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DamonHD:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/7402204.stm
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

Capt Slog:
Quote from the BBC....
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."
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DamonHD:
Interestingly I saw something that suggested that the energy that goes into making nuclear power (construction, handling, mining, disposal) per kWh generated is similar to wind!
Rgds
Damon

finnsawyer:
Right now in the U.S. the cost of disposing of the nuclear waste seems to be tending toward infinity.  Namely because they have been storing it in casks in such locations as on the shore of one of the Great Lakes.

Jon Miller:
Capt Slog,
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.  

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