I did warn you all

• Guest 725

  • Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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  5 October 2012     14:13194377
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  .....and if you think this government or a possible next labour administration will get us out of this mess you stand to be very disappointed and very cold.
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19842401
  
  It's a bit like someone (the BBC) beating you over the head with a club and then reporting the fact on the news. For how long have the BBC poisoned our minds in terms of, erm, renewable energy and sustainability and Attenborough bleating on about overpopulation and climate change and windmills are great and will save the planet blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
  Barry over to you for your er, balanced view on your government's energy policy.
  Or even better perhaps Laura Sandys can give us alll her view.
• Guest 655

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  5 October 2012     14:29194380
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  Philip - I am not a defender of renewables and have said before that we need more nuclear.
  
  All I have defended is the fact that the government must, up to a point, go with the flow on environmental issues. In too many ways though I am with you that they do go too far.
• Guest 710

  • Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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  5 October 2012     14:44194381
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  Not to worry, if the worst comes to the worst...we can do away with TV...we could re-nationalise the railways and convert them to Stevenson's vacuum pipe system. I don't know what all the fuss is about.
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• Guest 693

  • Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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  5 October 2012     16:27194399
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  As some of you on here know, I have very strong contacts with Japan, including many friends on Kyushu and an agent in the southern city of Fukuoka. I can tell you from my friends that Japan, which has been the most solidly pro-nuclear country in the world, despite the horrors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, is now experiencing a near-total desire from the people to abandon nuclear power as the cost in human terms, when things go wrong, is simply too big.
  
  Nobody in Japan ever foresaw the Fukushima disaster because they believed Government rhetoric about nuclear power being safe; the resultant massive loss of life and wiping out of two cities has proved to the Japanese people that nuclear power is massively flawed. Renewable energy cannot be the answer on its own, but it has to be a part of the future. To be frank, I can see a return to fuel-burning power stations on the horizon, a step in the wrong direction, surely.
  True friends stab you in the front.
• Guest 655

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  5 October 2012     17:57194437
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  The ironic thing is that the power station that caused the problems was an old design, the new designs have passive cooling systems that would not fail in that situation. We need to keep it in perspective and not allow emotion to cause a crisis in power generation.
• Guest 710

  • Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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  5 October 2012     18:03194441
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  Once again, longtermism has to be the answer. Not Nuclear just because one must think in terms of many thousands of years, and I read somewhere that the Lake district is back on the cards for the storage of nuclear waste, even though the same area was thought unsuitable even for low-level hospital type waste previously.
  
  Maybe before we contemplate the ending of TV we should review the many convenient ways we use electricity by rethinking house design.
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.