This will make it really easy for China or Iran (or anybody with access to a nice quite sub) to wipe out power to England. I usually credit the Brits with being a bit smarter than this. It will be a short WWIII for England.
Read it: "UK wants every home wind-powered by 2020"
Do you seriously thing military and government installations will be powered by this shit? Uh, no. Our nuclear deterrent is also all on nice, self contained mobile submarines. The plan calls for powering all HOMES by wind power. It doesn't state "go mad and get rid of all power generation and use windmills for EVERYTING". If this plan goes ahead, we'll still have oil/coal stations, nuclear reactors and pumped storage.
Furthermore, I really don't think all of these will be clumped in one place with a "bombz go here plzkthx" sign up. And ya know, I think the Royal Navy might notice people creeping about in submarines blowing up wind turbines.
Uh, yeah, cos it would be so much easier to blow up 7000 turbines placed over hundreds of miles of coastline than it would be to blow up 3 or 4 nuclear power plants.
/sarcasm
Seriously, wouldn't spreading the power generation to thousands of sites make the chance of taking it all out in an attack much LESS likely? So I think it's a good plan.
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This will make it really easy for China or Iran (or anybody with access to a nice quite sub) to wipe out power to England. I usually credit the Brits with being a bit smarter than this. It will be a short WWIII for England.
We shouldn't worry about war no more but unfortunately this is still true...
Good job we have one of the worlds best ship defences!
Read it: "UK wants every home wind-powered by 2020"
Do you seriously thing military and government installations will be powered by this shit? Uh, no. Our nuclear deterrent is also all on nice, self contained mobile submarines. The plan calls for powering all HOMES by wind power. It doesn't state "go mad and get rid of all power generation and use windmills for EVERYTING". If this plan goes ahead, we'll still have oil/coal stations, nuclear reactors and pumped storage.
Furthermore, I really don't think all of these will be clumped in one place with a "bombz go here plzkthx" sign up. And ya know, I think the Royal Navy might notice people creeping about in submarines blowing up wind turbines.
Uh, yeah, cos it would be so much easier to blow up 7000 turbines placed over hundreds of miles of coastline than it would be to blow up 3 or 4 nuclear power plants.
/sarcasm
Seriously, wouldn't spreading the power generation to thousands of sites make the chance of taking it all out in an attack much LESS likely? So I think it's a good plan.
Wouldn't need to blow them all up. Just scatter some lengths of cable into the blades and watch them all bind up!