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Chris: 
Yes. OK. th a t’s fin e . I’ll add the deta ils to the handout. Anything else?
Shirley: 
Yes. I'm not sure w h e th e r the s o la r energy sta tis tic s w ill be too m uch fo r the audience to take in -
th ere's a lot of num bers and graphs. Can we put the sta tis tic s on a handout too?
Chris: 
Mm, I see yo ur point. We don 't w an t people looking at lots of num bers w hile w e're speaking.
Tom: 
But w ith o u t the sta tistics, I don 't see how we can support o ur m ain ideas.
Shirley: 
A ctually, you're rig ht, Tom. I had n't th ou gh t about that. In th a t case, can we delete the d ia g ra m s ? It's 
going to take too m uch tim e to explain them .
Tom: 
Hm. Let's th in k about that a bit m ore. If we have to choose between taking out the sta tis tic s o r the
diagram s. I th in k we should opt fo r the diagram s - they're less c ru c ia l to the presentation. W hat do you 
both th ink?
Shirley: 
I th in k it's going to w o rk m uch b e tte r than the o rig in a l plan we had.
Chris: 
A bsolutely. We w o n 't have to w o rry about ta lkin g fo r longer than fifte e n m inutes if we remove the
d iagram s and focus on the m ain ideas and s ta tis tic s . S hall we a ll m eet again to m o rro w to fin alise the 
details?
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Audio scripts
Hi, everyone! S orry I'm late.
D on't w orry, Hannah, we've only ju s t started. We th o u g h t we should go over the th eo rie s w e ’ve studied 
so fa r so w e ’re ready fo r the s e m in a r discussion on T hursday a fte rn o o n .
Of course, you’re rig h t. I d on’t th in k I can rem em be r a ll the th eo rie s related to co nsu m e r energy 
consum ption.
No,
Hannah. That's the reading fo r 
Friday's Lecture. Thursdays' sem inar
discussion is about the cu rre n t 
th in kin g on alterna tive energy.
Oh, yes. Sorry. I'm a bit disorganised at the m om ent.
Never m ind. So, Mike, w ha t do th in k about the academ ics' point of view on nuclea r energy?
W ell, I th in k I have to agree w ith them on price being a fa cto r fo r choosing n uclea r in the long te rm .
Me too. It's d efin ite ly the m ost cost effective m ea sure . D on't you agree, Hannah?
To s ta rt w ith I didn't, but the text P rofessor Edwards gave us persuaded me. The only thing th at 
concerns me is th a t there have been som e disasters in various parts of the w orld.
Yes, some texts w arn of the dangers of n uclea r pow er using previous disasters as e xam ples.
I know w ha t you mean, but I suppose the ris k is m in im a l these days. W hat do you th in k about w ind and 
so la r energy in te rm s of the price in relation to the advantages? For me, they're ju s t not w orth it - both 
are expensive and it ’s d iffic u lt to predict the am o un t of energy each one w ill produce.