Extract rom Lords debate on Environment: 25-year Plan - Jan 29
Tuesday, 30 January 2018 07:17
Lord Hunt of Chesterton (Lab):...With this cleaner energy, we may
well have a future in which vehicles are primarily electrically
driven. As Rolls-Royce explained in a seminar last week,
we may also have electrically driven short-range aeroplanes.
Another feature of clean energy supplies will be the pumping and
desalination of water, which enables the billions of people still
suffering from water shortages and waterborne diseases to get
water, as was debated last week here in the...Request free trial
(Lab):...With this cleaner energy, we may well have a
future in which vehicles are primarily electrically driven.
As Rolls-Royce explained in a seminar last
week, we may also have electrically driven short-range aeroplanes.
Another feature of clean energy supplies will be the pumping and
desalination of water, which enables the billions of people still
suffering from water shortages and waterborne diseases to get
water, as was debated last week here in the Lords. Over the next 25
years the Government should also consider the decades after that,
when the UK will finally have to begin to deal with its stored
nuclear radioactive waste. It may be in geological reserves or, as
Euratom has suggested, it could be transformed and made safe by
alternative isotopes...
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