General news!
With acknowledgements to The Daily Telegraph.
WHY THE LIGHTS WILL GO OUT ON BRITAIN!
PLANNED STATION CLOSURES OVER NEXT 10 YEARS
- DIDCOT A,2000 mw(coal)
- KINGSNORTH,1940 mw(coal)
- TILBURY,1428 mw(coal)
- HINKLEY POINT,1420 mw(nuclear)
- HARTLEPOOL,1210 mw(nuclear)
- COCKENZIE,1200 mw(coal)
- HUNTERSTON B,1190 mw(nuclear)
- HEYSHAM 1,1150 mw(nuclear)
- DUNGENESS B,1110 mw(nuclear)
- FERRYBRIDGE C,1000 mw(coal)
- IRONBRIDGE B,1000 mw(coal)
- WYLFA,980 mw(nuclear)
£100 billion by 2020 must be spent to replace lost generating capacity and meet regulations for low carbon alternatives.
2020(80%)
With acknowledgements to IAN FELL Emiritus Professor of Energy at Newcastle University.
"Nuclear will not be ready,renewables will not be able to cope. Gas is getting politically and geographically dangerous to rely upon. Security of supply must take priority over everything including climate change."
When will the politicians,for,it is they who call the shots realise that these things are a waste of time?
Very,very soon I hope!
11 comments:
We doomed, all doomed, I tell you!!! Head for the hills....
Dumdad, just a (true) dig at the green brigade!
Thank feck there's an inexhaustible supply of dead dinosaurs to keep us in coal, oil and gas forever.
But nothing to burn it in!
Well that all sounds deeply depressing, doesn't it?
I tell you, The World is Going To Hell In A Hand Basket!!
Old lady, indeed it does!
I am convinced that one day soon a scientist will come up with a way to turn garbage into fuel. Then landfills will become the new oil fields, and we'll all have a good laugh at those numbnuts...
Aw, Bloody Hell! I just put my comment for the last two postings on the one below this when I meant to put it here!
?tnuwt yllis a I t'nerA
TAWT!!
If what #Debi says comes true do y' reckon the council will pay us to let them take away our rubbish? Whatever they do you can be sure the politicians will find a way to tax us on it - 3 times, and make out its for our own good. Bob.
Hi dreadnought,and welcome.I agree!
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