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oil producers taking advantage
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when oil prices started going up we were led to believe this was due to unstable conditions in the producing countries and the wars - but now we hear on the news (BBC4 this morning) the oil producers basically said ooh lets cut production so the price goes up ! of course I'm yet to here of someone that couldn't get petrol because of less oil output but then who am I to argue with governments and oil companies
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So a country would have to spend money to make less money per barrel than before hand, and people wonder why they want a high price?
Solar cells are expensive to make and involve really nasty chemicals. If we are going to use solar we should get North Africa to invest (or invest ourselves) in solar furnances which are a lot simpler, cheaper and safer to build.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504EEDD1239F93BA35751C1A962958260
The estimated oil under Windsor Castle was valued at $1.5 Billion in 1994 - imagine today's price ..
The UK is probably the windiest country in Europe.
Try wind or tidal
Wind should be part of the picture, but given its unreliability it also needs to go hand in hand with other forms.
We should replace two nuclear and push on with the Seven tidal barrier as well as on shore and off shore wind farms.
A tidal barrage system across the Severn Estuary for instance would be capable of producing between 8640 and 15000 mega watts of electricity from one barrage and after the initial cost requires very little money to keep it going, building more than one barrage up the length of the river would provide huge amounts of energy.
A nuclear plant by comparison generates approx 2,000 Mw, and sucks up cash in maintenance.