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> The report looks at other renewable sources for Exeter. Apparently > photovoltaic cells on all suitably aligned roofs would cost nearly a > billion and provide about a MW, for comparison EDF energy plans to add > 6.4GW of capacity with its new nuclear plants. Nothing in this convinces > me that Exeter wouldn't be better drawing it's power from the grid, > although I have a nostalgic yearning for digestion as a power source. > > http://www.exeter.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=11811&p=0 > I'll have to have a skim through that report, interesting stuff indeed. It'd be silly for anyone to think that installing lots of solar panels would play to our strengths as a country. A single wind turbine could produce more power then that figure you gave and would cost sub Â2million from beginning to end, or thereabouts anyway. I think we have to use a combination of things, not just down here in Cornwall and Devon but all over the country. Someone's got to do something quick, and intelligent for that matter, because these sorts of things don't sort themselves out, and if we're not careful something will catch up with us. Thanks for the link by the way, didn't know such a report had been compiled. -- Aled Parry ap357@xxxxxxxx people.ex.ac.uk/ap357 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html