Campaigning Begins!
Our leaflets come back from the printer tonight, and we'll be out on the streets of Earlsdon tomorrow from 1230pm onwards. We've managed to get 7000 A5 leaflets printed!
Fascinating interview on Channel 4 News tonight. Jon Snow behaving like Paxman, as he tried to get some straight answers out of Malcolm Wicks, the Energy Minister. The door is still wide open for nuclear, and renewable energy sources (such as geothermal heat pump, wind or solar PV) are receiving a tenth of the funding when you compare the UK with other countries.
Amory Lovins, of the Rocky Mountain Institute, is one of the world's experts on renewable energy vs nuclear:
http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid1151.php
Lovins: "Private investors have flatly rejected nuclear power but enthusiastically bought its main supply-side competitors—decentralized cogeneration and renewables. Worldwide, by the end of 2004, these supposedly inadequate alternatives had more installed capacity than nuclear, produced 92% as much electricity, and were growing 5.9 times faster and accelerating, while nuclear was fading."
Kirklees council in Yorkshire has pledged that, by 2011, at least 30% of energy consumption will be through renewable sources such as solar panels, wind turbines, and biomass boiler plants that run off non-fossil fuel such as wood pellets and vegetable oil. New residential homes and schools now under construction or in the design stage are already incorporating wind turbines and solar panels.
We'd like to see that replicated in Coventry.
Fascinating interview on Channel 4 News tonight. Jon Snow behaving like Paxman, as he tried to get some straight answers out of Malcolm Wicks, the Energy Minister. The door is still wide open for nuclear, and renewable energy sources (such as geothermal heat pump, wind or solar PV) are receiving a tenth of the funding when you compare the UK with other countries.
Amory Lovins, of the Rocky Mountain Institute, is one of the world's experts on renewable energy vs nuclear:
http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid1151.php
Lovins: "Private investors have flatly rejected nuclear power but enthusiastically bought its main supply-side competitors—decentralized cogeneration and renewables. Worldwide, by the end of 2004, these supposedly inadequate alternatives had more installed capacity than nuclear, produced 92% as much electricity, and were growing 5.9 times faster and accelerating, while nuclear was fading."
Kirklees council in Yorkshire has pledged that, by 2011, at least 30% of energy consumption will be through renewable sources such as solar panels, wind turbines, and biomass boiler plants that run off non-fossil fuel such as wood pellets and vegetable oil. New residential homes and schools now under construction or in the design stage are already incorporating wind turbines and solar panels.
We'd like to see that replicated in Coventry.
posted by scott redding at 11:04 pm
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