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> Yup - and think about the levels of investment made in R & D as opposed to it being thought of as just wacky nutters technology. Solar is advancing fast, but tidal/wave havent had serious investment and design yet.
Again ill-informed codswallop - there has been investment programme after investment programme.
> This is opposed to the recent >£500 million spend by the government in the cleanup (let alone R & D) of the nuclear plants. A payment which incidently gives the private British nuclear company a chance of making a profit.
Assuming you are talkiing about BNFL (or whatever the constituent part is called that looks after decommissioning - NDA?), then again more b*llocks as it isn't a private company, but wholly owned by the Govt.
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> Ah, thats reassuring a lobbyist claiming they do not campaign against some legislation.
> So the companies you lobby for would never push for a particular point of view simply because it would result in the best result for them or vice versa?
I don't really work for large scale power generators, but I do get a fair amount of contact with them and whta they are working on and to be honest I couldn't care less whether you believe me or not. However as a lobbying strategy the one thing guaranteed to get politicians jumping up and down would be for power generators to lobby against energy efficiency, much safer to keep quiet (there really would be no convincing arguments about increasing efficiency!). As I said in my experience as someone who works in this area a lot most companies are in favour of energy savings - see earlier.