19 May 2006
Community Renewables Course at CAT.
I spent last weekend at the Centre for Alternative Technology in North Wales doing a course called “Community Renewable Energy Schemes
An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent
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18 May 2006
Leading the Way Conference and the launch of the D.A.R.E. Report (downloadable here…)
Last week at the Great Hall at Dartington saw a conference called **’Leading the Way – the Potential for Renewable Energy in the South Hams’** which launched a new report by the Devon Association for Renewable Energy. The report looks at all the renewable energy options for Totnes and the wider South Hams area, and assesses their feasibility and how much energy each option could provide. Its conclusion is that if all renewable energy options for the area were harnessed to the maximum they could generate between 30 and 40% of current demand, identifying conservation as the essential first step.
8 May 2006
Why Nuclear Power in not a Solution to Peak Oil – The Final Installment. Because there are Just Too Many Other Reasons…
I’m going to move on from this nuclear thing now as I have some other great things to bring you (just wait for tomorrow’s great **Transition Culture** exclusive!) and because once I’ve started I could go on for weeks. My final reason why nuclear power is not a response to peak oil is simply that there are so many other reasons. The list of reasons why this monstrous form of energy generation will do absolutely nothing to get us out of the yawning energy chasm is so lengthy that I can really do it no justice beyond scratching the surface as I have done over the last few days.
5 May 2006
Why Nuclear Power in not a Solution to Peak Oil – Part 4. How do you propose We Clean Up All The Mess?
I’d like you to imagine yourself about 50 years from now, in a post-peak world. We are assuming for the purpose of this post that everything more or less worked out OK, we managed to contract our economy and our consumer addictions to a point where our quality of life is much improved, where we live in local economies, with local food, local products, local currency and so on.
4 May 2006
Why Nuclear Power is a Non-Response to Peak Oil – Part 3 – because if it Goes Wrong it Goes Really Really Wrong…
At James Lovelock’s recent talk I attended at Dartington, he was asked by the enraged woman in front of me how he could possibly justify nuclear power in the light of what happened at Chernobyl. She worked with children from the area, and felt he had downplayed the scale of what happened there. He replied rather glibly that only 70 people had died there, and they were mostly the firemen and emergency services people who attended the fire, but that no-one else had died that could be directly linked to the disaster. His point was that far more people died in London in the 1950s from inhaling coal fumes and other pollutants, and that the C02 from burning fossil fuels could ultimately kill us all. This appalling dismissal of extensive human misery has recently been challenged.
