Ever wonder about the state of play of the UK in the struggle against global warming... or our future energy security?
Well this chart shows our energy consumption - 74% from fossil fuels which all give out tons and tons of CO2. [and don't forget that nearly 50% of our existing fossil fuel electricity sources will be closed by 2015 and we have no plans to replace them - the lights will go out guys]
So we spend 125kWh/day/person (125kWh = a 12.kW heater on for 10 hours), and from renewables we get the miserable total of 18.3kWh/day/person.
Why?
Because no one wants energy generation (wind, wave, solar, etc) in their back yard and our planning processes give people too much power to object and refuse to have them near their house. Why? They can only make things better, can't they?
Renewables will give us new, hi-tech jobs, clean energy, much reduced reliance on imported energy (oil, gas, electricity which we import more and more)...
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