All in All - Not Easy
Posted: Wednesday, 29 November 2006 |
2 comments |
We've had severe winter weather again, recently - storms and rain. The little bay nearby my home has been in constant turmoil; the seaweed was there one moment only to disappear with the next tide. I'll surely get some for the garden later on. the sea birds disappeared too, except for a lonely seagull or two, they seemed out of place without the other visitors.
There doesn't seem to be the same write up about Climate Change these days - certainly not on my news web site.
I am aware that Scotland is away ahead with its total numbers of wind turbines; but I wonder to what extent we can keep this up without dire problems and further controversy. I personally believe that they have a certain efficency in the provision of power, but what ultimate difference are they going to make to the pollution problem as it is extremely prominent world wide.
The production of Nuclear Power still remains to the forefront of many peoples thinking or consideration. We are, at last faced with the prospect that Britain is now on a course to deal with the waste issue which appears likely to be buried in repositories deep underground. It has taken effort to come to this decision after much opposition from various directions to keep the earth, above and below, free of nuclear residue for all time. The deep burial of this material seems to be the only possible option now and for a long time to come.
The question remains, does the world still continue to faviour the nuclear option in spite of the fears of many as regards slumbering dangers and the accidents of the past.
We are looking towards a new prospect : Nuclear fusion. Could this be the answer for safer power. It seems that we won't know for a while yet. Whatever way you look at it both fission and fusion are extremely expensive to harness.
Would it therefore still be better to look in the direction of the sea; the wind; and the sun plus biomass. Well, considering the above possibilities they are worth a chance.
Posted on Island Wanderer at 01:20
Comments
Nuclear fusion - a lot of us will be slumbering in an underground repository before that comes on line. You will sooner see Jeremy Clarkson JR out of a job because public transport makes owning a car unnecessary for most people.
Greg from Glasgow
definately wind power think of a bomb going of in a nuclear plant!!:
carol chauveau from st.dezery,france
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