JaredJames
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As much as I like the idea of everyone getting a say in the running of their country, I do find it incredible that the opinion of those 'without a clue' on a subject seems to be taken just as reliably as someone who has spent their lives in said field. This is more down to media than anything, always trying to hype things up.
Heathrow's third runway was a classic example, on the news reports some of the people there demonstrating were from hundreds of miles away. I mean seriously, how the hell does it affect them? (This was not about pollution, they simply didn't want the additional air traffic and wanted it built somewhere else).
Anyway, back to the topic at hand, without covering the countryside in wind farms and flooding various welsh and scottish valleys for hydro electric, plus installing various tidal generation systems, there just isn't a way to meet the energy demand without nuclear (or the 'evil three'
).
What gets me is that everyone complains they don't want wind turbines and the like cluttering the landscape and spoiling it, and yet they demand more renewable energy. The "not in my backyard" approach.
They were looking at installing offshore wind farms near where I live and the people opposed it very strongly, the argument "it would spoil the view and ruin the beauty of the coast". They installed a trial one out where the site would be and when questioned, the locals didn't even know they had done it, they couldn't even see it.
I agree, people are unreasonable idiots.
Heathrow's third runway was a classic example, on the news reports some of the people there demonstrating were from hundreds of miles away. I mean seriously, how the hell does it affect them? (This was not about pollution, they simply didn't want the additional air traffic and wanted it built somewhere else).
Anyway, back to the topic at hand, without covering the countryside in wind farms and flooding various welsh and scottish valleys for hydro electric, plus installing various tidal generation systems, there just isn't a way to meet the energy demand without nuclear (or the 'evil three'

What gets me is that everyone complains they don't want wind turbines and the like cluttering the landscape and spoiling it, and yet they demand more renewable energy. The "not in my backyard" approach.
They were looking at installing offshore wind farms near where I live and the people opposed it very strongly, the argument "it would spoil the view and ruin the beauty of the coast". They installed a trial one out where the site would be and when questioned, the locals didn't even know they had done it, they couldn't even see it.
I agree, people are unreasonable idiots.