Energy Conservation, not just Generation (Gordonmac dot com)

Energy Conservation, not just Generation

by Gordon • Aug 11 2009 • Category: Environment

Whilst reading the John Muir Trust's “What we think” page I came across this very compelling point within their manifesto about wind farms:

The current rush for large scale onshore wind developments, connected by a hugely centralised grid system shows a poverty of imagination and thinking rooted in the early 20th Century. If attention continues to be focused on increasing renewable energy targets, without any requirement to demonstrate what each development will achieve in greenhouse gas emissions reductions (including all aspects of the generation and transmission), we face a possible worst case scenario, where we achieve renewable energy targets through inappropriate developments and at great cost to important environments - only to discover that our greenhouse gas emissions are up, along with our energy consumption, and our energy supply is not secure.

I also quite liked Tony Juniper, director of Friends of the Earth take on things:

Climate change is no longer a theory. It is the world's most pressing environmental problem and the anti-lobby, helped by nuclear interests, is trying to undermine Britain's role as a leader in tackling it and to fatally delay action. Wind is the most advanced of all the renewable technologies, but it needs to be followed quickly by solar, wave, tidal, biomass and others," he says. "No one is arguing that wind generators should cover all the national parks. That would be mad. The landscape can and must be protected.

Me, well I think we all think we're in control, and that's why I'm sitting on the *anti* side of the fence and rooting my beliefs in the Gaia hypothesis :) ❖

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