Royal Academy of Engineers says we will have an energy gap as soon as 2015-16, we need urgent action from politicians:
Fossil fuels cut by 75%
- use for home heating or transport, but not both
- Home heating to be by heat pumps, ban gas boilers
Renewable energy up x20
- 20000 wind turbines
- 36m2 solar on every house
- 1000 miles of sea snakes
- tidal barrage across Severn + 2300 tidal turbines
- Burning of waste -> electricity & biofuel
New power
- 40 new nuclear or clean coal power stations
Energy efficiency
- 20% improvement for white goods an gadgets
- 40% cut in home heating
- Huge effort into retrofitting buildings to make the energy efficient
New charging network for electric cars - smart grid, charge only when renewables (wind, sun) most available
Reduce long commutes to work, constraints on where we live. Reduce car milage, truck milage
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