Rethink: Radio 4, 16:00 31/10/24 Discussion on Energy without all the hot air
A breath of fresh air and common sense - hope it gains legs!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024fjw
Regards, Toodles.
Toodles, heats his home with cold draughts and cooks food with magnets.
Yes-ish.
I was rather concerned, however, about Sam Richards' comments touting how quickly we were able to build nuclear reactors in the 50s and 60s at half the cost of similar projects now. It completely sidesteps the fact a lot of corners were cut and the likes of Sellafield present a huge management problem now because of mismanagement then. Lots of rose-tinted glasses being used.
That's not to say I necessarily see nuclear power as intrinsically bad, but in an industry that has the power to go bang that loudly one needs to put a lot of trust in those managing it and yet those managing it are fundamentally following the God of profitability. It is being done much better now but that extra oversight is expensive and so nuclear is not the panacea it once was thought to be.
105 m2 bungalow in South East England
Mitsubishi Ecodan 8.5 kW air source heat pump
18 x 360W solar panels
1 x 6 kW GroWatt battery and SPH5000 inverter
1 x Myenergi Zappi
1 x VW ID3
Raised beds for home-grown veg and chickens for eggs
"Semper in excretia; sumus solum profundum variat"
@majordennisbloodnok Wholeheartedly agree Major, someone did mention the negative side of nuclear energy and that storing all that nasty ‘effluent’ [my word, not theirs] or unspent material was a liability (and in my opinion, an accident waiting to happen). I know a number of countries including our near-neighbour France have a high % of nuclear powering but to my way of thinking, it is not as ‘clean’ as they would like us to think. Promote and provide renewables I say - leave uranium and other similar materials deep in the earth where is is safe. Regards, Toodles.
Toodles, heats his home with cold draughts and cooks food with magnets.
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