Madam Speaker, firstly, let me thank the hon Meruti for drawing attention to this very important programme of the pebble bed modular reactor. Those of us in Cape Town are fortunate that there is an excellent exhibit, which I urge all members to visit, at the MTN Science Centre at Century City, which deals not only with pebble bed technology, but with all nuclear energy. It also deals with the issues that hon Schmidt raised, namely the different forms of potential energy. It covers wind, its strength, its weaknesses, what it can do, its likely costs. It deals with biomass and it also deals with solar energy.
All of these forms of energy generation have potential, but it would be misleading to indicate that biomass, solar and wind would solve our problems in 45 years. If you go and see the study, you will see why that is evidently not possible. We have to develop larger base-load stations from other forms. They could be gas-fired, coal-fired or nuclear-fired. That is one of the realities we have to face.
Let me also, very briefly, say to the hon ...