[Alan Fry]

Originally Posted by nomadking

You can build 100s of millions of wind turbines and if the wind is to low or TOO HIGH, then they are completely useless. Even if the wind is at the right level, it has to be consistently at the right level, 100% of the time, otherwise again they are completely useless.

Thats where biomass comes in

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy

Those turbine numbers soon mount up, and you've only talked about substituting the nuclear requirement, then replace all those fossil fuel sourced stations that contribute several times the load of the nuclear plants and that's just the beginning: What about all these electric cars that will need juicing up, so replace all the diesel and petrol energy as well, diesel trains, air transport (hydrogen fuelled but you need electricity first to split the hydrogen)

Fusion power is touted as a replacement and if it can work it's likely to be much safer but the reactors suggested work on rare forms of hydrogen isotopes, not the readily available hydrogen from water so again the dirth of raw feedstock could rear it's ugly head, but at least the Arabs wouldn't have a monopoly on it.

Britain has huge renewable energy resources for starters, also a drive to renewable energy would generate jobs.