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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth
The Japanese nuclear stations were designed and built in the sixties! Think how car safety has progressed in the last 40 odd years, I wouldn't like to have a crash in a sixties car. Nuclear station designs have progressed in the same way, the safety features built in are far superior to those old ones. What alternatives do we have? Wind? How much carbon dioxide is generated making a wind turbine and what do we do on a windless day? Cook on a wood fire? With climate change who knows how many windless days we will have in the future, at least nuclear works all day, every day(well, maybe not in Japan).
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I do not have any problems with the aesthetic of wind turbines, providing they are far enough away from hosing - but I do have a problem gettinhg my head around the effect the the "windmills" have on climate change.
I have always believed in the theory that matter cannot be created or destroyed so the energy (wind) that turns the windmill must give up some of it's energy, therefore there is less energy in the wind on the leeward side of the windmill.
Therefore on the leeward side of windfarm, the wind will have given energy to the turbine, and with wind being part of and integral to climate, there must be climate change to some degree.
Perhaps I am missing something and some kind soul will explain it to me.
By the way, I strongly support nuclear power - it is the safest, cleanest, longest lasting scource of power - oh yes, there is a residue, but safe disposal will be found - and that will be better disposal than combustion particulates into peoples longs.