A new generation of nuclear power stations to satisfy a great chunk of our energy needs for decades to come are to built and funded by the private sector. Meanwhile, the Government is putting up some windmills.
Seems harmless enough, pitiful almost. It has all renewed the wind v nuclear debate.
Good in theory, windmills, though they offend the obsessive compulsive in everyone.
When you see the little plastic jobs on a stick attached to a child’s buggy whizzing round you do see what the greens see: free, clean energy. Lots of it about and always more on the way. Our wind farmers must be working very hard.
For £2,000 B&Q will fit one on your house – a big windmill, not the kid’s toy, you twit – but you will only save 10% on your bill and it won’t even be a pretty colour.
What the Government plans are more of those rigid windmill forests. Boring, boring, boring. Ugly, ugly, ugly.
Like telephone masts, everyone thinks they are a good idea and no-one wants one anywhere near them.
How green are these things anyway? For a start you need vast amounts of concrete to hold them up in the air.
Rather, than collecting windmills in one place, if we must have them, why cannot they follow the electricity pylons wherever they march? After all, the countryside is already scarred.
The EU is about to instruct us to increase our off-shore wind farms 50 fold. My God, we will be fenced in! You won’t be able to get a decent sea view anywhere.
But is nuclear preferable? I wish I knew. The greens do worry so much about the waste they produce and the potential danger they pose.
But there is no danger, insist the industry and the Government. In which case, when the time comes, can we expect Battersea Power Station to be rebuilt as nuclear?
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