On 12/03/2011 18:48, John Williamson wrote:
harry wrote:
On Mar 12, 2:56 pm, Andy Dingley wrote:
On Mar 12, 8:40 am, harry wrote:

The age of gas is finished.
I have some sympathy with this view, but are you going to nip into
your Tardis and go back to tell Thatcher not to build our energy
generating capacity on gas too? If you follow the web links that TNP
has been posting lately, it's amazing just how much of total grid
output has been coming from gas of late.

If the gas is finished, or if Putin turns the tap off again, not
only stories about a breakthrough
will the heating go off, but the lights will too.

Nuclear is the only way unfortunately. Just hope that fusion can be
made to work.

Haven't they been saying "Give us twenty years and we'll have fusion
working" since the 60s?

Although someone did publish an account recently of a fusion reactor
that broke even on energy production for a few seconds.

Well!!!!!!! scientists have been talking about that for years. I seem to
remember newspapers being very excited by the so called fantastic
breakthrough by British scientists in the early 1950s or was it late
40s, *FUSION* free energy for evermore!!!!!!!!. We are still waiting.
I blame our politicians from both sides of the political arena who have
been concentrating on reducing CO2 -Bah. Instead of concentrating on
long term security of energy supplies for the UK, their decisions have
put in jeopardy the future of Britain.The French have been happily
building Nuclear and making sure that their main transport systems
(rail) run on electricity generation. The French have always put their
country first. I only wish our politicians had the same goal. Probably
too late now, the good times when money was flowing are over.
Don