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Thread ID: 114026 2010-11-15 07:08:00 Nuclear Power stations in NZ - Yes or No? jareemon (5207) PC World Chat
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1153151 2010-11-16 05:55:00 The sun never goes down - the earth rotates :p Besides, I would guess that electricity consumption is a lot less at night than it is during the day, so batteries is just really a minor problem.
Quite right. They could use watch batteries, since they are proven to last two or three years each. Night would hold no terrors with this sort of thinking. ;)
R2x1 (4628)
1153152 2010-11-16 09:56:00 Quite right. They could use watch batteries, since they are proven to last two or three years each. Night would hold no terrors with this sort of thinking. ;)

R2, I think I've found you a car...
ubergeek85 (131)
1153153 2010-11-16 10:08:00 R2, I think I've found you a car...
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: (damn theres a limit to emoticons in each message?)
jareemon (5207)
1153154 2010-11-16 17:44:00 R2, I think I've found you a car...

Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't that thought up by Terry when he was on one of his walks in the Tarraruas?
Cicero (40)
1153155 2010-11-16 20:08:00 Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't that thought up by Terry when he was on one of his walks in the Tarraruas?
You're both incorrect, sorry, I invented it when I was 5.
jareemon (5207)
1153156 2010-11-17 01:05:00 The lot of you are wrong; 4chan spawned this particular pic, which founded the 'troll science' meme not too long ago. ubergeek85 (131)
1153157 2010-11-17 02:54:00 i found a 4 leaf clover once when i was 8.
wait what's this thread about again?
jareemon (5207)
1153158 2010-11-17 03:51:00 When I was with DSIR, we were always getting 'brilliant' backyard NZ inventors submitting perpetual motion designs, usually old boys in their 60s - 70s.

At one time if the inventor knew the PM of the day or the minister of science, and many did, it being a small country and having been to school together etc, then we used to get threatened by them when they were told to go away.

Eventually, there was an official edict that said we were to summarily dismiss such ideas.

There was one disgruntled inventor who bore a grudge against DSIR for not taking his water powered engine seriously, and kept bleating on for years about it on various forums. Haven't seen him lately :rolleyes:
Terry Porritt (14)
1153159 2010-11-17 21:56:00 In Australia wew have seen the greatest example of nuclear hypocracy on record.

The F/witted green tinged Luddite Labour Government will not have a bar of Nuclear Power generation in Australia because of fear of the Nuclear Bogeyman, in spite of Australia having one of the highest per capita carbon emmissions in the world because of coal fired power generation.

This same F/Witted green tinged Luddite Labour Government, has agreed to sell uranium to Russia with no strings attached, to assist them in cutting carbon emmissions by building more nuclear power stations and reduce their dependency on coal fired electricty generation.

A nice exercise in enviromental logic I agree with the sale, I disagree with continuing to burn coal to generate electricity - use coal to make synthetic liquid fuels - the Germans waged WW2 on synthetic fuel from coal, until allied bombing destroed all the manufacturing plants. ( Mind you they used unpaid labour to mine the coal)
KenESmith (6287)
1153160 2010-11-18 01:15:00 The worlds biggest single point polluter is a coal to petrol plant in South Africa. prefect (6291)
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