Discussion on "Production problems associated with industrial atomic energy" at the Wolverhampton Section of the Institution

Mr. L. W. Farrer (Villiers Engineering Co. Ltd., Wolverhampton), who opened the discussion, said that basically, they were talking about producing heat and, of course, heat was something which mechanical engineers knew how to handle. It was a wonderful example of engineering and the problems which had beset Dr. Littlechild were fantastic. So far, they had not been given much hope of cheaper energy in the future, and Mr. Farrer asked whether, by 1965-1970, they could hope to find some reduction in the cost of electricity ? Many years ago, there was a joke about ´ carrying coals to Newcastle ´, but in spite of the efforts of the coal industry, the U.K. now had to import coal.