Re: Climate Change?

On 2010-08-11, Albert Ross <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:18:55 +0100, Malcolm
<Malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


In article <4c61aa0f$0$28007$db0fefd9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Old Codger
<oldcodger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
On 10/08/2010 20:12, Steve B wrote:
In article<4c6062da$0$28014$db0fefd9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
oldcodger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...

Conserving resources is always good and increasingly becoming essential.
As you say, alternative forms of energy are also becoming highly
desirable, if not essential. Trouble is wind is not viable on its own,
and probably not at all. Solar needs considerable development before it
can be viable. Wave and tide are a long way behind. Nuclear is the
only current viable option and the government is so dilatory that the
lights will go out before they take any real action.

Chris Huhne was on the Today(R4) programme yesterday morning talking about
the governments nuclear policy. He was saying that the first new nuclear
station would be commissioned by 2018. I read elsewhere that 10 stations are
planned.

But we need at least all ten before the lights go out and IIRC that is
likely to be before 2018.

If everyone using their computers to idly chat on the internet turned
them off, I'm sure that could be postponed to at least 2019.

Ah but if everyone scrapped their computers and replaced them with new
ones the power required would drop significantly.

Not nearly enough to make up for the manufacturing energy though.

depends. I just put in a new motherboard, etc,etc, and the powerunit recommended
is 550w. The powerunit I took out was 200w. (What is drawn down is different?)
.

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