wewbull

Which app is that and why is 22:30 not blue?

You don't give up ever.

You pursue a better solution whenever one presents itself.

I can give you √2 which is 16-bits of information as characters. It's also an irrational number. How you express something doesn't change the amount of information is contained in the message.

Falling back to the level they were before the 2008 financial crisis isn't indicative of the technology advancing and a general downward trend. It's just the market normalising.

If we had been not investing in nuclear plants only whilst costs were sky high I'd think you'd have an argument, but we've been avoiding nuclear investments for a lot longer than that.

Agreed.

Doesn't sound too bad when you consider it's 400 miles London to Edinburgh. Obviously it's not going to be just in one line, but it's not like it's going to be everywhere either.

Ok, good. My humour detector must need a recharge.

To get the originals mater back would be a violation, but you'd get something out. Just less and less each time round. That's what I thought you were suggesting. Even that is fantasy for now.

I saw north of 22 GW this morning, about 10am.

I remember going to Auckland in the 90s and being amazed how low everything was considering it's size. Wellington was vertical. Auckland was horizontal.

At least, that's how it felt.

That's currently science fiction.

Because cost of megawatt-hour via nuclear power plant decreases every year. EVERY YEAR.

Nothing in that table is dropping every year.

Capital cost spiked a decade ago, and are now still higher than 2002 levels. Fuel spiked at a similar time and is now back to 2004 levels (but not as low as 2007). Similar story for operating costs.

Basically it looks like 2008 sent nuclear cost through the roof, and it's only just recovering to start of the century prices.

Why would they be more financially viable now?