| Sizewell C 20:01 - Jun 10 with 3451 views | OldFart71 |
The Government has pledged 14.2 billion for Sizewell C and that will cut bills in 10 years time. At least I know I will be warm by then. Those bloody crematoriums don't half throw out some heat. |  | | |  |
| Sizewell C on 20:02 - Jun 10 with 2206 views | J2BLUE |
The world will continue after you are gone. |  |
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| Sizewell C on 20:06 - Jun 10 with 2172 views | mellowblue |
In 10 Years whoever is saying that won't be around to be questioned. They will have moved on. | | | |
| Sizewell C on 20:07 - Jun 10 with 2164 views | BloomBlue |
Wtf 10 years???
I see those Suffolk builders haven't improved their performance over the years |  | | |
| Sizewell C on 20:11 - Jun 10 with 2159 views | BlueBadger |
This is a very weird way of saying 'I'm glad to see we're making a token effort to ensure that my grandchildren might have a habitable world to love in'. |  |
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| Sizewell C on 20:11 - Jun 10 with 2158 views | SitfcB |
All the people that were moaning about it on Anglia News this evening will all be dead by then as well so not sure why they’re wasting the energy they have left. |  |
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| Sizewell C on 20:46 - Jun 10 with 1986 views | EdwardStone |
In 10 years time renewables and battery storage will be way cheaper than nuclear
And we will still be paying squillions for a giant polluting white elephant with toxic levels of radioactivity that will blight us for the next 2500 years
The great dream of cheap nuclear power was always just a fantasy.... "Too Cheap To Meter" was the dream
"Too Expensive to Contemplate" is the sad reality |  | | |
| Sizewell C on 21:13 - Jun 10 with 1907 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Sizewell C on 20:02 - Jun 10 by J2BLUE |
The world will continue after you are gone. |
As will the life span of the radioactive waste produced. |  |
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| Sizewell C on 21:15 - Jun 10 with 1896 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Sizewell C on 20:46 - Jun 10 by EdwardStone |
In 10 years time renewables and battery storage will be way cheaper than nuclear
And we will still be paying squillions for a giant polluting white elephant with toxic levels of radioactivity that will blight us for the next 2500 years
The great dream of cheap nuclear power was always just a fantasy.... "Too Cheap To Meter" was the dream
"Too Expensive to Contemplate" is the sad reality |
Every government needs its HS2. | |
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| Sizewell C on 21:22 - Jun 10 with 1872 views | J2BLUE |
| Sizewell C on 21:13 - Jun 10 by BanksterDebtSlave |
As will the life span of the radioactive waste produced. |
What is your preferred clean energy source? | |
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| Sizewell C on 21:28 - Jun 10 with 1851 views | Swansea_Blue |
I’d be very surprised if it leads to lower bills. You often see competitive comparisons with other forms of energy generation, but check whether treatment and disposal of the waste is included. It often isn’t because we just store it in lieu of not really knowing what to do with it.
Having said that, it’s reasonably reliable normally (although France have had some bad years lately due to shutdowns due to corrosion issues, but that shouldn’t happen in newer plants), has zero emissions bar construction footprint and would provide good energy security.
It seems to be needed. |  |
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| Sizewell C on 22:16 - Jun 10 with 1765 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Sizewell C on 21:22 - Jun 10 by J2BLUE |
What is your preferred clean energy source? |
To make less unnecessary rubbish and essentially use a whole lot less energy on nonsense like 'clouds' and A.I. firstly and then solar, wind and wave. | |
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| Sizewell C on 22:42 - Jun 10 with 1707 views | mellowblue |
| Sizewell C on 20:46 - Jun 10 by EdwardStone |
In 10 years time renewables and battery storage will be way cheaper than nuclear
And we will still be paying squillions for a giant polluting white elephant with toxic levels of radioactivity that will blight us for the next 2500 years
The great dream of cheap nuclear power was always just a fantasy.... "Too Cheap To Meter" was the dream
"Too Expensive to Contemplate" is the sad reality |
not to mention the huge cost of eventual decommissioning | | | |
| Sizewell C on 23:21 - Jun 10 with 1635 views | stonojnr |
| Sizewell C on 21:22 - Jun 10 by J2BLUE |
What is your preferred clean energy source? |
zero point energy, its all Tesla | | | |
| Sizewell C on 23:21 - Jun 10 with 1635 views | JimmyJazz |
In the meantime there will be a new charge on bills to pay for the power station |  |
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| Sizewell C on 07:56 - Jun 11 with 1426 views | chicoazul |
| Sizewell C on 22:16 - Jun 10 by BanksterDebtSlave |
To make less unnecessary rubbish and essentially use a whole lot less energy on nonsense like 'clouds' and A.I. firstly and then solar, wind and wave. |
It’s funny how many avowedly left wing people are so conservative when it comes to energy, transport, infrastructure etc |  |
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| Sizewell C on 08:06 - Jun 11 with 1398 views | DJR |
| Sizewell C on 08:03 - Jun 11 by chicoazul |
Labour literally told everyone in the election they didn’t care about protections or local planning or the opinions of local people and would build anyway. If you voted for them, that’s what you voted for. |
Not me guv. [Post edited 11 Jun 8:08]
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| Sizewell C on 08:14 - Jun 11 with 1363 views | blueasfook |
| Sizewell C on 22:16 - Jun 10 by BanksterDebtSlave |
To make less unnecessary rubbish and essentially use a whole lot less energy on nonsense like 'clouds' and A.I. firstly and then solar, wind and wave. |
The irony of bemoaning the power consumption of technology on an Internet forum. |  |
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| Sizewell C on 08:14 - Jun 11 with 1360 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Sizewell C on 22:16 - Jun 10 by BanksterDebtSlave |
To make less unnecessary rubbish and essentially use a whole lot less energy on nonsense like 'clouds' and A.I. firstly and then solar, wind and wave. |
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/10/whats-behind-keir-starmers-d
What do big tech companies have to do with it?
Driving Britain’s nuclear renaissance is the tech industry’s appetite for nuclear power. Starmer unveiled plans for a once-in-a-generation nuclear expansion earlier this year alongside an open invitation to tech companies such as Google, Meta and Amazon to invest in AI datacentres in Britain, which could be powered by small modular reactors.
This is because the world’s biggest tech companies are investing in extending the life of nuclear plants and building small modular reactors to help meet the enormous power demands of their datacentres. This growing demand is expected to accelerate with the adoption of artificial intelligence.
This is because the world’s biggest tech companies are investing in extending the life of nuclear plants and building small modular reactors to help meet the enormous power demands of their datacentres. This growing demand is expected to accelerate with the adoption of artificial intelligence.
Earlier this month Meta struck a deal to keep one nuclear reactor of a US utility company in Illinois operating for an extra 20 years, to help supply the company’s datacentres with low-carbon power. It follows a similar deal from Google to supply its datacentres with nuclear power from half a dozen small reactors built by a California utility company. Microsoft has paid for the restart of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, the site of the most serious nuclear accident and radiation leak in US history.
“They are very keen to get the datacentres in and they’re very alive to the fact that the power is a big issue,” Starmer said. | |
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| Sizewell C on 08:18 - Jun 11 with 1301 views | bluelagos |
| Sizewell C on 08:14 - Jun 11 by blueasfook |
The irony of bemoaning the power consumption of technology on an Internet forum. |
Doesn't make him wrong though does it? |  |
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| Sizewell C on 08:23 - Jun 11 with 1255 views | blueasfook |
| Sizewell C on 08:18 - Jun 11 by bluelagos |
Doesn't make him wrong though does it? |
So we should stop technological development? Cloud is mostly replacing on premise infrastructure so the power consumption is just transferring from offices and buildings to centralised data centres. | |
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| Sizewell C on 08:37 - Jun 11 with 1194 views | bluelagos |
| Sizewell C on 08:23 - Jun 11 by blueasfook |
So we should stop technological development? Cloud is mostly replacing on premise infrastructure so the power consumption is just transferring from offices and buildings to centralised data centres. |
We should definitely look to limit our consumption of unnecessary sh1te to help limit the environmental damage we are doing.
Whether that is online, the latest fashion or just buying cr*p we don't need is a mute point.
I wouldn't especially target the cloud or any other technology - am not a luddite (although am crp with technology) - but I do have an issue with over consumption, absolutely. | |
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| Sizewell C on 08:38 - Jun 11 with 1185 views | OldFart71 |
| Sizewell C on 20:02 - Jun 10 by J2BLUE |
The world will continue after you are gone. |
I have little doubt. I have never been so assuming that I am but a small fry in a very large pond. | | | |
| Sizewell C on 08:47 - Jun 11 with 1129 views | tcblue |
| Sizewell C on 07:56 - Jun 11 by chicoazul |
It’s funny how many avowedly left wing people are so conservative when it comes to energy, transport, infrastructure etc |
Not to mention the technology which has the potential to enable a society where UBI is a thing | | | |
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