Comments on: Labour has a huge carbon footprint, as well as an impatient clunking fist http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/04/01/labour-has-a-huge-carbon-footprint-as-well-as-an-impatient-clunking-fist/ Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Wokingham Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:54:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Stuart Fairney http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/04/01/labour-has-a-huge-carbon-footprint-as-well-as-an-impatient-clunking-fist/#comment-1428 Stuart Fairney Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:54:46 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=184#comment-1428 Neil, It maybe sooner than you think, I recall last year one of them (I believe the energy minister but don't quote me) saying that if demand for electricity exceeded generating capacity because of the cold winter, then we shouldn't worry, industry would be shut down not houses ~ honestly it was like a character from the pages of 'Atlas Shrugged' Do you know of any independent reviews of the usefulness of windmill electricity generation? Neil, It maybe sooner than you think, I recall last year one of them (I believe the energy minister but don’t quote me) saying that if demand for electricity exceeded generating capacity because of the cold winter, then we shouldn’t worry, industry would be shut down not houses ~ honestly it was like a character from the pages of ‘Atlas Shrugged’

Do you know of any independent reviews of the usefulness of windmill electricity generation?

]]> By: Neil Craig http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/04/01/labour-has-a-huge-carbon-footprint-as-well-as-an-impatient-clunking-fist/#comment-1416 Neil Craig Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:36:18 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=184#comment-1416 Because our nuclear power stations, which used to produce 20% of our power, are closing down it is inevitable that we will produce more power from CO2 producing sources (we can't expand hydro because we don't have suitable sites & windmills are an expensive useless token). The real bad news is that the downside of not have enough generating capacity will be obvious when the lights go out, as they surely will. At which point politicians who spouted green nonsense & prevented the building of new nuclear will, deservedly, find themselves hanging from lampposts. Because our nuclear power stations, which used to produce 20% of our power, are closing down it is inevitable that we will produce more power from CO2 producing sources (we can’t expand hydro because we don’t have suitable sites & windmills are an expensive useless token).

The real bad news is that the downside of not have enough generating capacity will be obvious when the lights go out, as they surely will. At which point politicians who spouted green nonsense & prevented the building of new nuclear will, deservedly, find themselves hanging from lampposts.

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