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Sweden says YES to nukes (again)

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  • #2
    Húrin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,045 ✭✭✭Húrin


    Whatever about the waste, I don't think that building such a capital-intensive form of energy infrastructure is such a good idea in these times.

    Governments have got to give up the delusion that energy demand growth can continue indefinitely.


  • #3
    ChocolateSauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭ChocolateSauce


    As an ardent supporter of nuclear power, I laud their decision.


  • #4
    SeanW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,168 ✭✭✭SeanW


    +1

    The Swedish have a very strong environmental agenda, and it looks like they've woken up to the fact that sticking their fingers in their ears and singing "La la la, Windmills Uber Alles" will not work. They also know that they don't want to import large amounts of fossil energy from Norway (even though they're next door neighbors, while Ireland's gas is looking at a 2000 mile pipleline from Siberia and the Caucasus. They also must not like the ecologically suicidal option of coal-fired power.

    In short, they've come to their senses.


  • #5
    Húrin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,045 ✭✭✭Húrin


    SeanW wrote: »
    +1

    The Swedish have a very strong environmental agenda, and it looks like they've woken up to the fact that sticking their fingers in their ears and singing "La la la, Windmills Uber Alles" will not work. They also know that they don't want to import large amounts of fossil energy from Norway (even though they're next door neighbors, while Ireland's gas is looking at a 2000 mile pipleline from Siberia and the Caucasus. They also must not like the ecologically suicidal option of coal-fired power.

    In short, they've come to their senses.

    Hardly.

    They think they are "saving the planet" by token building regulations. Malmö was for most of the last two centuries a major centre of manufacturing. Now they import goods from Asia.

    Like every other European government they are wilfully ignorant of the fact that renewables and nuclear cannot sustain, let alone continue the growth of, a post-industrial consumer society.


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