This must easily be the best pro-nuclear book ever published. It is so well written, is clear but detailed and, for me, is irrefutable. It raises these questions, however.
- Why do you play down the role of water in nuclear power when water is essential for cooling and in the operation process?
- If that is true, how are we able to build SMRs in towns and cities?
- Over-promised and under-delivered ever since the 1950s with the "too cheap to meter" promised but never delivered. Please comment.
- You are on the side of the powers that be - the authorities who had our taxes to go ahead with nukes but have struggled for decades. How come? Is this to do with at least four nuclear accidents? Or, five with the wrong button/dial operated by the Indian nuclear worker.
- Why has your side never succeeded as the French government has with nuclear elecy?
- Do you have a map of their nuclear sites, please?
- Does your book explain what went wrong to cause the nuclear accidents? YES! Chapter 9. I'm on 8.
- Do you know why George Monbiot has gone over to your side, some years ago, now?
- How much nuclear electricity do we take from France?
- Do you approve of the 5 August pronouncement that the US will build a nuclear reactor on the moon?
- Which one person or organisation is the most active or, anti-nuclear electricity?
- Any others?
- Have you had any exchanges or debates with them?
- Should we 'Just Stop Oil' (meaning no more exploration for new fields) and go hell for leather with SMRs?
- Is the solution my wife and I have chosen of a mini fusion nuclear power station for nine months of the year and the other three relying on batteries to import elecy in the middle of the night, any good? SEE:-
Thursday, 28 December 2023
How we got rid of gas to arrive at 100% electricity
I am horrified by the spread of war - now to the Middle East as well as eastern Europe/Russia and our own ecocidal behaviour from economic/population growth instead of ecological growth and sustainability. My blog, timweller1.blogspot.com reveals more of my outrageous opinions, concerns and my jaundiced/sad interpretation of human history. Don't read it!
I have changed my opinion on batteries to complement solar PV. Our Nov 2021, 14.4 kWp set of batteries is working well to import Octopus (transferred in April 2022) Agile tariff in the early hours of the morning when electricity is very cheap and charges up the battery to make for enough electricity to last throughout the day. In October we completed our transition from gas to 100% electricity and our total energy bill, last week was £50.85 for four weeks, 22 Nov to 21 Dec. The house is a mini power station to power the UK in the summer months, instead of massive power stations feeding the grid.In March 2022 we stopped using the gas-fired central heating and now use only Herschel infrared portable electric heaters. We next got rid of the old gas cooker and bought an inductive electric cooker. Finally, from gas water heating to instant electric water heaters. Expensive to do but I used my lifetime savings from 48 years in the one house. The gas meter was taken out for free, by Octopus, on 30 Nov 2023.- Is oil too precious to burn? Perhaps, we need it for the 101 petrochemical and other uses?
- How do you answer my assertion that the rich, American-led Western world is so addicted to finite fossil fuels that the power of the atom cannot possibly be a substitute for all the uses we use fossil fuels for.
- Our emissions of greenhouse gases will be so enormous for years to come and the Climate impacts are now so built in, all we can do is to rapidly go nuclear to postpone the inevitable.
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