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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan
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I meant that Nulclear emits no carbon, but that still not enough for the risks involved
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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
We would all love it if all our energy needs could come from renewable energy sources but the truth is that technology is nowhere near effective or mature enough yet. It's a sad fact that for too long in the UK we have neglected longterm planning for our energy needs and now find ourselves near the edge.
I would prefer an alternative to nuclear but right now we don't have one. My way of looking at it is in the shortterm we need nuclear but must use the breathing space that will give us to further develop and refine the alternatives to the point we're the world leaders in it and can base a portion of our economy on high tech well paid manufacturing in the future.
Sometimes we have to make do in order to progress thats where i see us at the minute.
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We have a huge amount of renewable rsources that are not exploited in the UK, Nuclear is expensive and is a huge liablity for a very long time
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Originally Posted by nomadking
It doesn't matter one little bit, what marvellous advances are made in wind and solar technology. The unreliable and intermittent nature of the source energy means that you will ALWAYS have to have enough conventional generating capacity as if the wind and solar systems were not there in the first place.
The only possible ways they could contribute is if the energy could be stored(unlikely), or if there was a 2nd national grid system feeding back into the power stations, and using it to pre-heat the water that is turned into steam to drive turbines. That would allow the smoothing out of the intermittent nature of the renewable energy.
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Or we could build more biomass power stations?