New high speed rail link

I'm sure the Chinese are rubbing their hands together at the thought of all those new LEDs to manufacture.

 

Redcar sea front is currently undergoing massive redevelopment. Among other things, it has new lamp posts that shine straight down with white light. I'm impressed. I don't know if they are LED ones. Maybe they are. I might see if I can find out.

 

But they would still be more expensive than China.
Off topic but that is where the whole thing has gone wrong.

We cant produce anything cheaper than certain other parts of the world, especially those that use forced labour and kids.
For the work that we cannot source overseas, we import the labour.
We Dont stand a chance and I cant see things ever getting better.

As corporal Frazer used to say "we're doomed".

 

Here's another good use for £30Billion funding. A small chemical company in Stockton-on-Tees recently made the news after they were able to prove that they'd made petrol out of nothing more than air. As we all know, our air contains, among other things, carbon and hydrogen. Just what you need to make hydrocarbons, and with a bit of witchery beyond my understanding, petrol.

They've proven it, but their prototype kit literally extracted a couple of drops of petrol over a couple of weeks. They are a small firm, so can't ramp up by recruiting more boffins and buying more kit. Imagine if they had £30bn (or even a few million) in funding to perfect this technology. Imagine Britain being the country that changes the world for ever. Instead of transport polluting the air, the process of making the fuel actually cleans the air. And better still, next time the middle east hold us to ransom with their rising oil costs, we just tell them to keep it, we'll make our own.

 

Once you added government tax it would still be unaffordable.

 

Wasnt sheffield going to swith to complete led street lighting?

 

I know when I lived in Sheffield, I lived on one the hills overlooking the whole city. It used to frustrate me that I could see a sea of orange at night, because I knew that me being able to see it all despite being higher than most of the lamps meant that most of their energy was shooting off in completely the wrong direction from where it was needed. In effect, all that energy was just being beamed straight out into space.

 

Found a link,it was sheffield..good on them
https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/roads/works/lighting.html