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JoePai

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  1. 14 minutes ago, glegolo18 said:

    I do not wish to "rain on your british parade". But if you like to know that we in Sweden and probably the rest of the scandinavian countries, have something we call a "Bank ID", which is downloaded into our computers or mobile phones.

     

    For me, I go directly to the Retirement-department online and identify myself with my Bank ID and directly within one second I have done my yearly Life-certificate....

     

    Maybe you guys should try to influence your country to come into the modern world????

    I know this do not help you, but at least show you that another world is existing out there..

    Sorry, the UK cannot afford that

  2. 22 minutes ago, doctormann said:

    I heard 25 years - and that was back in 1962 when the Harwell Research Lab in the UK thought that they had it cracked with 'Zeta'.  Turned out that what they thought was a fusion event wasn't.  

     

    Still 25 years away from a commercially viable fusion reactor, it seems.  The trick is not only to initiate a stable plasma but to actually get a sustainable net energy gain.  There are alternatives to the Tokamak approach but little progress has been made with those.

     

    It will be great if they eventually get fusion to work but, unfortunately, I won't be here to see it.

    Back in the '80s we supplied materials to the JET project over at Culham and they were often '10 years away'

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