The Lights Going Off Has Moved A Little Bit Closer !

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34149392

We desperately need more electricity generating capability, and yet Hinkley Point now looks as if it will never get built. Or if it will be built, it may be too late to provide the power we need in the near future. What shortsightedness this is. We can't continue to bury our heads in the sand here. One day, in the near future we face the real possibility of coming home and not being able to turn a light on.

[douglas9401]

Ah! But we'll have to suffer to reverse dangerous climate scam, get with the programme, mikey.

When Eden returns we can all have our electricity back. In the meantime there's wind farms.

[mikey4444]

Currently about 31% of our electricity is still generated by coal-fired power stations, but they won't last much longer.

We need new nuclear power stations Dougie. Wind farms will help and the new tidal barrage that hopefully will soon be built at Swansea will help as well. But its large power stations that will continue to provide the lions share of our electricity needs and the delay in starting Hinkley Point C is a huge mistake and a disgrace.

[Svejk]

We should have continued with the massive power schemes that Labour started in their 13 year tenure.

[whiskeryron]

The answer is of course your very own Solar Panels.

[Togo]

We must all learn to live like the Polar bears that the hand wringers and doom predictors so revere. The builders of the power units will not invest in the required power plants when the reality, is years of 'protest' and fence wailing from the sanctimoniously inclined.

[-Talbot-]

We are leaving ourselves open to be held to ransom not only on electricty but food too. A very strange thing to do considering there is no need for either.

[anotheoldgit]

Electricity is not the only thing that this country will be short of if we support your reasoning to let in hordes of people.

But one thing certain we will not be short of, and that is mouths to feed.

[ToraToraTora]

Nuclear power is the only way forward. Stop pi55ing about with windmills etc and build some nuclear power plants and then keep them going forever. simples!

[bazwillrun]

how many times have we heard this over the years ?... just another way to price hike using "investment needed" as the excuse

[bazwillrun]

@TTT

exactly

[DTCwordfan]

nuclear power plants do not run forever - wit Windscale/Seascale, 3 Mile Island, Trojan, Gentilly, Mol, Brennis, Cadarache, Crey-Maville or Berkely - or the Japanese plants - and that's by no means all of them....

[Togo]

And tell the eco mentalists to 'frack' off.

[DTCwordfan]

now that I agree with - much ado about nothing and it opens up huge reserves of gas, no pun intended.....also we should look at black oil in the North-East and deep-hydrocracking of it, the Teeside refinery an ideal site.

[Togo]

Here here DT. The Yanks are self sufficient and powering a huge economic recovery over there after a concerted gas fracking programme. They buy no oil or gas from the OPEC gangsters and have brought down the global price of oil as a result. This has thwarted Putin and reduced the price even over here. Petrol and diesel prices have tumbled as has the price of our domestic gas. We should do likewise.

[DTCwordfan]

well I don't think that we will influence the pump or stove/boiler prices as these are set by the global traders at the margin. However, some incentive through tax could be given to fracking and black oil - and Teeside would benefit as to employment. British recoverable reserves in black oil are humengous, thought to be over 20 billion BoE off Teeside and Quadrant 9....three projects alone are looking to deliver over 1 billion barrels.

[Khandro]

Whiskeryron; // The answer is of course your very own Solar Panels./
But the sun doesn't shine in Wales.

[retrocop]

Whiskeryron
Who do you work for or are you on the board of Directors? :-)
Do you not recall the recent hoot when the Green Party's one and only Civic Hall burnt down in Brighton and Hove due to faulty solar panels. Somewhat ironic ??

[retrocop]

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/04/21/bonfire-of-insanity-solar-panels-start-fire-at-green-party-run-hove-town-hall/

This is the link incase you missed it

[ToraToraTora]

that's the point togo, I think they can run indefinitely if that is the aim, thus avoiding decommissioning, I know there is expensive refitting necessary from time to tim but that is in effect building a new station in place of the old one but without the costs of decommissioning, that is essentially what the french have done.

[kirkcudbright]

Anyone read Paul Homewood's blog notalotofpeopleknowthat ? Very interesting! Sunday Telegraph journalist Christopher Booker gets a lot of stats and information from it