Global Warming on C4 - Monbiot in the Guardian

[Bergman]

Yes

You may well be right

Lets call it a draw - at the end of the day the gov will do what they do without reference to you or me.

Apologies to Boatmike - It wasn't my intention to call anyone a half wit - my comment was a sort of satirical reference to a comment about a ficticious bird.

No offence intended.

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

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Like your ideas on the planning process.

What we are going to do is build 5 new nuclear stations in Hampshire. The first one just down the road from you. There are very few labour MPs in Hampshire.

And just listen to the outcry if you try to change the rules.

Don't know about the lesser spotted throat warbler I think its the greater spotted half wit thats the issue.

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Nuc station in Hants? Bring it on. Get those when the big US carriers call Now consider a microplant in Portsmouth (although we'd put it in Gosport just for fun), one in Chi harbour, one at Fawley or Marchwood, one a Cowes and maybe one on each of the sea forts in the Solent. Plenty of cooling water and the fish love it a bit warmer. Short links to load and close to rough types in DPMs if any passing troublemaker fancies his own little bit of China Syndrome.

If someone wants to put a nuc station near my home then I would at the least expect free electricity for the life of the station in return, a trick I feel has been missed somewhere. But the area is too crowded. I don't recall the guidelines but it used to be more that 20 miles from concentrations of more that 10,000 or something like that. Plenty of empty bits of Scotland, Wales or the north of England

 

[Twister_Ken]

>one at Cowes<

Do they use electricity on the Island? I thought they were still burning cowe dung and driftwood.

 

[Robin]

Don't need to build nuclear here. Get the French to do it, they have less trouble with planning than us. Double the size of the plant on Cap De La Hague as a starter and sell the power over here, we are only 65mls downwind of it anyway so what's the difference. Of course they'll rip us off on price but hey ho we are used to that. It has to beat cooking on camel dung BBQs.

 

[DaveS]

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As far as I know "carbon capture" is little more than a theory - I know of no commercially viable systems that are in operation.
In short, apart from the 20% of our electrical power produced by nuclear - all other energy usage will have to be cut by 60% to meet the commitment.

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Carbon capture is being put in place at Peterhead power station. The idea is to take CO2 from the stack, and inject it down almost exhausted North Sea oil wells, in the process pushing out the last of the oil that would otherwise have been abandoned as not economically recoverable. Quite clever really.