Despite J K Rowling being a terf lol

Am I out of touch? No! Everyone is a fucking transphobe!

I work with boomers that were given everything, house with the job or a council house and the right to buy, final salary pensions, free education, free prescriptions, publicly owned utilities, a path to progress up the pay scale and they voted it all away when it was my generations turn to benefit.

Plenty of money for their generation, but now it’s our turn and suddenly the money is gone. This is the generation that struts about telling us that we don’t know how good we have it, sitting in their paid off houses that cost 3-5x the average salary whilst we pay £1000pm to the slumlord, triple locked pensions whilst we suffer real term pay cuts.

There’s never been a greedier, more selfish, entitled generation than the boomers. The first generation in history to leave the world worse off than when they inherited it.

Fuck them.

Who cares? I just need to get the construction in under budget so that I can get my end of year bonus, this will all be some other idiots problem soon enough.

Another pile of shit that we’ve inherited from fucking boomers who’ve failed to invest adequately in their children’s futures because they were more interested in a quick buck for themselves. The most entitled generation in human history and the first to leave the planet in a worse stat than which they found it in.

The Torygraph is propaganda

A lot of people here still using Reddit. Such a shame.

The world would be a better place if people were willing to put their money where their mouth is. You’re no better than the people that hate Elon Musk but refuse to leave X.

If we’re going to talk to eachother like we’re cunts;

I wish I could return to a time where I was so naive, the world was a magical place!

I’ll ask again since you avoided the question. Do you have any idea how much lifted weight would be required to power a nation through a few days of no wind?!

Hint: A metric shit tonne would not even be a scratch on the required amount. Where are you going to source that sort of weight, leave alone infrastructure required to repeatedly lift and lower it?

I’ll tell you once again, I’m well aware of hydro pumped storage, its abilities and its short comings. I work as an electrician on a hydro scheme, FFS, you dumb twat.

A weight you could lift and drop to power your own house alone through a few days of no power in itself would be an extremely impressive system and you want to power every house in the nation and all its industry with that concept? It’s time to get a grip on reality and share what ever drug you’re on with me because its obviously some really good shit.

I honestly think the weight lifting and dropping idea is pipe dream stuff. It’s good on a black board but near impossible to implement practically in real life.

Can you imagine how much stored weight we’d need to cover the energy demands of a nation given a few days of no wind?

You need to ask yourself why, if these ideas are so great, have they not already been implemented.

Did I call a lot of people brainwashed?

So you don’t mind radioactivity in the air you breathe around the power stations, but when it’s buried deep inside a mountain it bothers you?

I understand pumped storage well. The problem with it is the required size of the reservoirs and the availability of suitable locations.

Pumped storage as it stands in the UK is really very useful for managing dips and spikes in power demand but unfortunately far, far short of being able to get us through a day or two of no wind.

Yh solar and wind is better, until it’s night time and the wind is still.

Until mass power storage is a solved problem we need base load power the demand of which can currently only be met by fossil fuels or nuclear.

Honestly, saying “yh, but wind and solar!?!?” whilst clearly having very little concept of the power demands of a nation makes you seem extremely silly.

A coal power station belches far more radioactive contaminants in to the atmosphere than any nuclear power station.

Wind and solar aren’t ready, that’s the whole point! They’re great when it’s windy and sunny, but useless when it’s still and night time. Until mass power storage is a solved problem, wind and solar are unable to provide the base load power that can be provided by fossil fuel/nuclear power stations needed by advanced nations.

Don’t you love it when you get heavily downvoted but no-one is brave enough to challenge your point of view?

I mostly agree with you. Solar is good if you own a house, with a roof and have thousands in disposable cash to invest, but that’s not most people.

Heat pumps can’t be run on your solar power alone and if your house isn’t well insulated, they can be extremely inefficient, ending up costing you substantially more than sticking with gas or oil. And that’s not getting in to the other short comings of heat pumps which I believe is a separate debate.

As many people in this thread have said, the best time to invest in nuclear was thirty years ago, but the next best time is now. Give us tonnes of cheap, carbon free electricity to throw in to a heat pump and then they make sense.

I think it’s fine to think of it as imperfect, even if those imperfections can never be truly solved.

We only need nuclear to bridge the gap between now and a time when renewable CO2 neutral power sources or the holy grail of fusion are able to take the place the base load power that we currently use fossil fuels for, and with hope, that may only be a few decades away.

I find the whole situation rather amusing.

So many people on “X” apparently hate Elon and yet they refuse to leave the platform. It’s pathetic.

The world would be a better place if the average man had a backbone.

I think that the media is controlled by people that are extremely wealthy, not just bankers and that some of them being Jewish has nothing to do with it.

Right.

This assassination wasn’t revenge, it was a threat, to anyone else that might be thinking about a coup.

That’s absolutely not what I’m saying.

I’m saying that if we all clean up after ourselves, this situation never happens, it’s nicer for everyone and there is simply no need to clear up after someone else.

Lmgtfy:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-national-minimum-wage-in-2023/the-national-minimum-wage-in-2023

In Britain, if you take something off the shelf and then decide you don’t want it, you put it back rather than just dropping it on the floor.

Despite their being no punishment for being a dirty, lazy bastard. Nor a reward for being tidy and considerate for the people that come after you, it’s basic self governance that makes things nicer for everyone.