Monbiot.

[Digit]

Looks as though our George has had an attack of common sense. What ever next?

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source ... RQ&cad=rja

Roy.

 

[bugbear]

Just call him "moonboot". Then you can automatically ignore any incovenient facts he comes out with.

Seems to work for most people.

BugBear

 

[Jacob]

I guess Moonboot will be changing his mind quite soon. He wrote that some time ago when the Jap powers stations seemed to be surviving the quake + tsunami. They aren't now.

 

[gasman]

It is farcical the brouhaha which surrounds the whole concept of ionizing radiation and the media. The mortality following Chernobyl was in the 10s or 100s - the Fukushima accident is likely to be much less than this yet it dominates the headlines day after day after day. Thousands and thousands died in the tsunami which caused it yet that gets no attention after a couple of weeks until a dog is found alive at sea(!). I just don't get it. Rant over sorry

 

[Jacob]

it all depends on your sources http://www.greenpeace.org/international ... hs-180406/
Earthquake/Tsunami are natural disasters beyond our control (other than being prepared, building regs, evacuation etc.). Once they are over so is the death count (more or less).
Nuclear power disaster is man made and resultant death, disease and disability can go on for a long time.

 

[Digit]

Nuclear power disaster is man made and resultant death, disease and disability can go on for a long time.

And the long term death toll from mining is......how many?
How many die from drunken driving?
Deaths in Japan's fishing fleet is in thousands since Nagasaki.
All things should be looked at in context, as GM states. The part that puzzles me is the manner in which GM produces his facts as though they are in some way new.
France has numerous N powered generators, they supply us with lecky when the hot air stops blowing the turbines.
Most of Japan's N power is from a 60s 'cheapo' design that GE couldn't get licenced in the US.

Roy.

 

[gnu]

The alternative to nuclear energy is to cover the green hills, open spaces and coast of Britain with wind turbines.

 

[Digit]

And pray for wind! I live within sight of the sea on Cardiagn Bay. The wind speed record is 106 mph, about once in a lifetime!
I have yet to see all our local turbines at spinning at the same time, if at all!

Roy.

 

[wobblycogs]

The problem the UK would have with renewables isn't that they don't work it's that there just isn't enough renewable energy available in UK for all the people living on this little island. Perhaps if 90% of the population left we would be able to live off renewable energy but I don't see that happening any time soon.

What most people forget is that we don't only have to provide the electricity we currently use in a renewable or clean way (which would be fairly easy) we have to provide all the energy we use for heating and transport cleanly too which is a very difficult problem.

Have a read of this book (there's a free download) http://www.withouthotair.com/, it spells out the problem very clearly. The author is anti-nuclear but is forced to conclude that short of a miracle advance in fusion power we have to build nuclear power stations.