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Old 13-03-2012, 11:02   #12
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Re: UK nuclear plans 'put energy in French hands'Government plans for nuclear power r

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Originally Posted by Osem View Post
You'd need a blooming big wind farm to produce what one nuclear power station would and that's forgeting about the need to turn it off during periods of the 'wrong sort of wind'.
And that's before you start looking at the massive pollution involved in wind farms. The magnets for these wind turbines rely on rare-earth elements which are produced at huge cost to the local environment.

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