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[Vamps]

I think that people should be a little more open minded and have a little more faith in human ingenuity.    Just because the way coal has been used in the past, dosn't mean that it can't be used in a different way in the future.    I have faith that they'll find a way to use coal cleanly and safely.  There's too much of the stuff down there to leave it be... 

But if we're going to rush to nuclear, have we worked out a sensible, sustainable and clean way of dealing with the nuclear waste? 

I remain deeply unconvinced on nuclear mainly for this reason, but also if there is an incident such as Chernobyl the results are catastrophic rather than merely disastrous... 

Quite agree, hence my responses....   I am not advocating a return to coal for every household, but feel that the fact we have 100's of years of a 'fuel resource' should be born in mind. It may well be 2oo years before anyone decides to mine coal again, but one thing is almost certain, someone will some time, in MY opinion which I am allowed to have, even if it differs from others sometimes, assuming there are people around to mine it.....

[Rods2]

I think that people should be a little more open minded and have a little more faith in human ingenuity.    Just because the way coal has been used in the past, dosn't mean that it can't be used in a different way in the future.    I have faith that they'll find a way to use coal cleanly and safely.  There's too much of the stuff down there to leave it be... 

But if we're going to rush to nuclear, have we worked out a sensible, sustainable and clean way of dealing with the nuclear waste? 

I remain deeply unconvinced on nuclear mainly for this reason, but also if there is an incident such as Chernobyl the results are catastrophic rather than merely disastrous... 

The next generation of fast breeder nuclear reactors will convert the nuclear waste into usable fuel, so the last thing we want to be doing is burying it where we can use it for generating power and more fuel as a seed for Thorium reactors or fuel for uranium reactors. 

[Rods2]

I think that people should be a little more open minded and have a little more faith in human ingenuity.    Just because the way coal has been used in the past, dosn't mean that it can't be used in a different way in the future.    I have faith that they'll find a way to use coal cleanly and safely.  There's too much of the stuff down there to leave it be... 

But if we're going to rush to nuclear, have we worked out a sensible, sustainable and clean way of dealing with the nuclear waste? 

I remain deeply unconvinced on nuclear mainly for this reason, but also if there is an incident such as Chernobyl the results are catastrophic rather than merely disastrous... 

Quite agree, hence my responses....   I am not advocating a return to coal for every household, but feel that the fact we have 100's of years of a 'fuel resource' should be born in mind. It may well be 2oo years before anyone decides to mine coal again, but one thing is almost certain, someone will some time, in MY opinion which I am allowed to have, even if it differs from others sometimes, assuming there are people around to mine it.....

I'm sure it will be a case of needs must, like it is in Germany at the moment where the Greens forced the closure of their nuclear power stations. Where they have gone for large scale wind power and have had grid stability problems as a result, German industry has basically given the German Government an ultimatum to provide stable electricity or we will move our factories to a country that can. 

[Sir Tigger KC]

I think that people should be a little more open minded and have a little more faith in human ingenuity.    Just because the way coal has been used in the past, dosn't mean that it can't be used in a different way in the future.    I have faith that they'll find a way to use coal cleanly and safely.  There's too much of the stuff down there to leave it be... 

But if we're going to rush to nuclear, have we worked out a sensible, sustainable and clean way of dealing with the nuclear waste? 

I remain deeply unconvinced on nuclear mainly for this reason, but also if there is an incident such as Chernobyl the results are catastrophic rather than merely disastrous... 

The next generation of fast breeder nuclear reactors will convert the nuclear waste into usable fuel, so the last thing we want to be doing is burying it where we can use it for generating power and more fuel as a seed for Thorium reactors or fuel for uranium reactors. 

That's all well and fine as long as it's the latest technology that gets built here, but whats the betting that it will be the last generation of reactors that actually get built... if ever? 

Due to our archaic planning laws, anything on the drawing board today will be completely obsolete by the time they get round to breaking ground!!    None of us will be around to get worked up about it anyway!!