It’s good to see British innovation is alive and well, despite the savage demise of most of British manufacturing. RR can lead a Renaissance in British manufacturing again, and put the great back into Britain, making Brexit a success. 🇬🇧
Why the government are not doubling if not tripling down on RR nuclear is beyond me. If I was in charge I'd give people a message of hope for the future. One where Britain can become a symbol of giving to the people of the world cheap, reliable and safe energy. If governments had cared we couldn't be in the situation we are in now.
Even if it is possible to produce SMRs, electricity from them will still be more expensive than from large NPP, it is still not efficient. Don't fall for the hype.
Happy to see this. I feel space will offer real opportunities going forward, especially in engineering and manufacture. The market is only just beginning to develop and now is the time for the UK to establish the foundations of a high tech space industry. Good luck RR
So the mini nuclear reactors made today by Roll Royce. How many would you need to produce the same amount of nuclear reactors of Sizewell power station in East Anglia, U.K. ?
Smart move by Rolls-Royce, it's not just NASA and the Artemis program, Elon Musk landing human on Mars could happen by end of the decade and they will be a customer as well, he envisions creating a base on Mars so nuclear reactors is a must.
@@howardmoon1234 Haha! Yeah, Musk ain't putting no-one on Mars full stop. He's nothing but a techno-porn merchant to his adoring fan boys. A manned Mars mission will not happen even in the next 20 years but when it does, it'll be an internationally collaborative effort. Musks hubris is off the scale if he thinks he's gonna do it single-handedly 🤣. Man's a joke...
@@howardmoon1234 You sound like some SpaceX/Musk jealous haterboy champ. SpaceX is building Starship right now, which is the first vehicle capable of executing a human mission to Mars. So smart money will be on that one.
When we hear about the possibility of sending manned missions to Mars we hear about Space X and NASA, but Rolls Royce can do it too. British government should support Rolls Royce engineers and get behind U.K. space exploration.
I worked in engineering when I was in my mid 20s , and some of the company’s were like going back to the Victorian times with old buildings and machinery. Not like modern German companies.
No company in Germany can compete with the level of nuclear know-how the British currently have, which doesn't start nor end with Rolls Royce, but yes; the Germans can make a car and a washing machine and build it in Slovakia or China.
Please, apart from Space, can this Rolls-Royce Micro-Reactor be used to power homes, villages and rural communities to uphold clean energy, renewable energy, green energy and sustainable electricity for humankind and our planet? Healthy blessings, profitability and wisdom to Rolls-Royce, abundantly. Shalom.
@@jonathanodude6660 He literally says it's thermoelectric in the clip. "Take thermal energy and produce electric energy". RTGs needs big fans as most of the heat has to go somewhere and can't be used to produce electricity. Without the fans it would overheat. For example in NASAs RTGs only 300W electricity is produced in a unit that produces 4400W of heat.
@@eryck123 that’s not exactly what defines thermoelectric. That quote describes all engines. I said in my response that it’s probably a heat engine, which also converts thermal energy to electrical energy. Thermoelectric uses the difference in temperature between 2 substrates, thermal just means heat is generated and that heat can be used to do work. They aren’t the same. Having said that, it seems like they were talking about putting radioactive material into the reactor as the heat source, which I didn’t catch. That looks like a closed loop to me so I am unsure which fans you are talking about, but the heat pipes may be used to separate the heat source from the actual thermoelectric generator.
So, what is the basic design? Is it novel? Deep space probes have used the heat of radioactive decay to generate power for decades. Is this something else? I mean, just a hit, please.
If the intention is to make Britain a science superpower, which we almost are, somebody in government needs to do something about the education system and stop teaching things like critical race theory and start teaching things like mathematics physics and chemistry. We need to get the left wing politics out of schools and get back to our proper basics.
We should congratulate all those seeking to use nuclear technology. Lets hope that the next generation of ICBM's are powered by clean green means of propulsion for a safer world.
Another expensive nuclear technology that won’t be here anytime soon but will keep lots of scientists in work . USA, China ,Japan etc will use their own tech . Artimis is an old tech with large overspend on old tech , at this time years behind so this tech may be more useful on earth
Not from Britain? Maggie is a renowned figure in academia, government and space engineering. She also co-presents 'The Sky at Night' (A well known BBC TV astronomy program that has been running since 1957)
I don’t think that Nuclear is the knight in shining armor we have been looking for, it might well be having a renaissance but people seem to have forgotten why it was being leaned away from in the beginning. I’ve no doubt we will be reminded.
It was being "leaned away from" because of 'green' groups sponsored by Russian and Chinese cash. Amazing how they brainwashed us into going from nuclear to gas.
@@robinmorritt7493 Robin, sorry mate I feel like I missed an opportunity to be a University Lecturer for freeloaders on the internet looking for wisdom in all the wrong places. Far be it for me to suggest something and people do their own research and then have them negate everything but their own perspective with the stench of BS that comes with no thought whatsoever. I tell you what Robin, I'll do a thesis on the subject, submit it for review to the panel and then pass that right on to you. I'll be sure to include a chapter on Eco Lunatics and Rational Debate because it's quite clear from the small amount you have said that you are, lazy, easy to label, without a self-formed opinion and ready for someone to offer an opinion while you tear it down after reading the Sun.
Nuclear fusion is the only long term answer . Building wind mills ,solar farms etc is just tinkering around the edges . Nuclear fusion is a game changer if we can master it , not just for this country, but for the planet . Limitless clean energy for the whole planet . You can then help bring the third world out of poverty and to a western standard of living . You do realise that if everyone on the planet lived and consumed as we do ,the energy consumption alone, relying on power generation on present day renewable sources , ie wind turbines , solar farms would mean the whole planet would need to be covered in them . Nuclear Fusion is the future and will happen , in a sad sort of way Putin has done the world a favour, he has spurred on government investment and research into Fusion around the world due to the rude awakening of our ridiculous reliance on despot regimes for power , be it gas or oil . I would put money on it that the Fusion problem of getting more energy out than you put in , is solved in this country. Like so many revolutionary inventions they were invented, discovered or developed in this country ,let’s just hope that , as so very often happened in the past our brain dead short sighted politicians do not sell off ,give ,or fritter away, any financial, industrial, or scientific benefits ,or technological lead ,we may gain from any such break through .
