The Save The World Awards In Pictures And Jacksons

FOR the first Save The World Awards, we journey by plane, foot and piggyback to the Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant in Lower Austria, a place built but never used.

The Austrians, we learn, said “no” to atomic energy. The power plant never saw active service. But don’t worry about the waste because the plant will soon become a solar power plant. Which means everyone can feel so much better about the carbon footprint of building a power plant that was never used to generate any power. And the great and the good can attend its unveiling, arriving on foot, camel and swimming pool etc…

Let’s hear it for unreliable and intermittent power supplies!

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Anorak

Posted: 27th, July 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)