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it takes the news away from BJ, that's all that matters.

it would be his own jail. could he designate his home as HMP?

assuming the police enquiry would not take very long and Charles still wants to submit himself to common laws, the most he would incur is a fine. Don't you think?

he could pay a fine of £50. Punishment of abuses in connection with the grant of honours. (1)If any person accepts or obtains or agrees to accept or attempts to obtain from any person, for himself or for any other person, or for any purpose, any gift, money or valuable consideration as an...

the original text: The company develops equipment for nuclear fusion reactors, including a key device that effectively collects heat with a temperature of over 100 million degrees Celsius. should have the word 'with' (a temperature) replaced by the word 'at'. In tokamaks, the D-D fusion...

fusion technology is still not really investable for some time yet.

there is no reason to think that fusion plants are going to be immense. We found a few ways of making fusion happen, some methods need large installations like ICF or tokamak, some don't like lattice confinement fusion. The danger is in putting such powerful technology into the brain of an...

I suppose the rule of thumb is we double the output and confinement time every decade or so. At this rate, it should be there in about a century or two, not much time for the human species to evolve.

The biggest obstacle is confinement of the very hot and unstable plasma. Maybe we should take the next tokamak into space. China has a much bigger stake in fusion because of the amount they spend of imported oil and gas. Their achievements are usually ignored by Western media. I reckon they will...

I wonder how long he's going to last in his new head of comms post.

I think the reason why the EU is softer with Russian's point of view is because we, via the OSCE, co-signed the Minsk Protocols in 2014 then in 2015. Since then, NATO continues to build up its presence in the Black Sea, around Crimea, Ukraine and Moldova. Ukraine started to implement the Minsk...

I think he knows how damaging an economic war with the West will be for Russia. Their economy is relatively small, if the USA imposes economic sanctions, Russia will have to rely nearly 100% on China for their external trade.

apparently, NATO promised Ukraine and Georgia full membership since 2008. In 2019, Ukraine made joining NATO its strategic goal. You can see why Putin has to do something.

Lavrov has a point. That's basic geography and Truss came unprepared.

competition between producers leads usually to lower price, competition between resellers leads to a race to the bottom. Most of those 70 companies are resellers, not generators. The current situation arrives because we don't produce much and rely overly on imports.

I think they are too optimistic. ITER (the one in Cadarache) won't come to full operation until 2050 and the target is to maintain fusion for 7 minutes.

the problem is engineering which progresses much more slowly than other sciences. JET's tokamak suffers from having its magnet overheating, otherwise it can do much better than keeping the plasma stable for only 5 seconds. It took people at the JET project 20 years to go from keeping the plasma...

instead of a windfall tax, I would my suggestion to Labour is to invest in a national energy storage grid. it will increasingly become a key energy provider and the profit could be used to offset spikes in international market prices. Ordinary people can understand this strategy.

customers are encouraged to switch suppliers to escape rip-offs. The consequence of that is a plethora of marketing companies selling themselves as energy providers, short termed investors looking for a quick buck without any industrial capabilities. Nobody wants to look after the storage...

that's the consequence of privatisation of British Gas, National Power and Powergen. We now have the law of the jungle. Our government is so lazy that they subcontract out the tax collecting to private firms, they have no interest in controlling price rise. When France caps the price hike to 4%...