Starving Steve

Originally Posted by Starving Steve

With all the new windmills in the UK, plus the solar panels, why are you short on oil/gas ? If the green power was half of what it was said to be, the UK should have surplus power now, surplus everything including unused oil/gas.

I really think our/your economic condition right now is so bad that we should go heavily back to oil/gas, hydro-electric, and nuclear. I also think that buying oil from the Middle-East is unwise because of the unsavory governments there, especially that bunch in Iran.

Finally, I believe the long-term future of the world is going to be atomic power, both large-scale power plants as well as small-scale atomic power plants to power neighbourhoods, maybe even one single atomic power plant to power a large shopping centre, maybe a large airport, your government buildings where Big Ben is, maybe a small reactor to power a downtown, maybe one small reactor for a large university complex, or maybe even just for one large skyscraper.

Nuclear could energize railroads by overhead wire. Nuclear may make electric cars viable in future--- by making electricity abundant and cheap.

Finally, environmentalists do constrain the supply of cheap and abundant energy by making for needless (and costly) delays, studies, and legal disputes in the construction of hydro-electric dams, atomic power plants, gas wells, oil wells, coal mines, conventional (hydro-carbon) power plants, etc.

Decades ago when I was a student at the Univ. of California in Berkeley, I was an environmentalist. I did support the green movement. Back then (in the 1960s), I could not envision the environmental movement someday destroying our economy, blocking all progress in energy development, raising energy costs, and forcing the importation of crude oil from terrorist nations in the Middle-East.... I could not envision that the green movement would someday become so anti-growth, so anti-progress, so anti-people, and so anti-Western that the green movement would openly encourage suicide, infanticide, abortion, assisted death for senior citizens; plus poverty, illness, misery, a falling standard of living and economic decline in the Western nations..... I could not imagine that a day would come when the green movement would be so anti-Western and anti-growth that it rather let oil be imported from the Middle-East (from nations like Iran) than to be extracted from new oil fields here at home.