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 (350kb pdf) which makes the case for local food very powerfully.