{"id":1495,"date":"2006-04-21T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/2006\/04\/barrage-of-hope.html"},"modified":"2006-04-21T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T14:39:00","slug":"barrage-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1495","title":{"rendered":"A barrage of hope."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>At last the green power community have homed in on the right thing for us folks on this sceptred isle to do.  One project that can provide upto 7% of the UK&#8217;s  electricity for the next few hundred years with no pollution greenhouse gases, radiation or fuel costs.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/wales\/south_east\/4927744.stm\">report today<\/a> that the Severn Barrage is under active consideration again. I remember the <a href=\"http:\/\/r-energy.co.uk\/history.html\">earlier attempts<\/a> and the report in 1975 which came out against it (I&#8217;m pretty sure, rather unbelievably, no consideraion of fuel cost was allowed in power station building, so the fact the &#8216;fuel&#8217; was free was ignored rather like the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_of_Scotland_Hydro-Electric_Board\">Scottish hydroelectric schemes<\/a> which produced &#8216;the most expensive&#8217; electricity in the UK  and now of cause produce the cheapest.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that we could have had a Severn crosssing for &#8216;free&#8217; instead of the <span style=\"font-size:-1;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.severnbore.ndirect.co.uk\/bridges.htm\">\u00a3300,000,000 that was spent on the second crossing  <\/a>plus all the other tourism benefits means we have already lost out considerably.<\/p>\n<p>Lets hope the ducks don&#8217;t win this one and that sanity prevails.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last the green power community have homed in on the right thing for us folks on this sceptred isle to do. One project that can provide upto 7% of the UK&#8217;s electricity for the next few hundred years with no pollution greenhouse gases, radiation or fuel costs. The BBC report today that the Severn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}