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This was my result. I went for reducing demand as much as possible: the £600+ per household can be partly subsidized by the government to provide insulations for the poorest households, as (like afew argues) that would be subsidizing industry and labour.

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Apr 2nd, 2006 at 04:35:02 PM EST
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The calculator seems vapid to the point of stupidity though.

Nuclear has significant carbon costs during construction, fuelling and clean-up - unless uranium fuel is mined on-site. So pretending that nuclear is carbon-free is just plain wrong.

Renewables also have a carbon cost, for similar reasons, but obviously it's a very much smaller one.

It also would have been interesting to see what X thousand windmills or Y nuclear power stations would have meant for the UK's available development space.

And microgeneration could have had a mention too.

(And so on.)

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sun Apr 2nd, 2006 at 06:21:39 PM EST
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