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Build a few more millennium domes and offer to host the Olympics a couple more times.
£75Bn to invest what would you do
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Soldato
cocaine, mustard and probably pancakes, I think we are suffering from a pancake drought in the UK.
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Invest it in science and technology research.
Maybe just try and perfect fusion. Then watch the money roll in as you sell it around the world.
Maybe just try and perfect fusion. Then watch the money roll in as you sell it around the world.
Soldato
Fund my own bid for universal domination!
Soldato
Monorail, monorail, monorail.
Or more likely renewable energy, nuclear power, HSR and roads. Some bridges, tunnels and airports.
Make our carriers nuclear power?
Or more likely renewable energy, nuclear power, HSR and roads. Some bridges, tunnels and airports.
Make our carriers nuclear power?
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Iirc correctly that's the Russia space program for the next 15 years lol
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only £5 billion to the police and education yet £10bn on crap like high speed rail (money pit), airports (why?) and housing (for who exactly? single mothers with 5 kids?)
the government shouldn't need to spend a single penny on rail or energy all they need to do is force the energy companies, car companies, rail companies etc to spend at least 25% of their profits on more efficient or environmentally friendly technologies.
schools are doing fine, more and more people pass with higher grades every year.
it would be better to pick one or two things and give them all the money instead of spreading it so thin where it makes next to zero impact.
i would say 50 billion to hospitals and 25 billion to the police/prison service.
that way we could make more hospitals, which means more jobs, make more prisons so we dont need to hand out smaller sentences due to over crowding and make more jobs too.
the more jobs that are created the better, as the government will then earn more in taxes.
Soldato
Invest heavily in renewable energy and creating an infrastructure for electric vehicles to replace petrol ones.
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solar panels would be better no?
It would be enough for 25% of house holds to be fitted with pv, each generating more or less enough to supply the home.
Soldato
Fusion investment for research would be more sensible than fission. Even though Thorium is fairly abundant, fission reactions produce waste that has to be stored, and resources (fuels like Uranium, Thorium) will eventually become more difficult to source. Fusion doesn't have these problems in the same scale but still isn't mastered.
Not sure more funding would get us there much faster. It's working as per models and it's already planned and building towards commercial station. It's just time to build and test.
Soldato
I thought that the current tests saw input energy still higher than output yield?
(I actually went to the Tokamak at JET a few years ago, amazing stuff http://www.jet.efda.org/ )
Solar panels just don't work as well in the UK as they would in somewhere like Egypt though, we don't get enough sun, the is a place down the road from me that has the largest photovoltaic wall in Europe (or at least it did when built) and its rubbish, they have to pay people to clean it annually because we don't get enough rain to do it and the power generated cannot even heat the building.
You do get enough sun in the uk, to be commercially viable. More myths made up by people and beloved. Solar pv even in England works well and pays for itself well within the lifetime of the panels.
The dramatic increases in funding in the past in health and policing etc suggest that money isn't the reason these services are poor.
If you want to create sustainable jobs, you invest in infrastructure and private companies, not more public sector pork-barrel spending.