Factoring in all of the elements
From the
UK Telegraph:
Gas �better than wind� for low carbon, Policy Exchange claims
In a report today, Policy Exchange argued that the government should scrap 4GW of its planned 13GW target for offshore wind generation by 2020.
By building cheaper gas generation instead it could save �700-�900m a year in costs that would have been passed onto billpayers, it calculated.
These savings could be redeployed by insulating hundreds of thousands more homes and doubling public funding for research and development in key low-carbon technologies, it said.
That would still leave enough money to �buy and retire sufficient carbon permits each year to reduce emissions by six times as much as the 4GW of offshore wind�.
Makes all kinds of sense to me -- the best improvements are the small ones but the masterminds in control of the environment want to build monuments to themselves.
Defund! Defund! Defund!
(channeling my inner Dalek)
Posted by DaveH at June 9, 2012 10:39 PM