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jnoshea:
--- Quote from: "C C" ---Nuclear power is the only short-term solution. The sooner the government accepts this and starts building more power stations the better for us all.
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Absolutely CC. Modern nuclear power station are self-regulating so they're 'power-off' state is to shut down and make safe. We still have the radiactive waste to deal with, but this is trivial compared to the predicted climate change problems.
Stormin:
But what about the virtues of wind power and wave power? :? How about harnessing all that power from the rivers :? Water wheels by the hundred. Sorry! It's the Jack Daniels I've been on since 4 o'clock. :roll: And I've got to attend an eviromental awareness lecture at work in the morning. :(
Manicminer:
--- Quote from: "C C" ---Nuclear power is the only short-term solution. The sooner the government accepts this and starts building more power stations the better for us all.
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The government can't afford to decommission the ones that we have shut down at the moment without building more. The companies who ran the old powerstations paid a % of the profit to pay for decommissioning but the last Government spent it on other things.
muddyweb:
How about just taking a more global approach and stop using as much power !!??!
How about *not* building so many new "efficient" cars which take MASSIVE amounts of energy to produce ? How about encouraging people to keep their cars longer... it uses less energy.
How about *not* transporting food all over thre country and promoting the use of good quality, well produced domestic produce ? Transporting 1Kg of Lamb from New Zealand produces something like 37Kg of CO !
How about *not* pandering to the hype-laden, tabloid-driven mentality that seems to exist in this country, and letting our politicians know that there *are* people out here that understand the issues and take a whollistic view to energy consumption and that they don't need to take knee-jerk, headline grabbing responses.
Make your voices heard !!!
jnoshea:
--- Quote from: "muddyweb" ---How about just taking a more global approach and stop using as much power !!??!
How about *not* building so many new "efficient" cars which take MASSIVE amounts of energy to produce ? How about encouraging people to keep their cars longer... it uses less energy.
How about *not* transporting food all over thre country and promoting the use of good quality, well produced domestic produce ? Transporting 1Kg of Lamb from New Zealand produces something like 37Kg of CO !
How about *not* pandering to the hype-laden, tabloid-driven mentality that seems to exist in this country, and letting our politicians know that there *are* people out here that understand the issues and take a whollistic view to energy consumption and that they don't need to take knee-jerk, headline grabbing responses.
Make your voices heard !!!
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Absolutely agree with you Tim. My MP knows how I feel and he seems to take a similar whollistic view of the problem. He agrees that quibbling over a few mpg is pointless. The problem is that people don't want to put themselves out at all, so they pick someone else to blame and say "I'm not going to sort out my inefficient home until he stops driving a Land Rover". It makes them feel better about not actually helping the problem. It's not just individuals but whole countries too. The UK thinks it's pointless changing until the US stops driving gas-guzzlers. The US won't cut fuel use until China puts out its underground coal fires. On so it goes on...
It's all very sad indeed.
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