On 18 Sep, 09:09, "nightjar" .me.uk>
wrote:
>> On 17 Sep, 22:17, "nightjar" .me.uk>
>> wrote:
>>> "Doug"
riseup.net> wrote in message>
>
>>>> For all those with electric cars and battery chargers or who use
>>>> trains. Of course, the obvious solution,
>
>>> ... is to stop protesters from trying to interfere with plans for new
>>> power
>>> stations.
>
>> Nope because carbon capture is unproven and expensive and is being
>> used merely as an excuse to build more heavily polluting coal power
>> stations.
>
> Carbon capture is only needed to meet the most stringent of future targets.
> There are several other technologies that can be used to meet current
> standards that are well proven, from simple measures like improving the
> thermal efficiency of the generating plant to modern answers like co-firing
> biomass. All are relatively expensive, but the cost will be passed onto the
> consumer.
>
This sort of technological tinkering at the edges may provide small
gains but it doesn't solve the problem.
>
>> While renewables look attractive they cannot meet demand and are in
>> some cases uneconomic.
>
> Something we have been saying on here for a while.
>
Becuase its obvious?
>
>> Nuclear is extremely hazardous and costly.
>
> It is neither. There have been only two major reactor failures in a
> cumlative 12,700 years of reactor operation. At Three Mile Island, the
> containmnet procedures prevented any harm to anyone. At Chernobyl, it was
> the lack of similar containment procedures that caused the problems.
> Windscale was the result of weapons research, not nuclear generation. While
> the capital cost of nuclear plants is high, the generating costs are very
> low and it is by far the cheapest way to generate electricity. The only
> reason we don't have a lot more of it is the similarly ill-informed
> protesters of an earlier era.
>
The use and very long-term storage of radioactive material is
obviously hazardous to human life and at risk from sabotage.
Decommissioning of nuclear plants is extremely expensive.The mining
and transport of uranium is polluting. There is a strong possibility
that radioactive areas causes cancer clusters. Unless people like you
can prove conclusively that nuclear power is absolutely safe the
precautionary principle should be applied and attention should be
given instead to reducing energy wastage with a view to reducing
pollution.
