Certainly the water outflows from Nuclear stations attract fish as they are warmer than the rest of the sea/river. (Or so I am told by fishermen.) One assumes this heat does increase temperatures as does that given off by conventional coal/gas stations. Given the French experience of exporting electricity due in good part to their investment in nuclear stations I wish we went this way rather than littering our landscapes with inefficient windmills. Unfortunately it suits the government to encourage such 'Eco' things to the point that though there is massive local opposition it is expected that a new wind farm will be built near Market Drayton by (you may guess) a foreign owned firm, who will benefit from the gelt while not having to suffer a view of their creations on the skyline. (We think they will be visible at least from Tyrley to Chelmondeston.
--- On Sun, 11/9/08, Bruce Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Bruce Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Fuel pipes and biodiesel [Green-ness] To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, November 9, 2008, 10:06 AM On 8 Nov 2008, at 23:28, Ron Jones wrote: > It has been > proved that wind farms cause massive turbulence and a loss of wind > power, > the result being that the land behind the wind farm (for quite some > distance) experiences a warming of at least 0.8C - and this is to > prevent > "global warming". Is there any data on the impact of conventional or nuclear power stations on downwind temperatures? Certainly the sea off Wylfa was/is warmer than ambient. Myself, I'm actually a pessimist about climate change - the political will is not there to do enough about it quickly enough to have much impact, even if the currently accepted theories are correct (and I don't want to get into all that again!). But that's OK, because the nuclear winter following an exchange between Israel and Iran or Pakistan and India will make the issue irrelevant :-{{ 末 All the best Bruce There are no strangers on the cut, only boaters we've yet to meet. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
