local energy
a letter in the guardian weekly pointed me to this page.
it’s rather long and dull. but is essential reading for all those of us enjoying peak oil. a fairly rigorous analysis concludes that by changing electricity generation from centralised to localised
“saves the world $5 trillion in capital investment while reducing power costs by 40 percent and cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half.”
not bad.
Wednesday, 23 March 2005
One response to local energy
rob sent me this [excellent article](/docs/farm-costs-and-food-miles.pdf) (350kb pdf) which makes the case for local food very powerfully.