RE: Re: Domestic wind turbine

["Ian Lowe" <ianlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Problem is people are trying to prevent something happening that
*WILL*
happen anyway - it's just
> "when?". Sure, we're not helping things but no matter what
we do we cannot
stop this rock that we
> live on doing whatever it is going to do - we're just hanging on and
enjoying the ride.

Sorry, but... That's wrong. Point blank wrong.

Nobody (apart from the boards of US Oil companies, I guess) is trying to
prvent the reserves of Oil from running out - that's seen as inevitable at
this point. What they are trying to do is prevent it from screwing the rest
of the world over in the process.

The Environmental factors are bad enough - but how do you fancy perpetual
war, with taxes increasing year on year to pay for it?  Look to the east.
China's oil consumption is growing at 12% a year - and the middle east is
already a warzone with no more capacity to tap.

Do you think that the other nations involved will voluntarily take one for
the team so that team GB can keep on trucking? Our armed forces are
stretched thin, and we were only riding shotgun in Iraq - wanna guess how
much money (ie tax) it will take to strengthen that army to the point that
we can *fight* for an oil supply?

It might be 100 years till the last drop is drawn.. But it'll only be
twenty
till every last drop is drawn at gunpoint, and guarded like the crown
jewels.

Far from being irrelevant to this, one wee bloke with a wind turbine is the
whole point - the more people who install small scale solar and wind, the
lower the "big ticket" generation capacity needs to be. The more
people buy
smart energy management systems, the more technology advances, the cheaper
it gets for everyone - and the greater it's impact becomes.

Personally, I'd rather see the government chucking some coin at research
projects in this country than arming to the teeth to fight over the black
stuff. Scientists are dramatically cheaper to run than tanks.

In all of this, I see two major problems. Green doomsayers who proclaim
disaster - and Jeremy Clarkson (et al) with the whole "it's all just a
big
laugh" (but dear god don't think about the consequences for even a
moment)
response. Neither is particularly helpful.

Thankfully, there's a lot of people in the middle just plugging away trying
to fix the problems. Hydrogen fuel cells, HE voltaic cells, hybrid cars,
affordable turbines, etc etc.