Current Affairs Environmental Stuff

[grandjoeblue]

Nice sentiments, but they'll get fobbed off again with carbon credit scamming, or somesuch.

Do you actually think it's possible to replace our current economic model based on cheap oil with a green equivalent that's environmentally sound ?

Is nuclear an environmentally sound solution? If so, possibly.

 

[orchard]

Is nuclear an environmentally sound solution? If so, possibly.

For some, maybe. Problem is, besides accidents, we have struggled to store waste/decommission them safely as it is, that's with an abundance of cheap energy.

Personally, I think not mate, fwiw.

 

[grandjoeblue]

For some, maybe. Problem is, besides accidents, we have struggled to store waste/decommission them safely as it is, that's with an abundance of cheap energy.

Personally, I think not mate, fwiw.

Tough one really because if they get it right its arguably safe but it can go very wrong.

 

[Zezti]

Interesting trial scheme in germany. There's something oddly satisfying about going back to technology of a hundred years ago to solve modern problems.

 

[summerisle]

 

[orchard]

The irony of the last two paragraphs.

 

[coollino]

 

[orchard]

Fancy sequestering carbon then locking it up in a structure so we can't share the carbon with everyone else...

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Well you can’t grow concrete
You can!
....
See you Cameron

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Alan partridge isn’t even satire anymore. He’s been outdone

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Is that what Mark Francois is doing with himself these days?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Alan partridge isn’t even satire anymore. He’s been outdone

Richard Madesley is way more Partridge than Partridge.

 

[neil999]

Pah! Carpenter... What a useless 'non job'

 

[coollino]

Well you can’t grow concrete
You can!
....
See you Cameron

Half the time I don't know if people like this are trying to get their show viral or if it is actually serious

 

[Zezti]

I love the way he sounds off with "that was Cameron. He 'grows' trees!" as if dismissing it as some mythical process.

Naturally the country's worst newspaper goes with this: