local energy
March 23, 2005, 5:09 pm
Filed under: sustainability

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.


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rob sent me this [excellent article](/docs/farm-costs-and-food-miles.pdf) (350kb pdf) which makes the case for local food very powerfully.

Comment by tom 04.04.05 @ 8:36 am



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