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Written by NucNet
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Monday, 18 August 2008 |
Dear Editor
Robin Webster, (Friends of the Earth) and Robin Oakley, (Greenpeace)
present a misleading picture in stating that Denmark generates a
quarter of its electricity from renewable sources and there is no
reason that we cannot do so too.
For long periods in January, Danish wind turbines provide no useful
power so that reserve fossil fuel plants have to be employed. As a
consequence CO2 output per capita in Denmark is about twice that of
Sweden, France and Switzerland where electricity is almost all hydro or
nuclear. Since Greenpeace objects to hydro, nuclear and coal plants, if
we followed their policies we will have increasing CO2 output as well as power cuts and more hypothermia deaths.
Paul Spare |
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Written by NucNet
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Saturday, 23 August 2008 |
Dear Sir,
Over the last two years, the Labour Government and Conservative Party have recognised the impending crisis in our energy supplies – recently evinced by unprecedented increases in the price of gas and oil. They have belatedly begun to take advice from professional engineers in the sector that consistently supplies electricity with 99.98% security of supply, with plans for replacement nuclear plants.
Nick Clegg and the Libdems in contrast in their 'Apollo' Project are proposing reliance on intermittent and uncontrollable sources such as the sun, wind and waves. If Mr Clegg had consulted some electrical engineers they would have explained that electricity for 60 million UK residents has to be available the instant that it is required. Only a small contribution can be accepted from unstable supplies that can collapse to zero, when needed most in freezing January and generate too much in a summer gale.
His proposals are a recipe for the collapse of our computer-controlled economy and increased numbers of hypothermia deaths.
Yours truly,
Paul Spare |
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Written by NucNet
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
22 Aug (NucNet): South Africa's Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR)
project has moved a step closer to the construction of a
commercial-scale demonstration unit at Koeberg near Cape Town with the
signing of a contract for the provision of engineering, procurement,
project and construction management (EPCM) services for the plant.
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