Jamie Mulhall: Britain built the jet engine. Now let’s build the world’s nuclear battery

Jamie Mulhall is a Conservative councillor in Derby, Chairman of the LGBT+ Conservatives, and a former Parliamentary Candidate for Derby South. Every great leap in human prosperity has been powered by one thing, abundant energy. The Industrial Revolution was not simply the triumph of steam engines or spinning jennies. It happened because Britain unlocked the immense energy contained within coal, multiplying human productivity on an unprecedented scale. Today, another industrial revolution is gathering pace. Artificial intelligence, quantum computing, electric vehicles, advanced manufacturing and hydrogen all have one insatiable appetite: electricity. The nations that generate vast quantities of cheap, reliable power will dominate the twenty-first century.

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