encouraging enterprise that have seen the national debt more than double in 10 years.
As for VAT, all parties are considering a vat rise, because of the mess that Labour have left of the public finances.
Well that is the problem then, people are interested in getting power for the lowest price, hence resorting to nuclear energy. We don't want to pay more for energy then we already do.
it's not just cost, it is the huge redundancies required, as it can't provide base or peak loads as you can't predict it. Also needs massive national grid upgrade. It also needs the rest of Europe to come on board and a huge Europe wide national grid. These are all things we need to do. But this is not going to happen yet. We need something to fill the gap, that is nuclear.
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We need a proper matrix for energy.
Nuclear, wind, wave all have there place in the UK. What we need is more energy efficeint housing, and solar panels/small turbines on people's homes to generate there own power and have the grid as backup.
Nuclear, wind, wave all have there place in the UK. What we need is more energy efficeint housing, and solar panels/small turbines on people's homes to generate there own power and have the grid as backup.
maybe, but that doesn't mean it's cheap, get it yet?
no, you're not making any sense.
actually nuclear power is considerably cheaper than wind/solar/"wave power" simply because they're all so MISERABLY INEFFICIENT.
for example, the current highest power-per-year solar power plant is the Moura photovoltaic power station, which cost €250 million and develops (PEAK) only 46 megawatts - which means a piffling Five Million, Four Hundred Thousand Euros per SINGLE megawatt.
on the other hand, one France's up-and-coming new nuclear power plants is estimated to cost roughly four thousand million, but will develop (PEAK) 1,650 Megawatts - (1.65GW!), for a cost of only about Two million, four hundred thousand per megawatt. that's less than HALF of solar. wind fares even worse than solar, by the way.
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Of course he is. What he's saying is that just because nuclear energy may be cheaper to generate, doesn't mean it'll cost the consumer any less. Business exists to make money, n'est pas?
These businesses pay tax, so even though for consumers it doesn't directly matter, there will be more tax money to spend or less debt to pay off as a result.
Only if the state gets involved and buggers up the market forces sufficiently...
electricity is so expensive in the UK because we have to buy almost all of it from the blasted frenchies! especially when you consider how British Gas and the other energy companies raise the price of electricity about about 28 million percent every three years, how can you say that substantially cheaper generation-cost for electricity wouldn't result in a lower price for the consumers?
electricity in france costs about HALF what it costs here in the uk.
At risk of getting off-topic...
I don't know what calculations you're doing. The best measure is price/kWh or similar. How much it costs per unit energy. There are several sources for this. Wikipedia has a few and a friend of mine recently sent me this. Wind and hydro are generally cheaper/similar to nuclear. Solar is still much more expensive, which as I said before is an economies of scale thing.
I don't know what calculations you're doing. The best measure is price/kWh or similar. How much it costs per unit energy. There are several sources for this. Wikipedia has a few and a friend of mine recently sent me this. Wind and hydro are generally cheaper/similar to nuclear. Solar is still much more expensive, which as I said before is an economies of scale thing.
Most of those figures prove his point, because as they clearly state, the include subsidies.
Level the playing field and out of the non-fossil technologies, nuclear is by far the cheapest, especially given land costs for onshore windfarms in the UK.
I think I'm gonna vote for the Monster Raving Loony William Hill Party.
I like some points of their manicfesto :
Refusing to sign up to the euro, but inviting the rest of Europe to join the £ pound
Drivers can go straight over a roundabout when there's no traffic coming "to make driving through Milton Keynes more fun"
Traffic cops "too stupid" for normal police work to be retrained as vicars
Withdrawal of MPs' £118,000 expenses allowance, and the money "in future be distributed to the poor and needy so that they can waste it instead"
Any MP whose constituency sells off a school playing field for development will be required to relinquish their own back garden as a replacement sports facility for the school
All motorways to become massive cycle tracks instead
All speed cameras will be abolished and replaced by a new device fitted to cars which will automatically slow down to the speed limit when driven though an infra-red beam
The introduction of a 99p coin to "save on change"
I like some points of their manicfesto :
Refusing to sign up to the euro, but inviting the rest of Europe to join the £ pound
Drivers can go straight over a roundabout when there's no traffic coming "to make driving through Milton Keynes more fun"
Traffic cops "too stupid" for normal police work to be retrained as vicars
Withdrawal of MPs' £118,000 expenses allowance, and the money "in future be distributed to the poor and needy so that they can waste it instead"
Any MP whose constituency sells off a school playing field for development will be required to relinquish their own back garden as a replacement sports facility for the school
All motorways to become massive cycle tracks instead
All speed cameras will be abolished and replaced by a new device fitted to cars which will automatically slow down to the speed limit when driven though an infra-red beam
The introduction of a 99p coin to "save on change"
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I've just seen a story on London Tonight about some BNP candidates who were canvassing and ended up having a fight with some Asians - all captured by the BBC. Classic.
I think I'm gonna vote for the Monster Raving Loony William Hill Party.
I like some points of their manicfesto :
Refusing to sign up to the euro, but inviting the rest of Europe to join the £ pound
Drivers can go straight over a roundabout when there's no traffic coming "to make driving through Milton Keynes more fun"
Traffic cops "too stupid" for normal police work to be retrained as vicars
Withdrawal of MPs' £118,000 expenses allowance, and the money "in future be distributed to the poor and needy so that they can waste it instead"
Any MP whose constituency sells off a school playing field for development will be required to relinquish their own back garden as a replacement sports facility for the school
All motorways to become massive cycle tracks instead
All speed cameras will be abolished and replaced by a new device fitted to cars which will automatically slow down to the speed limit when driven though an infra-red beam
The introduction of a 99p coin to "save on change"
Are you serious or taking the **** ?
Half those points are completely retarded.
The clue is in the name.
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