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The reasons why windmills wont work...
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On 7 Mar, 11:36, "Doki" wrote:
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Surely your anti-green stance is predicated ENTIRELY on price, since
no-one in their right mind could argue, absent considerations of
cost, that nuclear power was preferable to renewable energy.
Eh?
Nuclear:
It produces power all the time at a predictable and controllable
level. And it produces a lot of power in not a lot of space.
Guess what's more predictable than the power output from a nuclear
power station? The tides. Oh, and that the sun will shine. If
either of these two fail, we'll be dead and none of this will matter.
Using these vast resources to power our planet is simply a matter of
political will. Availability is not in question.
The sun isn't simple to turn into electrical energy. It's good for heating,
but we simply haven't got effective enough technology to make it a viable
option yet. Tidal power does seem to be a pretty good option. I do like the
idea that someone prepared to suggest that a renewable technology isn't
actually that good is "anti-green". I don't think anyone *wants* to bugger
the planet up...
Renewable:
Power as and when it's windy or sunny, and a lot of space for a
little power.
Vide supra.
Vide celica.
ISTR reading that the fly ash from coal power stations is about as
radioactive as nuclear waste, but nobody worrys about that much
becase it's not come out of an evil nuclear power station.
Citation needed.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=...-nuclear-waste
There you go.
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