> BBC R4 ‘Today’ programme 4 Nov 22.
>>
>> Interview with a Dr Paul Dorfman of Sussex University, starts at >> 07h12m50s.
>>
>> The first part of the five minute interview starts with a discussion of
>> Sizewell C. At 07h16m30 it seems to detach from reality with a comment
>> something like ‘renewables will become the new base load supported by
>> flexible capacity by 2030’, the drawback to Sizewell C being that it >> can’t
>> ramp up and down to match demand.
>>
>> I suspect you are fully aware of the sort of mindset involved in this >> kind
>> of projection and none of this will be a surprise, but as much as in the
>> financial world ‘debit’ transmorphed into ‘credit’ and vice versa, we are
>> now presented with a scenario of highly variable renewables becoming the
>> base load!
>>
>> None of this was questioned by the interviewer, but this is the BBC we >> are
>> talking about.
>
> Anyone here remember the superb Canadian bumper sticker “Let the Eastern
> Bastards Freeze in the Dark”? It illustrated the emotions felt by a
> majority of Albertans (in western Canada), directed towards the Pierre
> Trudeau led federal government (situated in eastern Canada,) in the wake
> of Trudeau’s infamous 1980 National Energy Policy.
>
> So now we've got our current government's "national energy policy" to
> not develop nuclear and instead substitute renewables. Perhaps we should
> have a bumper sticker here, substituting "Greens" for "Eastern"... >
> Trouble is, we'll *all* be freezing in the dark. :-(
I have long said that we should have a ballot on nuclear and, if the vote is against it, those that voted against it should be the ones to be cut-off if there is a power shortage.