I'm not thinking of Scotland
I mean "all of th UK bar London" and specifically how you were planning to import everthing you will need - ie everything - into a landlocked state without being raped for import taxes?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:02, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

Meh, we have all the money
I reckon once we stop having to support you lot, we should have a bit spare.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:29, Reply)

we'll just take it off you
what with you not having natural resources or power generating capacity. Or enough water.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:31, Reply)

I wonder how much power the Thames tide could generate

( Kroney, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:32, Reply)

I can answer this for you
"about enough to power my telly"

even the planned offshore one in Scotland across one of the most powerful tidal races in the world will barely do a small town
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:38, Reply)

Surely it would depends on the amount of turbines you place across it?
Plus London's got quite a number of now underground tributaries in it. Whether the cost vs benefit would make it worth it is probably an entirely different story, one to which I do not know the plot.
( Kroney, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:44, Reply)

not really, it's an effeciency of KE transfer thing I think
you maybe right though. although it's much less than you think
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:54, Reply)

I'm certainly not suggesting it'd be enough to power even part of the city
I was just curious.
( Kroney, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:59, Reply)

we'll just sneak up the m1
and take it for free.

not the deep-fried mars bars though. you can keep that kind of crap.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:31, Reply)

I thought you like the Scots?

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:33, Reply)

that's your wishful thinking talking

( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:34, Reply)

Yep.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:34, Reply)

they are only for tourists, you know that?
good luck drving the water and the electricity down the M1 though.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:39, Reply)

You know the M1 stops at Leeds, right?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:49, Reply)

darling i don't go further north than halifax
i so can't pull this off. unlike my desperately posh colleague arabella who, in an interview, covered up shocking ignorance about not knowing where birmingham was by drawling:

sweetie, i've never left zone one.

they thought it was funny and she got the job.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:54, Reply)

Fuckssake, are people still called Arabella?

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:31, Reply)

op art
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 14:55, Reply)