I Don't Have Any Idea How to Deal With Global Warming.

Many, many years ago when nuclear power first raised it’s ugly head it was proclaimed as the answer to our energy problems. We are going back a long way here, pre Beatles days, the fifties. Pollution wasn’t a word that was used much, environment, if I’d heard the word spoken I wouldn’t have known what it meant, the word global appeared now and then but not linked to warming and even global economy hadn’t made it into mainstream vocab. But back to nuclear power, then of cause it was going to be so cheap to produce electricity that there wouldn’t be any need for houses to have meters, use as much as you wanted, no problem. Well that never happened and over the 45 years I have been paying my electricity bills I have gone from, “God have you seen the electricity bill, we must try and switch lights out when we aren‘t using them.” to “GOD HAVE YOU SEEN THE F****** ELECTRICITY BILL. THERE’S NO F****** WAY WE CAN PAY THAT.” And it aint getting any better. Oh yes, cheap electricity, I read somewhere not too long ago that the bill for decommissioning just one 30 year old nuclear power plant is £30 billion. And another point that wasn’t mentioned 45 years ago, nuclear waste. Well OK it did get mentioned but not by the people building the power plants. Now a days the nuclear waste is a lot safer than it used to be but there is still stuff from the fifties and sixties that will be Not Safe in a big way in 135 000 years. If one human generation equals 25 years then we have left a ticking time bomb for the next 5400 generations to worry about. That is really cheap electric. Now, as the serious effects of global warming loom up to give the next three or four generations reasons to hate us science has come up with an idea to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas getting into the atmosphere. They say we should scrub the idea of building more nuclear power stations and build coal fire power stations. Yes I know coal produces mega tonnes of CO2 but these new coal power stations will have a nifty device built in their chimneys that will collect the CO2 and store it somewhere safe. Like at the bottom of a coal mine or better still pump it into all those empty natural gas fields that presently litter the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. The people proposing this have absolutely no way of testing if the CO2 stored in these convenient places will actually stay where it is put, theory might suggest it will but at the dawn of the railway era there was a theory that a speed of 30 mph was sufficient to extinguish all life in the human body. This wonderful idea, will it work or is it something new for future generations to worry about and hate us for. But by the time they turn up and maybe have to deal with millions of tonnes of CO2 released from it’s undersea dungeon by tectonic movement we’ll be a long time dead and past caring. And, fortunately incapable of having a guilty conscience.