Off Topic And Now for Something Completely Different

They are certainly before my time, which started in the early Sixties. But very interesting pictures all the same. The ones of the kits (Barrels) on the back of trailers are waiting at the fish meal plant.

I worked in a trawler owner's office, but was on the market selling fish every morning. Even working like that, the fish smell never left you. The first time I went to Locarno after starting work, I was dancing with a girl, and she commented "Can you smell fish in here"? Even though I had a bath, we didn't shower in those days at home, and a fresh change of clothes, it just got into the pores on your skin and as soon as you started to sweat out it came.

 

GTA - Sheffield edition

 

GTA? More like WTF?

 

So Castro's secret is out.

 

Never mind the bollocks...

 

European scientists say they have made a major breakthrough in their quest to develop practical nuclear fusion - the energy process that powers the stars.

The UK-based JET laboratory has smashed its own world record for the amount of energy it can extract by squeezing together two forms of hydrogen.

If nuclear fusion can be successfully recreated on Earth it holds out the potential of virtually unlimited supplies of low-carbon, low-radiation energy.

The experiments produced 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds (11 megawatts of power).

This is more than double what was achieved in similar tests back in 1997.

It's not a massive energy output - only enough to boil about 60 kettles' worth of water. But the significance is that it validates design choices that have been made for an even bigger fusion reactor now being constructed in France.


"The JET experiments put us a step closer to fusion power," said Dr Joe Milnes, the head of operations at the reactor lab. "We've demonstrated that we can create a mini star inside of our machine and hold it there for five seconds and get high performance, which really takes us into a new realm."

 

After checking his eyesight, and confirming exactly what he still is...Dominic Cummins has been banging on about this as a missed opportunity in the UK for a while

 

They were discussing this on Burnsy recently, some mention of an area being identified as suitable near Scunny for some reason for development of it (missed the beginning of it). The bloke talking about it was getting exasperated trying to explain the difference between fusion and fission to various greens, nimbys and others going on about a Chernobyl in their backyard.

 

No idea who any of them apart from DC are...or whether there is any merit in what they're saying mind you

 

It was funded by the government to the tune of £750m

 

It'd be a world changer if it ever came to anything, so well worth the investment.

It's a long standing joke in those communities that fusion is only 30 years away. Every time there's a breakthrough, it simply reveals the next set of equally complex issues that hadn't been previously thought of, so the clock resets to 30 years. Even the latest 'success' took more energy to produce than it can create, even for the 5 minutes to generate 60 boiling domestic kettles worth.

Cummings is just a nob trying to seem relevant. He's a charmless Alistair Campbell, and barely worth reading his thoughts, and he knows only two well that his claims of missing the progress for the last two years are total bullshit, as even a simple search would flag up their involvement.

 

A charmless Alastair Campbell? Campbell has charm?

 

It's a sign of how low the bar is.

 

“Charmless Alastair Campbell”
Excellent description
I wasn’t suggesting he was right. I’d just noticed the same thing popping up from him.