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> But are you really saying that 'traditional' ways of genrating power are 'greener'?

(Hi Moth)

I appreciate the green power debate and that change must happen or else we are all fried. But as my own particular interest is the landscape (especially my own!) I think the detriment to the landscape outweighs the advantages. Remote country areas are easy targets for developers and government agencies who bully their way through the planning process without regard to the other strong argument that certain parts of our countryside should be protected from commercial and industrial exploitation.

After all isn't saving the landscape part of saving the planet?

"After all isn't saving the landscape part of saving the planet?"

That is true, but there are other parts of our planet we do not see. Should you go down the nuclear option, the mining of uranium is terribly destructive; its blasted out of the earth leaving gigantic open pits, they use sulphuric, nitric, ammonia to break it down from the rock, and guess where all the residue goes, straight back into the environment. Calculating energy used to extract and refine uranium and then build those montrous places, you will end up using more energy that you get back....short term solution. Everyone just has to use less energy starting now, windmills are a must. like Littlestone said, we should all start thinking about micro energy on an individual scale.. Found all that in the Ecologist by the way ;) Moss