UK to "get serious" About Renewable Energy

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UK to "get serious" About Renewable Energy

Posted by michael on Sunday February 23, 2003 @09:03AM from the don't-hold-your-breath dept.

Bob Dobbs writes "Tomorrow the UK government will announce (observer.co.uk) it's going to "get serious" about renewable energy; in the bleakest look at global warming so far Tony Blair will warn that extreme weather will wreak £150 billion worth of damage across Europe within a decade and the current situation is "unsustainable". On the bright side, it's mentioned that sustainable energy sources are less susceptible to terrorist attack."

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Re:Dead End by epicstruggle · 2003-02-23 10:08 · Score: 1, Troll

I would love it if we could get back on the nuclear energy bandwagon. If stored properly we could elimanate almost all pollution related to the production of energy. And if we can stop bickering over where to store the material we could start moving forward. Please see the following link for more reasons:
www.nucleartourist.com

In the future if we can build a space elevator, we can even take nuclear waste into high orbit and then launch it out into the sun. :)

later,
Epicstruggle

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It's just an excuse by johnburton · 2003-02-23 10:15 · Score: 0, Troll

Hmm.
The British goverment has already raised all the taxes it can get away without people noticing too much, and then it's raised taxes that people will notice as much as it thinks it can get away with.

"Global warming" seems to be something that goverments like to exagerate out of all proportion so that they can put vast extra taxes on energy that they wouldn't be able to get away with otherwise.

This is nothing but an excuse to further raise taxes. Bah.

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Re:Makes sense in so many ways by BFaucet · 2003-02-23 16:00 · Score: 1, Troll

But what about those rich fellows who are making money off of oil?! What will they do when they won't be able to grab more money and power than they already have?! They'll be forced to live off of their vast savings that will last them and their families for a number of generations! Oh poor, poor oil executives!

Beware... megalomaniacs in power.

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Global Warming is a load of crap. by ccmay · 2003-02-23 17:45 · Score: 0, Troll

The hysterical eco-freaks and grant-grubbing politicized scientists pushing global warming down our throats are the same eco-freaks and grant-grubbing scientists who scared us all with tales of the coming ice age thirty years ago.
About the only thing science has reliably proven is that global temperatures fluctuate dramatically and did so long before mankind crawled out of the swamps.
Whether you blame volcanos, perturbations in the earth's axis of rotation, or volcanoes, it is clear that all anthropogenic climate disturbances since man discovered fire are mere blips of statistical noise compared to natural background variations.
I think all the fuss is driven by the same old crowd of leftist busybodies who live their lives for the chance to tell other people what to do. Go to hell, all of you.
-ccm

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Hemp - the one true renewable resource. by JofCoRe · 2003-02-24 04:00 · Score: 0, Troll

Hemp. Biodiesel from hemp.
One acre of hemp can produce 100 gallons of biodiesel, and you can get 3 crops per year from that acre. So 300 gallons per year from one acre of hemp.

Here's some more info: http://www.mohemp.org/hempcar.html

and more info on biodiesel can be found at: www.biodiesel.org

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