Extracts from Queen's Speech debate (Lords) - Oct 17
Friday, 18 October 2019 07:04
The Lord Bishop of Bristol (Maiden Speech):...Bristol is also a
city of engineers, where ideas are turned into things which change
our lives. My grandfather was an engineer who worked his way up
from an apprenticeship to the line, as foreman for Hawker Siddeley.
His stories were of his pride in Brunel, Rolls-Royce and,
above all, Concorde. Concorde’s home is beyond the city but in the
diocese, which is more than the city of Bristol... Lord Broers
(CB):...Further flexibility in...Request free trial
The Lord
(Maiden Speech):...Bristol is also a city of engineers, where ideas
are turned into things which change our lives. My grandfather was
an engineer who worked his way up from an apprenticeship to the
line, as foreman for Hawker Siddeley. His stories were of his pride
in Brunel, Rolls-Royce and, above all, Concorde.
Concorde’s home is beyond the city but in the diocese, which is
more than the city of Bristol...
(CB):...Further flexibility
in the deployment of nuclear would be provided by small modular
reactors, something recent Governments have been dilly-dallying
with for years. We should get on with this and take up some of the
proposals that have been made, for example
by Rolls-Royce. The situation with nuclear would
be improved even further if we arranged to use efficiently the 40%
of energy it produces in the form of distributed heat—local heat.
After all, heat is the largest fraction of our energy use. Overall,
this opens up the possibility that it may be better to increase the
percentage of nuclear to above 30%, especially as people are
concerned by the vastly greater areas of land needed for onshore
wind or, indeed, for solar PV generation...
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