Re: "Nuclear energy 'not the solution to global warming"

On 28 Mar, 17:04, deza...@xxxxxxx wrote:

Ireland has opted for 80% of electricity from Wind as a target.

Ireland wont. They dont have the hydro resources to do 80% wind for
dispatching and they'll be unwilling to have higher electricity prices
than even the Danes. Heres what will happen: They'll talk the talk
untill power crunches set in and then just build more coal plants. Its
happened in Germany allready.

YEAH! The British Coal industry could produce 50-100 million tons of
coal a year and sell some to Ireland & Germany
(which has a lot of lignite, but very little anthracite) (or transmit
electricity via a high voltage d.c. power cable) It's better than
burning peat.
If they enationalised the coal mining industry and told the truth
about the extent of coal reserves in Britain, Invested money in
efficient power stations and re-built the mining communities, it would
be a good outcome.
It would still represent only a fraction of the 3,000 million tons the
US and China produce every year.
It's the global emission of CO2 that matters and that can only be
arrived at by an international agreement which recognises the specific
energy situation of each country.
It won't happen with international anarchy of production.

Yes, wind does an excellent job at propping up coal

Along with pumped storage reservoirs which prop up coal far better
than nuclear power stations.

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