> Boltar yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>

>> As usual greenpeace complain about just about bloody everything.
>> Perhaps they'd be happier if the CO2 was just released into the
>> atmosphere instead of the power company trying to make an effort to
>> sequester it. They're just becoming a parody. Probably full of muppets
>> like Doug.

>
> There was a program on R4 last week where someone ex-~Greenpeace made
> much the same point. As he said, the environmental lobby needs to stop
> beign anti-everything negative know-alls (like Duhg), and to get off the
> fence and decide which technologies they support and which they don't.
>
> Interestingly he was against wind power on the basis that it isn't
> performing that well in Denmark where 20%% of installed capacity is wind
> generation and Denmark has the advantage of being able to balance its
> load by feeding surpluses to Germany, Sweden and Holland. The UK doesn't
> have the ability to balance load in the same way and needs to install
> pump storage (which doesn't exist and isn't scheduled to be built).
>
> There's another problem as well. All the manufacturers of wind turbines
> have full order books for the next two years at least and arent taking
> any new orders at present. Attempts to use cheap Chinese turbines have
> ended in disaster.
>
> Ooh look, nuclear and sequestered CO2 coal fired.