The end of the combustion engine as we know it?

[craigyt]

To make the power stations more carbon neutral they need to run on gas, rwe has converted and modified their gas stations to better efficiency than new builds but for some reason gas is too expensive. Its not viable to use gas stations. Coal is considerably cheaper so coal stations are on 80% utilisation most of the time where as gas is down at circa 20%!

The government want low carbon emissions but arent willing to invest in the low carbon stations, they think and hope that wind power and solar is enough for the uk to survive but its just isnt. The power industry is in limbo!

We will inevitably have to go nuclear.
This is something that a lot of people would not like to accept.

Despite all the hype, it is statistically a lot safer and cleaner than burning fossil fuels, and producing many industrial chemicals etc. and produces vastly less waste and pollutants. Yes, it does produce toxic waste, but it produces it in tiny quantities and it is all collected and manageable, it is not belched into the atmosphere where we can never control it nor get it back.

I would have to agree, i love the idea of nuclear power!

Ivthink the best thing to do is when the tree huggers are protesting, shut the stations, black out so the huggers can see what the consequences are. All they do is protest, cause havoc then go home stick the kettle on n watch the tv to see how much trouble they caused!

Cut their power off n wait n see how long they last without power!!