basement, gas furnace/water heater question.. dont have any ventilation..need to have some fresh air

[trader4]

What you said was that you were in the USA and saw furnaces being installed in new construction that were of design technology that the UK abandoned 50 years ago, ie 1960. Still waiting for the simple explanation of what exactly you saw, but obviousy the village idiot can't provide it, because once again you're caught full of BS.

Amazing how you can blame everything on the USA. As I recall, while some American car manufacturers did buy some British car companies, it was only after the British govt had become heavily involved in onwership and stewardship of the British auto industry and run it into the ground. That level of stupidy the US govt is only now approaching.

Yeah, and the USA builds over 4 MILLION a year. You little piss ants hardly even register in world market share. If the British had such superior technology, while the USA sucks, the numbers would be reversed?

Now run along and play in traffic.

[harry]

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Yes you're behind us in most things.. Government Motors? We abandoned that idea forty years ago.;-)

For the size and population of the country that we build a lot more. We export cars. World market? Don't make me laugh. WTF wants American cars? No-one. Even Americans won't buy them any more, the most ugly primitive cars in the world. Even the Russians make prettier cars! You'll need to get some Europeans to design you some. Or Japanese. Oh, that's already so.

[harry]

We had even worse. We had Ford.

[harry]

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Re what I saw. I saw flimsy, poorly designed buildings with little insulation. I saw concrete being laid by idiots. I saw basement concrete structure with half the thickness neccessary and very little re-bar. For damp-proofing a bit of bitumous paint. I saw local highways of concrete, broken up by trucks even before the houses were sold. I saw roofs made out of tarred felt. I saw primitive air heaters with dodgy control sytems. I saw massive domestic hot water stores.

[trader4]

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Last time I checked, the size and population of a country doesn't have much of a correleation to it's export capabilities. Look at places like Taiwan, that achieved huge worldwide exports in all kinds of markets from handgoods to semiconductors.

How many people and how many acres do you think it takes to build an auto plant? Hmmm? Facts are simple. If the UK was so superior as you claim, you'd be a major player with huge market share in autos. Instead, you're a nit, yet you have the nerve to hurl insults at the USA.

Apparently a lot of people do, because we build 4mil+ a year. How many does Britain build, with all it's supposedly advanced technology? Oh, and speaking of advanced technology, how's it going in the high tech world of semiconductors and computers for you guys? Hmmm? You do have one major semiconductor plant that I know of, but it's in Ireland, thanks to US based Intel, who built and own it. Got any Microsofts, Ciscos, Apples, etc over there? How's that going for you? Even places like Taiwan, with it's small size, kicked your asses. They have huge semiconductor fabs and high tech manufacturing located there. South Korea buried you too.

So go stick your head in your high efficiency UK furnace and turn the gas on for us, OK?

[trader4]

only. You suck

u heat the heat

case of the OP,

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Yawn.... Wrong again. I presume it's ARM microprocessors that you claim are made in the UK. In fact, the small UK based company merely licenses out the intellectual property rights to other companies that actually have the billion dollar fabs that produce them in various OTHER parts of the world. In fact, I'd be surprised if ANY ARM microprocessors are actually fabbed in the UK. Certainly not the basis for a manufacturing economy, jobs, capital investment that one would expect given your claim that the UK is so far superior.