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Duncan Graham-Rowe
March 2006
March 2006
As the spectre of global warming becomes ever more real, the debates on green technologies hot up. Some would have us believe that wind turbines are the only hope, whilst others insist they are an eyesore that won't fulfil our energy needs anyway.
The British Government seems to be turning to nuclear power as a way to cleaner air, but environmentalists are against it. How well can the anti-nuclear camp support their case when it appears that renewable sources of energy can't actually meet our current demands?
What new technologies are in the pipeline to get us out of a looming energy gap? And if renewables cant meet our energy needs now, what about in the future? Or if nuclear power really is the lesser evil then just how much has the technology come on in the last couple of decades?
