Bit Late In Writing This...

...but, I was furious with the UK government (noticed the little 'g' there...) and their recent budget talk about investing in nuclear power...and then having the balls to call it 'renewable energy' !

I mean....It isn't...and they know it!

Very angry about that. I did the marches, back in the early 80's, against nuclear power. My mind's not changed about it since then.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

I'd be surprised if they really made such a gaffe, but unfortunately we will never have enough electricity from wind, water and sun alone.

More to the point though is something singularly lacking from all the debates on "energy" - apart from my wondering if most politicians and campaigners even known Energy from Power, let alone have any basic science and engineering knowledge at all.. That missing point is not fuels. It is Materials.

No more petroleum and coal by choice or depletion, fast-dwindling sources of metals although most metals are salvageable at cost of a lot of electricity and some attrition.... then what do we do? We can't run the world just on electricity, even if it always possible to generate enough anyway, by any means.

No more materials, and no more electricity-generating equipment, certainly not as presently designed.

Don't tell the Just-stop-oil goons though. They would not understand it.