In todays news...

[Ant]

https://www.politico.eu/article/mep-kai ... s-reports/

There's that EU who we'll crumble without.......

[Horse]

https://www.politico.eu/article/mep-kai ... s-reports/

There's that EU who we'll crumble without.......

Yup, imagine what could have happened if they'd been sorting PPE during covid

[JackyJoll]

Yes, but only on holiday and only ever on a motorcycle.

I’d say that still counts.

[KungFooBob]

Exciting times!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63950962

Maybe Nuclear Fusion isn't always 30 years away.

[Ant]

Exciting times!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63950962

Maybe Nuclear Fusion isn't always 30 years away.

Let's hope it doesn't get in the public hands and any trade unions, it'll take hundreds of years if it does....

[Yorick]

I bet this was scary. Once your 25 miles from here, you're stuffed normally.

https://gazettelife.com/news/fisherman-rescued/

[Mr Moofo]

Exciting times!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63950962

Maybe Nuclear Fusion isn't always 30 years away.

It would be exciting - if is ever delivered

[Screwdriver]

Exciting times!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63950962

Maybe Nuclear Fusion isn't always 30 years away.

As close to a lie as it is possible to get. "more energy out than they put in" is what the press want you to believe but the truth is a LOT more complicated and a LOT less exciting.

1.8 MJ of laser power created the conditions for a fusion reaction to initiate which output 2.5 MJ. Yeah, ok so that's a net positive output of 0.7 MJ. Free energy right?

Wrong. To get 1.8 MJ out of those lasers they needed to pump 500 MJ into them.

It's all about Q factor but you can go look it up for the full detail, I won't pretend to understand it. I am just reacting to all the excitement which would have you believe they have cracked that nut and we can all bathe in free energy.

The Q factor is a very small fraction of the total energy required to get fusion to work at all. The exciting part is really only that they're doing it with fricking lasers. You can't feed the output up the input yet for a self sustaining long term power station 1. because the reaction is sustained only for mere seconds and 2. because these numbers are still way off what is needed to overcome inefficiencies in generating USEABLE electrical energy from the power output of the fusion reaction. For that you need a Q more like 5 not merely "above one".

In my humble opinion ( ) you need gravity to make fusion work and LOTS of it. We don't even know what gravity is yet, nor how to control it. If that is at all possible (unlikely imho) then fusion might one day become a possibility. Without gravity assist, I sincerely doubt we'll ever see a viable fusion power station.

The hydrogen bomb is a n example of how we can easily create fusion "power". It uses a fission bomb to create the conditions for fusion etc. That is not dissimilar to what these chaps are doing albeit in a more controlled manner with lasers. Fusion has been around since the late 50's (with bombs and TOKAMAK) so it's nothing new. Neither is this laser guff really...

Fusion power is only 20 years away. Always has been, always will be.

[gremlin]

Just to lighten the mood...

Police force entry to help woman only to find an art installation

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-63969712

I bet they felt like right dummies!!!!

I'm here all week, please remember to tip your waitress....

[Screwdriver]

If you want to lighten the mood, go to the latest Cambridge dictionary and see if you agree with their definition of a man...

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/man

[mangocrazy]

Far from lightening the mood, that looks like an attempt to open up a whole new can of worms. Didn't lighten my mood, I have to say.

[Felix]

Good

And funding of £20m that had been set aside for a referendum on Scottish independence will instead be used to help people at risk of fuel poverty.

About time they stopped wasting money on shit.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... s-63988944

[gremlin]

Stuck for a last-minute gift for your loved one? Fear not, Trump's got you covered....

Former US President Donald Trump launches $99 NFT collection

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63995563

[irie]

https://www.healtheuropa.com/long-covid ... fe/120033/

A long COVID rehab programme, piloted by the University of Leeds, has shown impressive results for patients looking to reduce symptoms and increase activity levels.

The long COVID rehab programme is based on a gradual or paced increase in a patient’s physical activity to improve symptoms and activity levels. Before the start of the programme, the participants were reporting on average three “crashes” a week where they were left physically, emotionally, or cognitively exhausted after mild physical or mental exertion. The programme aimed to minimise “crashes”.

Long COVID causes respiratory symptoms that last an extended period of time. Long COVID sufferers continue to have symptoms of the infection and have reduced activity levels as a result of fatigue.

The rehab programme was run by the long COVID service at Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust and evaluated by clinicians and scientists at the University of Leeds and Leeds Beckett University. The findings were published in the Journal of Medical Virology.

Potentially life changing for the 2m who suffer from long Covid - if they can be arsed to do anything about it, that is.

[gremlin]

Potentially life changing for the 2m who suffer from long Covid - if they can be arsed to do anything about it, that is.

I do wonder if the same people who claimed they could do fuck all work due to ME are now claiming the same due to long Covid....

[gremlin]

Meantime, in Berlin, a small child wonders to himself, 'I wonder what will happen if I tap this big glass fish tank with this small metal object.

Berlin's giant AquaDom aquarium containing 1,500 fish explodes

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63996982

[Yorick]

Rolls Royce give staff 10% rise. The shock here is that the average staff pay is only £29k. That's pitiful really for such a prestige company.
I thought car workers got paid well.

https://news.sky.com/story/rolls-royce- ... s-12768934

[Mussels]

Stuck for a last-minute gift for your loved one? Fear not, Trump's got you covered....

Former US President Donald Trump launches $99 NFT collection

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63995563

I really want to buy one for my wife, not only a picture of Trump but also a donation to his political fund. Her dyed in the wool socialist dad would wet himself laughing.

[irie]

Rolls Royce give staff 10% rise. The shock here is that the average staff pay is only £29k. That's pitiful really for such a prestige company.
I thought car workers got paid well.

https://news.sky.com/story/rolls-royce- ... s-12768934

No, not 10%!

Workers at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars' Goodwood factory are to receive a pay award worth up to 17.6% after negotiations between the luxury automaker and Unite the union.

In all, 1,200 production workers at the West Sussex plant are to receive a salary boost of 10% and a one-off payment of £2,000 from January, avoiding the prospect of industrial action.

For the average blue collar worker, the salary rise and separate award equate to a hike of 16%, though production line workers on the lowest rate of pay at the plant will benefit to the tune of 17.6%%.

A typical worker's pay will increase by £2,972, notwithstanding the one-off payment.

[Count Steer]

Stuck for a last-minute gift for your loved one? Fear not, Trump's got you covered....

Former US President Donald Trump launches $99 NFT collection

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63995563

I really want to buy one for my wife, not only a picture of Trump but also a donation to his political fund. Her dyed in the wool socialist dad would wet himself laughing.

Get her some butter in a pot for £105 instead. It'll be more use and he'll still wet himself laughing.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/d ... dApp_Other