http://investor.fluor.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=124955&p=newsarticle&id=1145283
All signed today, it seems.
Now, should I add another 1-Watt turbine to my wind farm? B^>
Rgds
Damon
Power from the 140 turbines would help cut carbon dioxide emissions by 1.5m tonnes a year - equivalent to taking 350,000 cars off the road.
They're always banging on about that angle, CO2 emmisions and what it's equivalent to.
I wish for once they'd say. "about the same cost as nuclear power station, but with no radioactivity, no waste, and no expensive decommisioning."
."Slowly changing the world, one watt at a time!"
Damon[ Parent ]
Nuclear is a low carbon, base power generation method. Waste is a very big issue but the UK wouldnt have a national centralised gird without nuclear and the associated advantages of distributing large wind farm's power to consumers. Jon M
www.otherpower.co.uk "I am certainly not a perfectionist, the thing is to know where you can take short c[ Parent ]
Of course some nay sayers will mention that there is a difference between fusion and our current way of doing it, that's why the ITER experiment is so important.
http://www.iter.org/a/index_nav_1.htm
Powerbuoy
Reprocessing (ie making better use of the fuel we have), Thorium, fusion, etc, are all potentially 'improved' alternatives to earlier generations of nuke.
But in any case, as a highly-principled close relative of mine was instrumental in gaining the planning permission for one of the UK's largest nukes, and by happy chance that's now where the power will land from the 500MW wind farm AFAIK, then I'm already sold on nuclear, if it's done right. B^>
