Nuclear Power is not going away.......or is it?

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Originally Posted by Mark

But we are used to cars which are all purpose. e.g. You may just drive 10 miles to work and back every day most of the time so would do fine on a single charge, but most people don't like the idea of paying a lot of money for a car which will do only that. As now and again you might want to drive 300 miles up to the Isle of Skye and back home again, you need to be sure that you aren't going to run out of juice when you're half way up the Bealach Na Ba.

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Yes, but you'll merely pull up to the battery change over place and swap over batteries.

The situation we're facing in the UK is quite serious, more than people realise. A good number of our coal stations are coming to end of life and will be shut down - not just because they're too old but that the EU places a number of hours run time limit upon them! We've got precious little to fall back on apart from wind turbines, the problem with them is that quite often the contribution to the national grid is so small it doesn't even reach 1%, and we're putting all our hopes into that?!

The ideal is to reduce our consumption to sensible levels, but that can't happen for a generation or more, but we're facing a severe power shortage in less than 5 years!

I guess what will mostly happen is that we'll end up importing much of our electricity from France, generated using nuclear power, which we are supposedly so opposed to.

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Originally Posted by Mark

I guess what will mostly happen is that we'll end up importing much of our electricity from France, generated using nuclear power, which we are supposedly so opposed to.

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It's the NIMBY phenomenon in full swing :)

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Originally Posted by Mark

I guess what will mostly happen is that we'll end up importing much of our electricity from France, generated using nuclear power, which we are supposedly so opposed to.

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The 2GW cross channel interconnector is already running at full capacity importing French nuclear electrcity. The new 1GW NedLink to Holland is about to start (or just has). I can't see that doing any exporting and these interconnectors are only equivalent to three decent sized power stations between them. Don't forget it isn't just the coal stations that are nearing the end of their lives, all our nuclear stations (except the PWR at Sizewell) are closing in the next few years.

Successive governments have known about this issue but haven't done anything about it as they wanted to avoid the protests that would result from building new coal or nuclear stations, when that's exactly what's required here.

Putting your head in the sand and murmuring 'oh renewables' isn't going to cut it.

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Yes, but you'll merely pull up to the battery change over place and swap over batteries.

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Oh ja sure.
Let's see the amount of gasoline that takes up the space of the average car battery will get on from forty to twenty miles depending on vehicle.
The space of the number of batteries neccessary in even an econobox, to go-- lets be optimistic-- fifty miles, would hold enough gasoline or diesel fuel to send a vehicle from 300-600 miles minimum.

So these battery filling stations to service the same number cars as the average gasoline station would be the size of a large railroad depot.

BRILLIANT!

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Originally Posted by Daniel

It's the NIMBY phenomenon in full swing :)

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Yes that is why the morons fight the far more intelligent coal fired plants so hard-- oh wait it is not their back yard is it?

the thread is baaaaack . . . . . :bandit:

It will ruffle some feathers but what the heck.

As you know, I am no fan of nuclear energy and hearing news like this one gives me hope.

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Switzerland To Phase Out Nuclear Power
Switzerland has decided to make a ban on nuclear power plants permanent. The country's cabinet has called for a gradual decommissioning of its five nuclear power plants. Germany also has announced it would start shutting down its nuclear power program.

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http://www.npr.org/2011/05/26/136669...-nuclear-power

And what will Switzerland do to get it's power? My guess is that it will probably import it, from the French nuclear power stations.

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Originally Posted by mark

and what will switzerland do to get it's power? My guess is that it will probably import it, from the french nuclear power stations.

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nimby wins!!!!