CJW said...
Will given the tenuous state of Bluescope Steel in Wollongong we may just need one down here to keep a very large proportion of the city population in gainful employment
Just curious. I never understood why the Americans bailed out their car companies during the GFC to such an extent. Why not just let Bluescope go broke? To what extent should Australians keep unprofitable businesses alive - should we do it just to give people in the area gainful employment for a while longer?
Woolangong reminds me a bit of Springfield. Maybe it's not such a bad idea to build a nuclear power plant there - it will give the younger residents some meaningful employment and maybe a few more three eyed fish to catch on the w/e with their familys.
I was watching the footage today of the brave ****ushima 50 trying to cool the radioactive rods using half baked helicopters and water buckets. I then read about their plans to use fire trucks to dump water on the rods - sounds like the govt are having a few problems keeping everything under control. It seemed obvious to me, but I couldn't help wondering why on earth they didn't call on Elvis in to do the job of cooling these nuked out rods properly?
Whenever there is any sort of disaster, I'm always astounded with the sheer number of experts that are around to offer their take on it and their advice. In the last few days I've heard so many experts in the media, my workplace, and on the forums.
It's such a bummer the Japanese govt seems unable to tap into this vast resource of knowledge for assistance on how to help them through this.
As an engineer I reckon it would be an interesting program to work on, got no issue living next to one. Realistically, given our current collective knowledge there isn't another realistic low pollution source of base load energy, imo of course.
