Re: Windfarms and railways - blade hazard?

"David Hansen" <SENDdavidNOhSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> A result of this, "our policy is that we have no policy", approach
> is the announcement yesterday by Powergen (E.ON) that they want to
> build a gas fired power station. That is a prime example of short
> term thinking, there are already lots of the things and the
> likelihood of it getting gas at a reasonable price over the decades
> to come must be slim. Markets are (sometimes) good at short term
> thinking, but generally no good at all at long term planning.

Indeed.

The UK's "dash for gas" will, I think, eventually be recognized as one of
the great strategic follies of the late 20th Century. When the electricity
generators have gobbled up the remaining deposits of gas (or, more likely,
we are held to ransom by the countries which own it), I wonder how I and
millions of others will be able to fuel our cookers and central heating?
Premium fuels, such as gas for domestic use, and gasoline / diesel for road
(and rail - wow, back on topic) vehicles should surely be reserved for those
purposes, while less readily-distributed fuels such as heavy oil, coal or
nuclear (and wind, in the right place) are used for electricity generation.

I can't believe that it's beyond the wit of man to devise effective and
reasonably economical methods of trapping the oxides of suphur, carbon and
nitrogen emitted from coal-burning stations, in which case we (and the rest
of the world) can have safe and clean-ish power to last centuries (such as
until nuclear fusion moves from the atoll, via the lab, to the generator).

S


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