Zac and Cameron talk green issues
People in the UK have a deep loathing and mistrust of nuclear power, just like incinerators, regardless of how “safe” experts say they may be, they always will.
I believe that’s why Conservatives, actively encouraged by the gold list environmentalist Zac Goldsmith, are reportedly favouring renewables in the form of decentralised energy as their alternative. The full policy will be announced in six months.
The report in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph reports how DE could offer a truly substantial reduction in UK CO2 emissions.
DE works by using a combined heat and power generator, about the size of a garden shed, which will be placed in council estates, row of shops, major factory, retail park and industrial estate.
It also means using wind turbines and solar panels and housolders who install this technology could sell their surplus electricity back to the electricity companies.
This is said to be based on a similar system in Germany and naturally has the backing of Greenpeace.
If implemented, it is obviously going to be a massive undertaking, but there is no easy quick-fix or cheap solution regarding our energy provision; the emphasis will be on the environmental impact and its likely success.
*Incidentally, I had an email from Stan O’Neil yesterday asking if anyone could remember the time when Margaret Thatcher went to a conference in the United States at which she praised Britain’s nuclear energy performance and then the very next day after she returned, she held a cabinet meeting at which she effectively cancelled any further expansion of nuclear energy in Britain.
“Not for the first time, I thought, that woman’s lost her marbles!” said Stan.
Does this ring any bells? It is for Stan’s personal info.