Where does our power come from

One of the things I struggle with is the arguments put forward by learned men (usually economists who detail the case for nuclear power as a saviour from the greenhouse effect. Given that power is up there with food and transport as one of the 3 main spending categories for consumers this is something where a strong contrary voice is needed.

From the  Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation (TREC) comes a link to reserch published by the German Federal Ministry. The following piece is taken from the TREC page

A new report (‘TRANS-CSP‘) commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety has calculated that solar electricity imported from CSP plants in North Africa and the Middle East would be one of the cheapest sources of electricity in Europe, and that includes the costs of transmitting it. Supplies would be very much less vulnerable to interruption than are current imports of gas, oil and uranium. The main conclusions of the TRANS-CSP report are described in the press release ‘New report shows how Europe can make deep cuts in CO2 emissions and phase out nuclear power at the same time’.

keith