The choice on energy.....

Here's the choice, according to Professor Philip Stott of the University of London, in an op-ed in the Times today:

It's this simple: wind farms the size of London, or safe, clean nuclear plants

To replace a 1,000 megawatt (MW) nuclear station supplying just 1/65th of peak demand requires 30 miles of wave machines; or it would need a wind farm that would cover an area equivalent to Inner London, or for solar power, it would require an area half as much again. If we were to try to replace the output of that 1,000MW nuclear power station with bio-oils or biomass fuels, we would have to cover the entire Scottish Highlands with oil-seed rape or turn Wales into a giant willow coppice.