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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 3, 2011 10:00:59 GMT 1
"The days of permanently available electricity may be coming to an end...Families would have to get used to only using power when it was available, said Steve Holliday, chief executive of the National Grid."bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2011/3/3/the-third-world-ambition-of-the-uk.htmlWell, of course, if one replaces reliable sources of electricity with unreliable ones. What insight! Maybe, at last, this signals that someone in the Establishment is opening a debate querying the replacement of thermal electricity with renewable. Good.
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Post by abacus9900 on Mar 3, 2011 10:44:44 GMT 1
Surely, atomic energy is the future, isn't it?
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 3, 2011 12:36:05 GMT 1
I hope so, abacus! Windmills are so last millenium but one (as Mr Smith would say).
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Post by abacus9900 on Mar 3, 2011 14:11:50 GMT 1
I hope so, abacus! Windmills are so last millenium but one (as Mr Smith would say). I'm still a bit worried about radiation though because if we are going to build more and more reactors won't that put the risk up? |
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 3, 2011 20:30:15 GMT 1
Apparently there are more natural sources of radiation in the environment than from nuclear waste, abacus.
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Post by rsmith7 on Mar 3, 2011 21:05:52 GMT 1
Nuclear isn't without risks but then, what is - that's worthwhile.
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Post by abacus9900 on Mar 3, 2011 21:38:31 GMT 1
Apparently there are more natural sources of radiation in the environment than from nuclear waste, abacus. Well, if reactors are constructed as safely as they ought to be then fine; my worry is that the more reactors that are made the more chance of defects. |
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Post by abacus9900 on Mar 3, 2011 21:39:19 GMT 1
Nuclear isn't without risks but then, what is - that's worthwhile. Sleeping? |
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Post by rsmith7 on Mar 4, 2011 0:45:57 GMT 1
Yep, we'd really go somewhere if we all slept all the time???
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Post by Progenitor A on Mar 4, 2011 9:31:35 GMT 1
Nuclear isn't without risks but then, what is - that's worthwhile. Sleeping? Sleeping is the riskiest activity of them all The Health and Safety Executive UK have produced a leaflet warning against sleeping, pointing out that some 83.5% of people in England die in their sleep The proportion is somewhat higher in Scitalnd but as the H&S Exec points out, the Scotch are lazy bastards anyway |
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Post by rsmith7 on Mar 4, 2011 10:26:07 GMT 1
Get out of it you soft, southern, shandy drinking b*****d!  |
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Post by abacus9900 on Mar 4, 2011 10:33:58 GMT 1
Sleeping is the riskiest activity of them all The Health and Safety Executive UK have produced a leaflet warning against sleeping, pointing out that some 83.5% of people in England die in their sleep The proportion is somewhat higher in Scitalnd but as the H&S Exec points out, the Scotch are lazy bastards anyway Nice way to go though!  |
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Post by abacus9900 on Mar 4, 2011 10:34:52 GMT 1
Get out of it you soft, southern, shandy drinking b*****d! Hey, nought wrong with shandy!! |
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Post by rsmith7 on Mar 4, 2011 10:51:33 GMT 1
I've been watching the antics of the left with growing incredulity. The only possible reason for their idiotic policies is to bring down market capitalism.
The three pillars of capitalism are human ingenuity, finance and energy.
Brown and Clinton have destroyed the financial base. The anti-nuclear, pro-renewables, anti - fossil fuels nonsense will starve us of energy and over-regulation is stifling human ingenuity.
What do these maniacs want instead?
Surely not the proven failure that is socialism/communism/progressivism - call it what you want?
I used to think it was just the left being wooly-headed and stupid.
I'm not so sure now.
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Post by abacus9900 on Mar 4, 2011 11:38:21 GMT 1
I've been watching the antics of the left with growing incredulity. The only possible reason for their idiotic policies is to bring down market capitalism. The three pillars of capitalism are human ingenuity, finance and energy. Brown and Clinton have destroyed the financial base. The anti-nuclear, pro-renewables, anti - fossil fuels nonsense will starve us of energy and over-regulation is stifling human ingenuity. What do these maniacs want instead? Surely not the proven failure that is socialism/communism/progressivism - call it what you want? I used to think it was just the left being wooly-headed and stupid. I'm not so sure now. I notice you didn't mention the bankers in that little analysis |
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