Letters to the Editor: Nuclear power is unavoidable
David McKay, the late Chief Scientific Officer in Britain calculated that British people required 125kWh of energy per person per day.
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SUBSCRIBESuccessive governments have provided little information about Ireland’s increasing energy requirements or how these might be met.
David McKay, the late Chief Scientific Officer in Britain, in his 2008 book, Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air’, gave a good idea of the difficulties of supplying a modern country’s energy needs with renewable energy alone.
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