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[robinbloke]

Switch to Ecotricity.

They'll match your local suppliers cost and they'll sort out all the logistics of it for you.

Comments

[nina321.livejournal.com]

Woo for wind energy! I love driving to the wind farms about 20 miles from me... I took my little brother and he hugged one.
There's a big campaign near to me against a new wind farm being built, but I can't see why.
I think they are amazingly graceful, and a site better than a nuclear power plant at any rate. (http://www.scoutmoor.com/) ()

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

They're building a windfarm near where I live, there is a campaign against it too. I don't really mind, as you say, better to have wind farms than nuclear ickage.

[nina321.livejournal.com]

Where is the one they are building near you? (you live in Cambridge right?)
Interesting...

[mobbsy.livejournal.com]

http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge/story.asp?StoryID=59055

[nina321.livejournal.com]

Aha. Thank you.

[belak-krin.livejournal.com]

possibly something to do with the damage to the environment (something to do with the cabling) or the eyesore (still much better than anything with chimneys. Though I would have thought the local airforce wouldn't have been too happy, apparantly the blades mess with radar.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the penguinthulu by the way :)

[belak-krin.livejournal.com]

No problem, I'd totally forgotten about it until you turned up at the pub and then thought "doh!" Apologies for the scan being a little small, I've only got a hotmail account and it wont take anything more than about a meg as an attachment, and takes forever about it.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Somebody is fixing the radar problem. I can't really say any more than that because it's secret.

[scy11a.livejournal.com]

Actually the windfarm will be right at the back of mmy house - and we're opposing it because of the strobing light effect and the fact that they're as noisy as moving the A14 to right on our doorstep : /
Also, windfarms are not the way to renewable energy - this massive development will be the largest in the UK and still only provide power for 90,000 homes - a piddling trifle!

I already subscribe to RSPB Energy on a similar deal. All the elecs we use are from renewable resources of which around 90% is hydro, a bit of wind power and 3% from burning methane produced by landfill sites : )

They reckon that wave power is the way to go, but not sure about the coastal environment consequences, especially in our globally important estuaries. Anyway, the technology is 15 years behind wind farms.

BTW the controversial guy that came up with the Gaia theory in the seventies well ahead of global warming theories now supports nuclear energy as it is truly the cleanest form of power we have.

Want to do your bit for the environment? Don't drive so much and turn off stuff when you're not using it - especially your PCs. And don't squander water.

OK rant over.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I am trying to do my bit now; I recycle almost obsessively, I can walk to work and I've ordered a bog-bag to cut down water for flushes - amoungst other things.

Wouldn't the stroke effect be like a disco light? Or are you just worried it'll attract Anvil? ;)

[drpyrojames.livejournal.com]

Err a "bog-bag"? If this isn't a bag to stick in the cistern to make the fills smaller, I don't want to know what it is. :) But if it is, you can just use bricks, or glass bottles/jars full of water to do the same. It was the standard trick in Oz.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Yep, basically. The advantage of the bag though is you can adjust how much it has in it so you can optimise your flush working with saving water.

I remember a phrase from Aussie water conservation from I don't know when...
"If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown flush it down."

[owdbetts.livejournal.com]

BTW the controversial guy that came up with the Gaia theory in the seventies well ahead of global warming theories now supports nuclear energy as it is truly the cleanest form of power we have.

Interesting. I've always thought that the nuclear power programme was important because one day we may need it. I was saddened by the short sightedness of axeing the British AGR programme and buying in American PWRs instead.

The point of nuclear power (at the moment) should be to gain experience with the technology so that we have a clue how to do it safely on a large scale should we need to in the future. Not to try and produce power as cheaply as possible.

The nice thing about AGRs in comparison to PWRs is that they have a relatively low power density. Most plausible meltdown scenarios take hours, rather than tens of minutes. It seems to me that there's a huge advantage in a nuclear reactor where, if something seriously unexpected happens, you actually have time to get some nuclear power engineers on the phone, rather than just hoping that you've covered every eventuality in the operating manual...

It's also the reason why I'm not happy supporting CND, despite being against nuclear weapons. What's the point of a single-issue pressure group that then ties you into supporting another (largely unrelated) issue...?