Money is just blown in the wind (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Money is just blown in the wind
3:08pm Tuesday 7th February 2012 in Opinion
WHY is the Government so intent on installing ugly, expensive and inefficient wind farms that are disfiguring our countryside?
If there’s no wind, then no electricity.
That’s madness!
I was driving from Hebden Bridge to Burnley over the Long Causeway the other day and got the impression of being somewhere quite alien and moon-like.
There were these huge wind turbines, which were not moving — but silently telling me they are costing each one of us more than £50 a year.
Surely the way forward is to build nuclear power stations, ensuring that this country is power rich and free from the threat to our fuel supplies that we are now reliant upon from overseas?
So, it seems we are no longer using teapots.
I, like most people I know, do brew up in mugs, but on a tray in my larder is a teapot, with four cups and saucers, ‘at the ready’, for when friends drop in.
It occurred to me how wasteful teabags are.
We must use about 20 odd a day at our house, but if I used a teapot I could cut that down to 12.
Multiply that by every family in the country and we are literally throwing ‘bags’ of money away.
Also, instead of having to get up to make another cuppa, the teapot would be there on the table, waiting to be poured.
It might also mean tea cosies coming back into vogue!
The Royal Society of St George is making plans for ‘Jubilee Day’ and, among other things, we are hoping to have a plethora of Blackburn bands playing in King William Street, near the town hall and a small fairground.
If you have any interesting suggestions for the day, they would be welcomed.
I must also say a big ‘thank you’ to Thwaites Brewery, which has once again sponsored £1,000 for our St George’s commemorative day in Blackburn Cathedral on April 21 — of course all are welcome.
I enjoyed a family Sunday lunch at Samlesbury Hall with a splendid roast beef dinner, just like my mother used to think she made. Wonderful!
Comments(3)
Between_the_lions
says...
7:11pm Wed 8 Feb 12
Also, place one in every cell in every prison. 3 men to a cell, 8 hour shifts, 24 hour electricity production.
Cathan2
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5:23pm Wed 22 Feb 12
The UK now has enough radioactive waste to fill the Royal Albert Hall five times over.
The government plans to bury it deep underground - out of sight, out of mind, for now at least. But no one can guarantee that this highly radioactive waste won't leak back into the environment, contaminating water supplies and the food chain.
This nuclear waste will remain dangerous for up to a million years: an outrageous legacy to leave for many generations to come.
Aside from the risk of a terrorist strike directly onto a nuclear power station, the nuclear industry transports thousands of tonnes of radioactive waste around the UK by road, rail and sea.
Nuclear waste is taken from wherever it is produced, across the country, to Sellafield in Cumbria for reprocessing.
The UK now has a stockpile of over a hundred tonnes of deadly plutonium - and no plans for what to do with it.
One of the fundamental problems of nuclear power is the hazard posed by the radioactive materials it produces – some of which can be used in nuclear weapons and all of which can be used in so-called dirty bombs. Just one particle of plutonium can be fatal.
The clean up costs for the UK’s existing nuclear industry and its waste have alone been estimated at up to £100bn. That's £100bn of public money.
How long would it take to dismantle a wind turbine?
What lethal waste products would there be from wind turbines?
I suggest you go up Black Combe Hill in Cumbria. There's Sellafield one way and a hill of wind turbines the other. Go bathing in the seas off Sellafield with your children and grandchildren if you are so confident of the safety of nuclear power.
DJ_Jaybee says...
2:49am Wed 8 Feb 12
Wind farms are also expensive to build and maintain.
Solar power, panels / tiles are becoming cheaper and much more efficient all the time to store power in deep cycle batteries... but every home and company converting to their own energy source isn't going to be promoted by the big energy companies - they will keep pushing methods that require you to buy the energy from them for as long as they can.