> Steve Firth wrote:

>> 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.

>
> Just a correction, pumped storage does exist in the UK although not much.
> FFESTINIOG & DINORWIG in Wales & I believe some may be planned in
> Scotland.
> There may be others.