tlocke

Very well put.

Good to hear Bradford On Avon mentioned, the town where I grew up. Is there a link to the place where they're installing Linux?

The Tithe Barn in Bradford On Avon was the medieval equivalent to an Amazon warehouse!

I'd have thought there are many tech angles. For example, in a possible Greenland invasion, what are the implications of the US having control of dominant platforms such as Windows, Android and Apple? Not to mention all the dominant cloud platforms.

Exergy is the amount of work that a system can potentially do. It was on my physics course in the UK I'm fairly sure.

The least well-off don't have cars at all, but suffer from their ill-effects the most. So the least well-off benefit the most from congestion pricing.

I was 18th on the list, thanks for the donation!

There's also the approach to funding that looks at things from another angle, and says we should have a basic income, or negative income tax, for everyone.

For nuclear, the subsidies are often in insurance and decommissioning and long-term storage of waste.

So looking at insurance, it's impossible to fully insure a nuclear power station, and so the state effectively insures it.

With long term storage of waste, the material has to be securely stored for about 10,000 years. As far as I know, only Finland is doing this so far.

With decommissioning, it always costs more than is set aside, and so the taxpayer gets left to pick up the pieces eventually.

With your example of Ontario I don't know how these costs I've outlined will be handled, but if it's anything like the UK the costs will be pushed onto the taxpayer.

Comparing electricity costs between countries probably says more about government subsidies than the underlying cost of generation. Nuclear fission is an expensive source of electricity (see the high subsidies for Hinckley C) and so I suspect France's nuclear power is heavily subsidised.

True, I struggle to think 10 years ahead these days. The horizon for predictions is definitely shrinking.