Saltire Prize applications

How to produce at least 2,000,000 kW of power a year

One take the cost of building one nuclear power station including decommissioning costs that the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), set up last April to supervise state-owned nuclear plants, said it was "almost certain" that its initial clean up estimate of £56bn - itself the equivalent of a charge of £800 for every adult and child in the country - would have to be revised upwards. This doesn't count the cost of building the actual power station which is in the billions as well and don't bother

Instead use the massive amount of money saved to install in every home in the country starting with Scotland pv solar panels on the roofs

In 2007, there were 2.3 million households in Scotland - over 270,000 more than in 1991. Over the last year, there has been an increase of 22,400 households (one per cent). This is a lot houses and indeed a lot of roofs, this doesn't take into account the other types of buildings such as warehouses, factories and public buildings

PV power cells are made of semi-conducting materials similar to those used in computer chips. So we might consider a fortunate that in Scotland we have silicon glen

Silicon Glen is a nickname for the high tech sector of Scotland. It is applied to the Central Belt triangle between Dundee, Inverclyde and Edinburgh, which includes Fife, Glasgow and Stirling; the dependency on electronics manufacturing hit Silicon Glen hard after the collapse of the hi-tech economy in 2000., National Semiconductor, Motorola and others all laid off substantial numbers of employees or closed factories completely.much of the factories and infrastructure are still there the Motorola factory in Dunfermline is a prime example, these buildings could be retooled for the production PV panels not only would this provide manufacturing jobs and regenaration of towns that have felt the impact of oversea electronic companies pulling out all of the UK Scotland in particular it would also provide jobs for installers and maintenance technicians and the possibilities of Export although these devices have a 30 – 40 year life span and typically mass production or commodity tends to bring the price of production of a commodity down there for its reasonable to suspect that the same can be said for photovoltaic panels if the government uses the cost of one nuclear power station and it's expected cleanup costs at the end of the life to fund such an endeavor it would not only reduces carbon emissions by a substantial amount it will go a long way to meeting government targets

It's strange to think that when satellite TV started 20 years ago or so a satellite dishes on the sides of houses were rare thing, yet today their everywhere one wonders why this hasn't happened with solar panels which have been around for a lot longer and saves you money unlike satellite television,

one of the possible added benefits and although I'm no scientist it seems reasonable that given the amount of glass that will be on people's roofs a percentage of solar radiation received by panel will be reflected back into space thus helping to cool the planet and again helping global warming

imagine the whole of the country producing a least 1 kW or free energy being directed back into the national grid per household and this is a minimum output, okay it's not the cure the energy problem overnight but neither will the nuclear power station, it takes 10 to 15 years or more to build a nuclear power station bulbs we already have the houses we just need to make the panels and install them which are a lot less complicated than the nuclear power station and a lot safer