Blue Peter
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Let me say that again, to maintain business as usual for one year post peak an additional 300 nuclear power stations would have to be built (and fueled!) in a year, there are only about 420 in the world today. And that's assuming electricity is a perfect substitute for energy from oil which it isn't.
Hopefully this should show that it is imposable to maintain our energy supply post peak, unless you think we can bring one nuclear power station on line every 30 hours throughout a year.
Costs? A nuclear power stations costs around £2bn so the bill would be £600bn, the 1.5 billion barrels of oil they replace cost around £54bn.
Chris,
Those figures really bring the point home. You ought to post them on PowerSwitch (www.powerswitch.org.uk) as well.
Peter.
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I did not pay much attention, as i shall change suppliers, and the letter went straight into the bin.
I don't know whether they're still doing it, but Powergen were doing a capped price deal, which might be a good move in a world of increasing fuel prices,
Peter.
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If you are about to go STR it's probably not a good idea to say 'because I think this house will go down in value!'. What are good alternatives that don't require too much lying, when really that is the overriding reason?
"Looking to buy a house with a bigger garden for our two young sons. We put in offers on two possibles but lost them because we hadn't sold ours. Because the market's now so slow, and we now have a buyer, we thought that we'd rent until something came along."
is what I've been using,
Peter.
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Forgive me if this has been asked but to what price would oil have to hit now to surpass the last peaks in '74 and '90 in real terms?
$80 is the usual figure quoted,
Peter.
Life....after Peak Oil
in House prices and the economy
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Good, I'll look forward
to reading it, though those numbers really scare me....
Peter.