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[Nickbat]

"Britain faces an energy gap of up 32 GW by 2015 as older coal and nuclear power stations are paid off. At the same time, Britain has made a binding commitment to deliver 15% of all its energy consumption from renewable energy sources by 2020.

The Government has now accepted that the total costs of meeting the 2020 target will be £100 billion. This is the equivalent of £4,000 for every household in the country."

HOW MUCH?....FORGET IT!  

Link for full story: http://www.jennifermarohasy.com/blog/archives/003198.html

[Kevin Wood]

I found this quite interesting: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/20/mackay_on_carbon_free_uk/

The one thing that the politics always glosses over: hard numbers. They can agree to what they like. It's not going to fly.

Kevin