In his lifetime he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen.
Jorge Luis Borges
Yeap, I've read that too Wheeze, although there's some division of opinion on how things might pan out. According to Wiki (so it must be true!)
" An alternative scenario is given by the statistician Jorgen Randers, who argues that traditional projections insufficiently take into account the downward impact of global urbanization on fertility. Randers' "most likely scenario" reveals a peak in the world population in the early 2040s at about 8.1 billion people, followed by decline.[106] Adrian Raftery, a University of Washington professor of statistics and of sociology, states that "there’s a 70 percent probability the world population will not stabilize this century"[107.]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
The chart on the RH side of this link shows the claimed possible variability in predictions.
Even a stabilized population at 7.3 billion is massive for the planet to sustain if it's mostly consumerist focused.
I think we're also already seeing the effect of people in materially poorer parts of the globe believing that all is gold in western Europe and North America with movements northwards for a piece of the cake by any means.
Am Yisrael Chai
Yes, I think you're right. Those sort of approaches look encouraging as an alternative. Maybe it's a shame we hadn't tried these decades ago before we got into this mess. Lance Corporal Fraser gave us a heads up too...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxqvwkmTNy8
Last edited by Mossdog; 17-08-2020 at 06:55 PM.
Am Yisrael Chai
[QUOTE=Mossdog;665297]Yes, I think you're right. Those sort of approaches look encouraging as an alternative. Maybe it's a shame we hadn't tried these decades ago before we got into this mess.
They were :- https://www.thegreenage.co.uk/cos/rance-tidal-power/
Seems that there has been a failure in recognising the true potential of the project, to blinkered by percuniary costs to see the long term advantages and benefits in further developement.
Mind you the Scottish project gives real hope.
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The older I get the Faster I was
https://www.livescience.com/china-cr...um-reactor.htm
Their Thorium reactor should go live this autumn. I really hope this goes well. Should release us from the severe restrictions facing old school reactors.
Simon Blease
Monmouth
It's not gone well so far:
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Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run
Ha! So it has!! Inscrutable Chinese at it again.
Try this. Its an 18 minute lecture. The first 10 minutes goes over the history of nuclear power and its issues. The last 8 minutes gives a current overview of where we are and where we are going with Thorium MSR's. So you could skip the first bit, but it gives great context.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EFfxMx6WJs
Simon Blease
Monmouth