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Re: Wind v Nuclear
hmmm
being a nuclear safety bod - I might be biased somewhat ...
Clearly in my mind, if you want you aircon, internet, mod cons etc then wind power will not provide that. The nuclear option is in my opinion the only way forward, but thats not what the UK Govenment think - so expect to by buying your energy from France, Russia etc in the future (does that still make us a world force - nope !) .... I digress ...
You can spend days playing with facts and figures, doing energy balance and waste / polution calculations. However, just think how many wind turbines you need to say supply a city with power .....
Think of the power needed (created say by fossil fuel) to manufacture them ...
Think of the same power needed to smelt the metal in the first place
Thanks of the transport costs of moving them by road and then by sea ....
And then compare all that with their life time of operation and power output .... not so good !
That said, and I say this still as a pro-nuclear chap, the nuclear industry has done little to make itself more user-friendly. Nuc waste is still a problem and fusion is 10's of years away .....
seriously now .... lets get used to power cuts .. or being held to ransom over out power needs in the very near future ....
chow
Mark
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