Extract from Lords debate on the Queen's Speech - Jan 9
Friday, 10 January 2020 09:23
Lord Rees of Ludlow (CB): My Lords, the Government’s rhetoric
indicates a welcome willingness to contemplate radical initiatives
in research and education. That is especially crucial if we are to
confront the energy challenge. The Climate Change Act’s 2050 target
is indeed daunting. We need not just to decarbonise existing levels
of electricity production, but to treble production, to energise
electrically powered transport and heating and for electrolytic
production of hydrogen and...Request free trial
(CB): My Lords, the
Government’s rhetoric indicates a welcome willingness to
contemplate radical initiatives in research and education. That is
especially crucial if we are to confront the energy challenge. The
Climate Change Act’s 2050 target is indeed daunting. We need not
just to decarbonise existing levels of electricity production, but
to treble production, to energise electrically powered transport
and heating and for electrolytic production of hydrogen and
hydrocarbons needed for long-distance aviation. We need innovation
to get and store energy more efficiently from sun, wind and tides,
and, given our traditional expertise in nuclear energy, to
investigate fourth-generation concepts, such as small modular
reactors which could prove cheaper, more flexible and safer than
existing nuclear reactors. The potential pay-off from fusion in the
long term is so great that it is worth developing prototypes...
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