Cave_Troll
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One of them looked suspiciously like Huw, our friendly neighbourhood caver / greenpeace activist.
c**tplaces said:I think nuclear power stations are the way to go. Only by doing will we learn 'on the way' to deal with the problem of disposal, we may even find a process to clean it up totally or nearly in 10 years time!..
SamT said:... How did the protesters travel to the place - bet it was by car. f*** the atomosphere - who needs that...
Really? We've had working nuclear plants in this country for fifty years or more & haven't learnt "on the way" how to deal with the crap they produce.
Why do you think the next ten years will be any different?
SamT said:Personally - I dont think nuclear is such a bad think (unless its in the form of a bomb).
Brains said:Me, I would quite happily see air travel charged at its true cost and less media hype and frenzy on many subjects.
AndyF said:Brains said:Me, I would quite happily see air travel charged at its true cost and less media hype and frenzy on many subjects.
Air travel is charged at true cost..... it's motoring that is artificially expensive due to taxation...
If car travel was cheap, I'd drive to France Better for the environment, but the taxation system makes to cheaper to fly.
graham said:That's because the airlines pay absobloodylutely nothing towards undoing any of the damage that they do.
By not breeding like idiots and by not paying people to breed, like this goverment insists on doing. An off topic gripe I have of dont have kids till you can afford them but thats a different topic...AndyF said:Why are we discussing how nuclear may be used to meet energy requirements, when we should be discussing how the net UK energy consumption can be reduced....?
cap 'n chris said:Everyone's missing the main point. It isn't about power, it's about population. World population has increased ten fold in the last 150 years and is going to exceed 10billion by 2050. Fuel demand will outstrip supply by the end of 2009 and the poor will be priced out of the market, leading to increasing examples of unalleviable extinctions such as Darfur, Kashmir etc.. There is no solution other than to get used to it.
Hughie said:Currently, under present legislation, farmers have to put 8% of their arable area into "set-aside" ie it sits there doing nothing. Defra even insist that any growth on this land is cut. I'm not sure of the national area that goes into "set-aside" but it must be colossal. It strikes me that this is a huge wasted opportunity.