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[Polarbear]

What's the problem with sticking nuclear waste on a rocket and firing it into the sun or something similar.

No, it's not cheap but then neither will electricity be when all our fossil fuel generators are shut down.

The only way renewables can plug the gap is with huge investment in projects like the Severn barrage, and no government is going ti invest that much or go up against the greens protecting nesting sites and the like.

https://www.reuk.co.uk/wordpress/tidal/severn-barrage-tidal-power/

Unless there is a breakthrough in some other technology, nuclear is the only mass generation that will work.
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To my mind unless we reduce our need for commercially produced energy, whatever that may be, we are up sticky creek. In the future we simply won't be able to plug something in and expect it to work without it costing lots more than it does now.

Likewise we need to reduce our reliance upon goods transported over long distance relatively cheaply. We won't be running about in domestic vehicles on the scale we are now, nor will it be economic to transport high volume, heavy goods quickly by road because carbon-based fuel will be too expensive and a decline in its use will lead to a decline in the production of new vehicles, maintenance of existing ones etc etc etc. It will become a spiral, with the only oil-based transport left at the end that which has commercial viability (like a small engine in a large boat), or a bit of 'speciality' fuel for rich people to run classics.

We won't have to make use of the new generation of nuclear power stations beyond 2040 (my estimate) because use of electricity will decline as it becomes more expensive and the grid will decay to the point where it is uneconomic to repair.

What will grow however is localised CHP and this will continue for those with sufficient wealth and firepower to keep the starving masses at bay.

It is a gloomy picture, however we have a combination of factors unique to our period in time about to converge - overpopulation, global warming and the end of a cheap but environmentally destructive fuel source.

Happy Christmas!
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[Sister Sledge]

People forget that nuclear generation of electricity began with the making of weapons grade products. Sellafied, or whatever it was called back in its early days had electricity pylons leading to it - they brought electricity to the site and not away!! The public were misled for years.
Nuclear power generates so much crap it's unreal. Sure there's the fuels and byproducts but you also have other contaminated waste from equipment all the way through to overalls and other PPE.
Concrete much at those sites too = CO2.
Thorium reactors are still decades off being acceptable.

What surprised me was the UK and its need for electricity. Think about all of those industries we've lots and how efficient everything is now - yet we use far more electricity these days. I find that staggering.
One wasteful example is lit main roads - why?? Roads not used by pedestrians and vehicles using them have lights so do they illuminate the bloody things? Such a waste that.

I actually hope we head back a bit with our thinking and start using local produce more often. A return to those times seems fair enough. Less use of electricity would be good too.

I have no idea how congestion charges got me here.
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[Lord Percy]

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[Sister Sledge]

[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

[M.C]

[chickenstrip]

[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

https://cnduk.org/campaigns/no-nuclear-power/
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[Sister Sledge]

We can't have nuclear power anyway - I live in one of those 'Nuclear Free Zones' or whatever bollox that is.
Not a single resident voted for that status and one day the signs were silently taken down..
Might have been something to do with it being pointed out to local politicians that medical facilities, industry, education and food services use nuclear materials!
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[chickenstrip]

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Not wishing to reignite this topic, but this is for the benefit of anybody that thinks that we won't turn to alternatives to the internal combustion engine for freight in this country....

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/inland-port-could-be-operational-in-leeds-by-spring-2020-1-9221741
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[Polarbear]

If Canal and River Trust are involved it will be an utter fuck up. I deal with them just about every day and they are the epitome of 'Organise, brewery and can't'
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

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It isn't as daft as it seems in terms of location of industry, because the industrial revolution was originally water-powered, then coal-powered with the coal transported along watercourses. Much of the despoiled land and remaining industry in the UK is close to the canal and inland waterway network for this very reason.
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