Nighttrain writes:
Cost, as always, seems to be blocking the more adventurous ideas.
randman writes:
the issue is cost
Wrong. That's where I come in again with the argument I already stated: we are spending way too much money on the wrong things. My example was wars and weapons, and a sideline discussion on weapons ensued, but my main point was that cost itself is not the issue, it's our priorities. Apparently, there's more than enough money available, it's just that the Bushes and the Blairs of this world are making the wrong choices in what to spend it on.
Just reporting what the politicians say, Para. At present we are revisiting the nuclear vs the alternatives debate. As Q stated, until we develop a cheap source of energy (and we export something like 30 million tonnes of coal each year, mainly to China and Japan), the politicians will meander down a number of paths calling 'Cost. Cost.'
Until the shortage of water bites home, the general population will do what they always do--lay back and complain.