Nuclear Power

First off. It's safe. You cannot argue that it isn't. The only major nuclear disaster after the second world war was Chenobyl. Or however the Russians want to spell that. That was only because it was Russian, anyway.

'Green' people, people who think that we're killing the planet by living (I don't think they'll be happy until we're living in caves screaming 'ug' at each other), claim there are green alternatives to nuclear power.

Let's take a look, shall we, at what they suggest.

Wind farms. All well and good, works perfectly on paper. However, in practice, it is of little use at all. There is no where near enough space to have windfarms enough to power London, let alone a country. They say put them at sea. Yeah. Then comes the problem of maintaining them, without killing people. Or animals, because hey, that's bad too. So the sea, and the land, are gone. Unless France becomes a windy place, the French move out and England happens to do what they were trying back in the middle ages, and comes into ownership of France.

Hydroelectric dams. Please, please, don't make me laugh. You cannot be an environmentalist and even begin to suggest these things. I suppose, in the name of convienience, the environmentalists have forgotten that bloody great big one in Brazil. There was more damage caused to one area of the environment that building a nuclear power plant and having to dispose of the low grade radioactive waste.

Tidal based power sources are somewhat more plausible, but again, they are flawed. In any scenario, they only work when there is tidal motion, which as any geography student can tell you, only occurs twice a day. Nice idea, but far to pathetic to power a city the size of Lichfield, let alone somewhere important.

Solar power. Again, don't make me laugh. You'd need somewhere with the amount of sunshine that is seen rarely but countries around the equator. And I don't think they'd be happy if you tore down their forests to make way for some huge solar panels. There is little to no ability to use them in the UK, it's just far too dull here. We'd be without power for several months of the year if we used these things.

Completely by accident there I've trodden on the 'green' argument. It's a terrible shame, isn't it.

Power plants that burn fosil fuels such as coal, and the like, that produce a few million tonnes of Co2 to power cities are bad, apparently. Nuclear power stations provide the environment with significantly less CO2. Oh well, I guess we'll all be eating grass and clubbing each other if these 'green' people ever get a position of influence.

I don't think they're green, though. I think they're yellow.