Green madness

[asperity]

http://tinyurl.com/4eprud

 

This man says it better than I ever could. Our politicians are living in a dream and need to be shaken awake before the lights go out and we all starve/freeze to death.

[Legion]

Well, while not entirely in agreement, our current situation of depending on the fickle freindship of russia, in jeopardy due to the geogia situation, our selling of OUR north sea gas to EDF in france because we no longer have the capacity to store it in the uk, at bulk discount rates and then buying it back as we need it at retail rate is just throwing money away.

 

the powers GAS/ELECTRIC and BP need to be nationalised, we need to stop extracting north sea gas now until we can store it for exclusivly brittish usage in the future. and nuclear power stations should be built to meet our needs ASAP, we cannot rely on foreign supply for ANYTHING essential, especialy while our own industries are flagging yeat our demand for supply is thriving.

[observer]

Agree Legion, except for the Nuclear Power Station bit; self sufficiency in everything possible needs to be the goal; and they need to get their finger out as future power cuts are now being prophesied, due to a lack of energy production capacity.

[Paul Kennedy]

Gas fired power stations are the easiest to be built, so our North Sea output could be piped directly to them if they were to be built along the cost....each one could have it's own storage capacity.

[observer]

But we're told that the N/Sea gas is running out. Certainly need storage capacity though, as Legion rightly says. However, we have a thousand years of coal under our feet; mountains for resevoirs and hydro-electric schemes, river esturies for counter flood barriers and tidal turbines - we just need a Government with the capacity to just get on with it - but hopefully not on the basis of PFI schemes!