I agree it's time for more nuclear power in Hong Kong. (Time for more nuclear power?… 27 November)
We've been told we must "listen to the science".
The science is that nuclear power is the cheapest, cleanest and safest reliable base power in the world. (About the same as Wind and Solar, but neither of them can be a base power).
We can subsidise wind and solar all we want, but here in Hong Kong we simply don't have the space. Even as CLP is doing offshore wind we know from elsewhere that this can only be a small part of the mix.
Here is the chart of safety and greenhouse gas emissions of the different types of electricity generation:
While the relative costs are shown below. Note that nuclear is amongst the cheapest.
It's about time we stopped listening to the likes of Greenpeace. It's because of their scare tactics that we are now not net zero on electricity production: it was they who frightened us out of moving big time into nuclear electricity, back in the seventies. They are still at it. Even as they scream about "climate emergency".
More Daya Bays I say! Please. Nothing else -- not solar, not wind — will provide the clean reliable base-load electrify we need. That's the science!
Peter F. etc…
