Re: Dear reader (@ I ain't spartacus)
> Nice post.
Pleasure
> I think you over-analysed mine a touch.
It happens.
> I just picked a couple of companies at random that seem to be investing in new things. Interesting stuff about Rolls Royce.
I used to know a little bit about GE and a bit more about GEC, and now know a bit about RR, and have consequently got slightly fed up with seeing RR quoted as the poster child of british technology engineering and manufacturing when the RR reality may not exactly match the hype.
"Although domestic nuclear (maybe a car-sized reactor?) would be best. I saw it on that documentary about the future I was watching the other day. What was it called again? Tomorrow's World? No, that was it, Thunderbirds."
Have you read about Terrapower? Backed by Toshiba and some bloke called Gates, who presumably has money to burn.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/toshiba-and-bill-gates-backed-terrapower-discussing-small-scale/
Biting the hand that feeds IT
