All energy is equal, but some is more equal than others..
All energy is equal, but some is more equal than others..
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Happy82

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15,078 posts

200 months

Monday 23rd January 2012
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-1664...


So it's ok to subsidise windfarms and solar energy but not nuclear because that's unlawful and unfair laugh


Spiritual_Beggar

4,833 posts

225 months

Monday 23rd January 2012
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Richard Black.


That's all you need to know about that article really.

Jasandjules

72,680 posts

260 months

Monday 23rd January 2012
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Spiritual_Beggar said:
It's the BBC


That's all you need to know about that article really.
EFA

turbobloke

117,502 posts

291 months

Monday 23rd January 2012
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Jasandjules said:
Spiritual_Beggar said:
It's the BBC


That's all you need to know about that article really.
EFA
^ and Richard Black rofl

12gauge

1,274 posts

205 months

Monday 23rd January 2012
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Sounds like this is from the Labour-Lib Dem school of 'subsidy theory' which comes out with psychobabble like 'cyclists subsidize motorists'

Could you imagine if todays NIMBYs, politicians and various Moonbat types were transplanted into the 1700 and 1800s. We'd have no houses, no roads, no railways, no electricity, no nothing. We'd all be huddled up in Caves.

jbi

12,700 posts

235 months

Monday 23rd January 2012
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oh god... Dicky Black is back

chris watton

22,547 posts

291 months

Monday 23rd January 2012
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12gauge said:
Could you imagine if todays NIMBYs, politicians and various Moonbat types were transplanted into the 1700 and 1800s. We'd have no houses, no roads, no railways, no electricity, no nothing. We'd all be huddled up in Caves.
Back then, there was REAL poverty, where people starved. The Industrial Revolution helped remedy some of of this, no-one in their right minds, left or right political persuasion would have argued against it. Do we have to regress to pre-Industrial Revolution times for the hard of thinking to realise how bad life was, especially for the poorest?

MartG

22,869 posts

235 months

Monday 23rd January 2012
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Happy82 said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-1664...


So it's ok to subsidise windfarms and solar energy but not nuclear because that's unlawful and unfair laugh
Spotted that yesterday, and posted in the 'things that annoy beyond all reason' thread.

These people won't be happy until we're shovelling 2 million tonnes of horse st out of our cities every day again, and back to living in darkness

s of the Highest Order !

Mr GrimNasty

8,172 posts

201 months

Monday 23rd January 2012
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12gauge said:
Could you imagine if todays NIMBYs, politicians and various Moonbat types were transplanted into the 1700 and 1800s. We'd have no houses, no roads, no railways, no electricity, no nothing. We'd all be huddled up in Caves.
Do you really think there wasn't any vigorous opposition & protests against the building of Victorian Railways and the desecration of natural beauty, farms and homes? No protests/riots against industrialisation & the building of factories? I think you need a history lesson.

Blib

48,327 posts

228 months

Monday 23rd January 2012
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'sfunny, there's no opportunity to comment on Dick's article. I wonder why?

scratchchin

Blib

48,327 posts

228 months

Monday 23rd January 2012
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Mr GrimNasty said:
12gauge said:
Could you imagine if todays NIMBYs, politicians and various Moonbat types were transplanted into the 1700 and 1800s. We'd have no houses, no roads, no railways, no electricity, no nothing. We'd all be huddled up in Caves.
Do you really think there wasn't any vigorous opposition & protests against the building of Victorian Railways and the desecration of natural beauty, farms and homes? No protests/riots against industrialisation & the building of factories? I think you need a history lesson.
But, the protesters were proven to be, on the whole, misguided. The benefits of industialisation far, far outweighed the damage caused.