Re: Guardian: Solar power from Sahara could provide Europe's

On 23 Jul, 20:03, Paul C <p...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:37:51 -0700 (PDT), Robert S
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> <roberts2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >On 23 Jul, 18:32, Steve Wallis
> ><revolutionarysocialistst...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> From today's Guardian
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/
> >> 23/solarpower.windpower), in an article referred to on the front
page.
> >> There is a picture with the caption "A concentrating solar power
(CSP)
> >> plant in Spain that uses panels to reflect light on to a central
tower
> >> to produce electricity. Similar plants are proposed for north
Africa."
> >> of a new kind of solar power plant that I had not heard of before,
> >> despite reading a serious newspaper nearly every day and having got
> >> New Scientist for the last six months. Perhaps this was due to a
> >> conspiracy to keep knowledge from us of how easily the world's energy
> >> problems could be solved, cheaply and without causing global warming
> >> (whether or not such warming has mainly been caused by humans).
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> >> Maybe the political will to back such a solution will now be found,
> >> rather than taking up the expensive and dangerous nuclear option.
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> >Nuclear power is neither expensive nor dangerous. Ask the French.
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> Or those around Chernobyl.

Chernobyl tells us that competently designed and maintained reactors
are dangerous how exactly?