11-09-2022, 05:45 PM
(11-09-2022, 05:12 PM)bluetagagain Wrote:(11-09-2022, 03:07 PM)Pedalo_menders Wrote:(11-09-2022, 12:29 PM)exterminator Wrote:(11-09-2022, 09:21 AM)Tufnell_Chimes Wrote: How many sections did your walk take Scouse? I’d like to walk it before Cuadrilla drill the shit out of it.
I agree with you on this one Tuffers - should never be allowed in a small country like ours. We can be self sufficient and more sell to other ciuntries eventually using solar, wind & mini nuclear reactors, so no need to destroy the environment.
The water supply contamination caused by the toxix chemicals they use & mini earthquakes that fracking can cause to both human & wildlife & the countryside far outweighs any benefits.
Agreed
Although I also think mini nuclear is a terrible idea. We can barely maintain the plants we have, there is no workable plan to cope with the nuclear waste (which is lethal for 100,000 years), and what happens when someone tries to blow one up or cut off the power to one of them? And that's before mentioning that they cost about 300%-500% more than renewables.
Lots of things wrong there Pedalo. I’ve worked closely with the Nuclear industry for the last 15 yrs or so until i retired. We can maintain our nuclear power stations as we have a very skilled, young and ambitious work force. What we can’t do is replace the many ageing reactors we have( ( Dungeness etc). The problem is getting someone to build the new stations . Hinckley and Sizewell have had to cap in hand to the French , Japanese, Saudis etc but it was only the Chinese who could come up with money. It will take the UK over 20 yrs to see a profit on these as the KW price we’ve agreed with China goes to them.
Nuclear energy is very very clean it’s just the spent fuel half life that’s a problem. Regarding nuclear waste , we do it well imo and if we learn the lessons from Fukushima then we’ll improve even more.
IMO we need more Solar power stations , Biofuel stations and small nuclear power
You've not actually addressed any of the problems I mentioned. Rather, you've actually backed up what I have said. We can't maintain the plants we have,due to the aging reactors. This is costly and dangerous. That's why they are being decommissioned at a cost of tens of billions of pounds.
We have a skilled workforce but need to go cap in hand the Chinese to build a nuclear powerplant for us. Bit of an oxymoron, that? What could possibly go wrong there, paying an aggressive superpower to build national infrastructure requiring military grade nuclear knowledge? We still are dealing with the 5G spying issues so let's have a little think before asking the Chinese to build us a nuclear power plant shall we?
And thank you for also pointing out that they are ridiculously expensive and that basically they are a money pit that means we will be paying tens of billions to the Chinese for the privilege.
"Just the spent fuel that's the problem"? It's an absolutely massive fooking problem. One that doesn't have a viable solution. And you want to expand this problem further? Again, it is prohibitively expensive and dangerous. Nuclear power has been around for about 70 years and still, no-one has been able to solve the nuclear waste issue.
The final nail in the coffin for nuclear is that hydrogen production will remove the problem of intermittentcy of wind power. And at a drastically lower risk and financial cost.