OT Could be bit parky in Canada this winter

months before 'the beast from the east' hit us in early 2018, and before that, a bit stronger in 2010 as you say. It's already unusually cold in parts of North America

Thanks for the link.

Looks as though the Farage Garage may be knee deep in snow as well.

Happy Days

Dave R

Last La Nina year was, I think, 2015-16. Which wasn't, from memory, a particularly cold winter.

Well we can look forward to continent wide power cuts as the European grid fails under the impact of EU mandated renewable energy, then..

You are surely not suggesting we will now be better off?

Although I see the media are now floating the idea that Sizewell C might get some form of government support. Personally I am not sure that ABWR or AP1000 might not be a better call (even though that involves yet another design).

(Actually I think Hualong One might be the one that wins in the end, but of course it won't be here).

We have the chance to be yes. By the sheer fact of geographical isolation we are more self contained than Europe is. We have the chance to ditch te whole renewable obligation nonsense and phase out renewable bollocks and put windmills back in museums where they belong.

Don't give a f*ck what it is as long as it uses uranium to boil water. The things are so heavily regulated there is no chance of it going pop, so whatever is cheapest. I'd favour ABWR on the grounds of it just being a big pot of hot water with some uranium in the middle. And hence cheap..

I think that looking at all the issues, political and engineering SMRs of some sort will win. For the next decades. Then breeders of some sort, them fusion in a hundred years

If the Mohammedans don't outbreed sane people.