Wind Farms.

[Workingman]

Had we not jumped on the (unproven) £multi-billion wind turbine bandwagon we could have invested some of the money on worthwhile carbon capture R&D and built clean coal power stations. We could have invested in nuclear. We could have done world class research into 'real' alternatives - nuclear and coal would have bought us time.

[Suff]

The company I'm working for announced to us, last Friday, that we're about to demo the first production sized CCS in the UK....

Interesting but I doubt it will work in the long run. Unlike SO2, CO2 is way larger in volume and harder to cope with.

My favourite is HDR geothermal for that kind of stuff but it would have to be direct conduction rather than indirect (water and steam). I don't know of any direction conduction but you could literally plumb it into the side of an active (or even dormant), volcano and use the power....

We are where we are and it's not going to get better any time soon.

[Kaz]

Had we not jumped on the (unproven) £multi-billion wind turbine bandwagon we could have invested some of the money on worthwhile carbon capture R&D and built clean coal power stations. We could have invested in nuclear. We could have done world class research into 'real' alternatives - nuclear and coal would have bought us time.

I could not agree more!