Comments on: No New Nukes in the UK Petition

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:33:45 +0000

Fair point Kevin. Small scale wind energy I can deal with – a windmill in the garden or on the roof to provide each house with a source of energy is a great plan. Tidal energy – it’s a shame we didn’t fund one of our leading wave energy companies on this and he had to go work for Portugal instead:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4563077.stm
Instead of leading the way we’ll be playing catch-up on it.

With nuclear it does seem strange that the radioactive waste cannot be reprocessed into a less dangerous isotope or a non-radioactive compound before it is dumped, perhaps utilising some of the nuclear energy that the material originally produced to power that process. Ah but that would eat into the profits of the power companies, so no chance of that then. If the nuclear industry was forced by law to reprocess into a safe waste material I’m sure we’d see a lot more supporters of nuclear.

I do stand by my statements that these giant windfarms are bad news. The industrialisation of our wild landscapes is something that will affect future generations and I’d rather not pass that onto my son either.

By: Kevin Humphrey

Kevin Humphrey — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:10:22 +0000

Hey Adam – What about solar? Small scale wind? Tidal power? Conservation? We have so many other options available to us. Nukes are simply not sensible in my mind.

Personally, my biggest issue with nuke power is the waste management. I believe it is supremely arrogant of us as a society to burden future generations with having to deal with the radioactive crap that we produce today. We do not have the right to do that and we need to stop doing it as soon as humanly possible. We have other options.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:02:40 +0000

I happen to like nuclear power stations. They are a great family day out they give you free tea and coffee when you visit (it doesn’t cost them much to boil the water).
Seriously though, one power station is much kinder on the eyes than a hundred windfarms spoiling the mountains, as we’re finding out in all UK upland areas right now.
If you want to talk fabrication, then compare the amount of energy required to create the cement and mine the aggregate for giant concrete foundations required to support a 120m windmill in a peat bog against that for a power station per kilowatt generated, I think power stations might just end up more in favour.
And do you think that in 30 years time when these windmills rust and start to fall down that these upstart little power companies that have sprung up to build them will be around to decommission the units and remove the foundations, restoring the hill to it’s previous state? No, me neither.
In fact I think they should start an alternative petition to highlight people’s wishes for more nuclear power and less windmills. Save our hills.

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