On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:37:07 +0100, geoff wrote:

In message , Tim
Streater writes
In article , Andy Champ
wrote:

On 12/09/2010 15:06, David Hansen wrote:
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:55:45 +0100 someone who may be Andy Champ
wrote this:-

Personally I don't find the odd turbine or two unnattractive. I
have doubts over the numbers required through - the UK peak
consumption is something over 60GW, which means (surely I've got
this wrong?) 30,000 of those 2MW units, each of which is as tall as
St Paul's Cathedral.

Your "argument" is based on generating all electricity from wind
turbines. A straw man.
What large scale non-fossil technologies are available?

Nuclear is the only one.

There's wave power

get the pope to continually drive around and harness everyone's right
arm

Or just harness dennis's right arm...

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