Double-digit rise in Npower bills

[BBKing]

Canada is great, nice people, everywhere is clean, great mountains and countryside and no reliance on North Sea Gas.

What's North Sea Gas, as our children will one day ask us...

Canada does have large uranium deposits, which is interesting*. Of course, if we all start building nuclear reactors, we'll start to run out of uranium, too. Let's have a tidal barrage or two, then.

* There's a lot in Australia too, and the French have kept a tight post-colonial hold on Niger for precisely the same reason, having thought ahead a bit thirty or so years ago and closed the mining industry (to avoid strikes) and gone big-time nuclear (to avoid having to suck up to too many Middle Eastern sods. Except Saddam Hussein of course, but hey, who didn't?). Russia and IIRC Kazakhstan have a lot of uranium, too. We have, er, zip. Once the oil and gas has gone it's coal, wind, wave or buying it off some foreigners at whatever the market price is at the moment (the pound has just plummeted against the Euro, which oil is starting to be traded in as the US dollar implodes. Still think it's a good idea to stay out?).

[Xaccers]

Originally Posted by Bri_G

Canada is great, nice people, everywhere is clean, great mountains and countryside and no reliance on North Sea Gas.

Insane women though, speaking from experience (all the ones I've met or friends have met, including a rather strange second cousin have been rather insane, and only one was a nice loopy insane).


Perhaps we can harness the hot air produced by politicians some how?
One Labour front bencher could probably power the light bulbs in a town the size of Milton Keynes.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Xaccers

I thought someone mentioned on the radio that wholesale price of energy had gone up 60%

Did they mention how many hundreds of millions in profit they made also? Seems strange that a company can have a 'bad' year and still make hundreds of millions and why is it the cost never seems to go down that much when gas becomes cheaper?

This is the answer to all our woes:



And this:


Both are available for the consumer to install (or supplier to install) - so nPower, and other energy supply companies can go and screw!

No nuclear build more nuclear powerstations

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

No nuclear build more nuclear powerstations

near your house?

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

near your house?

I don't have a problem with that. I have a coal power station no more than 5 miles from me at the moment that pumps out more crap in winter than Gordon Brown at Question time.

Last thing i want is a load of bloody turbines all around me.

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/205758

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddler..._Power_Station

[ginge51]

Now that's alot of crap there ^^^^

Originally Posted by Sirius

Last thing i want is a load of bloody turbines all around me.

Would you settle for a sea wind farm?

[Chrysalis]

yeah fuel costs very unpredictable.

Whats stupid is that in the governments official inflation figures (which are used for wage increases, benefit increases etc.) they weight cost of clothing higher than cost of fuel. I can probably say that nearly everyone in the lower income bracket spends alot more on gas/electric than clothes.

I think its only a matter of time before the government is forced to bring in a income based heating allowance.

[WHISTLED]

Both are available for the consumer to install (or supplier to install) - so nPower, and other energy supply companies can go and screw!

Noth are available but neither are viable domestically yet, the costs are ust too high and the output too low. It wont be long though and i certianly dont mind the commercial wind farms, I find them quite attractive.

Edit: Clearly not attractive sexually..... although I am in a dry spell!

Originally Posted by papa smurf

near your house?

yeah man why not? and if the worst happens and it melts down ill be dead straight away instead of suffering for ages lol .Its relatively clean except for the small amount of waste that is very bad but small is volume and shoudl should hope safe with science what it is . Yeah build it in my garden

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

yeah man why not? and if the worst happens and it melts down ill be dead straight away instead of suffering for ages lol .Its relatively clean except for the small amount of waste that is very bad but small is volume and shoudl should hope safe with science what it is . Yeah build it in my garden

In all, 7 million people in the former Soviet republics of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine are believed to have suffered physical or psychological injuries from the April 26, 1986, catastrophe, when reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded and caught fire.

An area roughly half the size of Colorado was contaminated by the accident, forcing the resettlement of hundreds of thousands of people and ruining some of Europe's most fertile farmland.
thats why not

[Xaccers]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

In all, 7 million people in the former Soviet republics of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine are believed to have suffered physical or psychological injuries from the April 26, 1986, catastrophe, when reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded and caught fire.

An area roughly half the size of Colorado was contaminated by the accident, forcing the resettlement of hundreds of thousands of people and ruining some of Europe's most fertile farmland.
thats why not

Course, that helps if you actually ignore why Chernobyl actually went bang, doesn't it, otherwise it would negate the scare tactics in the stats.

[SOSAGES]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

An area roughly half the size of Colorado was contaminated by the accident,

how big (or small) is that then?