Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#1
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
#2
A great initiative. We need more of them.
Too many scare stories about this type of energy. I'm sure that Dungeness would have been pleased to have a new one there.
Roger
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
- Posts: 1,418
#3
Yeah, er, hooray. We only have to pay twice the wholesale rate for electricity. Great result. Even better we use other countries expertise and money to build them.
Even better with the roll out of more wind and solar farms we only pay three times the price for our energy.
Fantastic result for the nation.
The UK- World leaders in bankrupting ourselves.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
- Posts: 7,819
#4
Extraordinary turnaround in events and fortunes.
I believe Britain built the first ever Nuclear Power station. Yet here we are some 50 or something years later and we have lost the technology, lost the expertise. We now rely on French expertise and Communist money. As Radio4 said this morning...look at this for bitter irony...communism saving the day!!
If ever there was an example of the shrinking planet then this is it.
and if ever there was an example of communism having the last laugh then this is it.
Loud guffaw at the back there
Must be coming from Beijing.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
- Posts: 1,418
#5
Better get used to groundhog day over the next few decades. Every time energy prices are pushed up we will have a re-run of the news we have had since the fool miliband dreamed up his stupid scheme of freezing prices.
Idiots from the green lobby insisting that we invest in renewables to save the planet and lower bills (which is why I describe them as idiots), tories talking about energy security which is 180 degrees from what this latest deal represents and labour setting up trestle tables in high streets up and down the land with post it notes showing how Mrs. Scroggins would manage to save fifteen pounds off her energy bill.
We have coal, we have companies who could build coal fired power stations to give us cheaper energy but we still insist on economic suicide by not exploiting this fantastic resource, instead shipping wood pellets from the other side of the Atlantic to power what remains of our existing coal stations.
Furthermore we have dystopian types up and down the country stopping us from investing in what may or may not be our energy savior which is shale gas.
We are doomed.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,247
#6
PaulB wrote:Extraordinary turnaround in events and fortunes.
I believe Britain built the first ever Nuclear Power station. Yet here we are some 50 or something years later and we have lost the technology, lost the expertise. We now rely on French expertise and Communist money. As Radio4 said this morning...look at this for bitter irony...communism saving the day!!
If ever there was an example of the shrinking planet then this is it.
and if ever there was an example of communism having the last laugh then this is it.
Loud guffaw at the back there
Must be coming from Beijing.
There is nothing Communist about the money of China except nominally in the name of the ruling Party. China embraced capitalism and it is that driving their emergence as a major economic power.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,321
#7
And taking over, sorry, investing in Africa.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
- Posts: 3,370
#8
So let's look at what's actually happened
The conservative's party ,have sold of British taxpayers owned generating for peanuts
Then they run the PowerStation into the ground, siphoning of all profits to shareholder Instead of using the profits to reinvest in new PowerStation generation
So after the mass theft of the profits ,they now intend to build PowerStation's under the PFI system and charge the British public 2 or 3 times more for there power
Ps. Don't forget the asset striping or the green energy taxes pilling on the misery
And that's just the electricity.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
- Posts: 4,010
#9
The new Power Station will cost £ 16 billion,,,,,Tax evasion / avoidance costs £ 30 plus billion
The cheats could buy two.......With Capitalism ......lights go out....With some communist money
.........lights stay on ............funny old world ain`t it......
David Cameron hails nuclear power plant deal as big day for BritainPlanned reactors at Hinkley will be first to begin construction since Fukushima disaster and will come online in 2023
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The energy secretary, Ed Davey, claimed it was a great deal for consumers and would result in energy bills falling by more than £75 by 2030.
He added: "If we don't make these essential investments ... we're going to see the lights going out."
The 35-year deal, struck at £92.50 per megawatt hour, is twice the current wholesale market rate for electricity, and will be attacked by some as a massive subsidy to help another non-carbon fuel, with the funds going to the French taxpayer and the Chinese government, which has a minority stake to build the new plant at Hinkley C in Somerset.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#10
the threat to our long term power supply has been discussed then brushed under the carpet for about 20 years to my knowledge, it is because we done nothing sooner that is the reason it will hit us so hard in the pocket now and in the future.
