Tag Archives: Environment

Why nuclear power is not a sustainable source of low carbon energy

An interesting article by John Busby from a newsgroup I subscribe to : csrblokes arguing that nuclear fails as a sustainable energy source on 2 counts: To meet global energy demands today (let alone in the coming decades) we would need 20,000 new nuclear power stations, and there simply isn’t enough Uranium around to supply [...]

Public spirit and BAD bus drivers

While waiting in a queue for the drivers to change over on my number 211 bus this morning at Waterloo, I witnessed both the ugly side, and a really good side of Londoners.  The disembarking driver from the early morning shift tore a strip of paper from the ticket machine, screwed it up and threw [...]