Interesting when it comes to apartment building, the apartments themselves and their life cycle.

The Budget can already be termed The Do Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone Budget given that the number one issue – housing will not be even addressed in the urgency and respect that it needs and that the polls (78% of all voters and 61% of National Voters according to Reid Research) demand.

With Key personally commenting also on the Greens rail and sea freight policy you know the Prime Minister (but not the Government) is on his last legs.

With Bond and OCR rates so low this is the time to build the infrastructure including housing ready for the next economic boom. One has to remember in Macro Economics surpluses take money out of the economy so I have no idea why English is wanting to do that given inflation is 0%.

There is so much to do but the Prime Minister is caught like a deer in the headlights wedded to his polls which are fast showing a disapproval of him.

And while Key looks to Labour for that knife I suggest looking inwards instead. Remember Shipley vs Bolger especially with Winston in the comeback trail AGAIN.

Left going for the aspirational while Key goes for the services and investment front (CRL et al).

Voters will usually go for something tangible they can see rather than feely feely you get with aspirational stuff.

So then how to change that strategy….

Whether it be the Generation III+ Pressurised Water Reactors (conventional) or the new Generation IV Molten Salt Reactors (currently a scheme got CAD$5m to do get started on one in Canada) that use Thorium fuel rather than uranium the point is this:

If we are serious about lessening needs on oil, coal and gas and where hydro is not available for baseload power production then nuclear becomes your next best option especially for the big 10 nations.

I saw a picture of a 250 hectare Solar Farm producting some 350MW of power. A Nuclear Plant that side with 4 times 2GW reactors can produce 8GW of power in the same amount of space with heat and steam byproducts that heavy industry could use if built near by.

That said technology has allowed conventional reactors and the MSRs to get right down to modular level and produce 225MW of power without a problem. As a comparison a Huntly Coal/gas boiler was 250MW while Otahuhu B now shut down produced 385MW.

The applications are there and nuclear where viable deserves a shot again if we are serious in dealing with emissions with power production.