[Closed] If you don't want wind turbines, how else will you generate power?

we love getting our knickers in a twist over nuclear power and radiation, yet no-one seems to care about modern diesel engines and pm2.5 particulates.

humans are weird.

[i]There will be no new nuclear north of the border. [/i]

Except at Faslane......

I hope that controlled nuclear fusion can be made industrially viable, that would solve a lot of problems

The failsafe failure has not been explained by anyone but since there were either triple or quadruple redundant diesel generators and apparently the plant was not damaged by the quake, that leaves the possibility of what - maintenance?

Coffeking there's a bit more inormation and an alternative slant on the situation [url= http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/14/fukushiima_analysis/ ]here[/url]

it was a easily predictable event in that it would happen at some point

If it was so predictable surely you should venting your feelings towards the Japanese authorities that obviously allowed over 10,000 people to die by not preventing them from living in that area or the oil refiniery that exploded killing many of its workers instead of a nuclear plant that is yet to kill anyone or do long term damage to the local area? It's interesting that nobody ever mentions the plant a Diani 10km along the coast that was safely shutdown several days ago! You also need to inform the scientists as they weren't expecting an earthquake this big or one that lasted for five minutes. Neither did any of them predict that Japan would move by almost 8 feet and have parts of its coastline drop by a metre!

Back to the original question, i still think people concentrate too much on electricity production which is only about 12% of the UKs energy usage. Since we moved house 4 years ago we've managed to reduce our gas and electricty consumption by between 5 and 10% by doing lots little, cheap things like low energy bulbs, not leaving things on standby, wearing jumpers in the house etc. If every household in the UK reduced its energy bill by 10% it would knock 3% off the total energy consumption or 295 PetaJoules. To have a similar effect on carbon emissions we'd have to have 6 times as many wind turbines as are currently supplying the grid, an additional 15,500! They really would be building them in your back yard.