08-24-2011, 02:16 PM
i think we have oil for hundreds of years yet which doesn't include the new fields which will come on line in the arctic etc.
i used to like nuke power till i heard of windpower proper. we could in theory replace a station at a time, we have enough windswept areas, we already have one of the biggest wp farms in the sea. okay, a portion of countryside would arguably be scarred but i think it would be a small price to pay to get rid of the oil cole and nuke (even though nuke is classed as alternative) power. we can build them high enough to stand among our fir and pine forests (and we have a lot of those in windy areas) so as to not destroy the landsacpe too much. they could be erected on farmlands as well. at present and i know it's cliché; held ransom to oil, the we breastfeeds on the teat of oil and pay through the nose for it. much better to spend that money on manufactured goods (even those which need oil to be made) sadly the uk gove gets a bigger percentage of income from oil than it would from a person buying a manufactured product, it would hate to lose its booze cigs and oil cash cows.
i used to like nuke power till i heard of windpower proper. we could in theory replace a station at a time, we have enough windswept areas, we already have one of the biggest wp farms in the sea. okay, a portion of countryside would arguably be scarred but i think it would be a small price to pay to get rid of the oil cole and nuke (even though nuke is classed as alternative) power. we can build them high enough to stand among our fir and pine forests (and we have a lot of those in windy areas) so as to not destroy the landsacpe too much. they could be erected on farmlands as well. at present and i know it's cliché; held ransom to oil, the we breastfeeds on the teat of oil and pay through the nose for it. much better to spend that money on manufactured goods (even those which need oil to be made) sadly the uk gove gets a bigger percentage of income from oil than it would from a person buying a manufactured product, it would hate to lose its booze cigs and oil cash cows.