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About Contact Links Caveat The DR Manifesto...Manifesto I'm not standing for office. I'd be a shite politician, partly because I'm unpleasantly honest and partly because I hate wearing suits... If I wasn't, this is what I'd be campaigning on... (26 Feb 2007) 'Please let my Mother live!'...Environment There's only one way to ensure our survival as a species - live sustainably. It's easy! Nuclear Idiocy (15 January 2007) Sustainability (16 October 2006) Global Warming (15 October 2006) Housing Shortage (15 October 2006) Cycle Paths (11 October 2006) Tourism (10 October 2006) Main Topics...Make Drugs Legal Prohibition doesn't work, duh! It gives too much money to organised crime... Updated: Letter to the Telegraph 'Alcohol and Tobacco are the gateway drugs - if there is such a thing...' (Upd: 11 Mar 2006) Errant Fathers How can fathers be expected to 'take responsibility' for their kids when the law always presumes in favour of the mother? I got a reply - and here's my reply to that Welfare and Compensation Culture = No Legal Responsibility (Upd: 11 Mar 2007) A New Political System A solution for: Party Funding, Reform of The House Of Lords, and it incidentally makes the whole voting process far more democratic... (Upd: 25 Feb 2007) Principles My principles of government. (Upd: 25 Feb 2007) Road Pricing Tony Blair and the entire Labour Government are cretins... Road pricing has to be the most hare-brained scheme ever - devised by the evil cretinous muppets from hell - the Politicians... (19 Feb 2007) Old People Old folks have no respect in our culture. That is so wrong!... (18 Feb 2007) Poverty How do we define poverty? How do we reduce it? Well, not taxing the poor would help... (18 Feb 2007) Europe The EU is a criminal organisation intent on conquest... (Upd: 30 January 2007) Cash for Honours Why would anyone give money to a political party?.. (16 January 2006) Social Security A fresh approach to the problem of how to provide social security... (15 January 2006) David Cameron David Cameron and the Conservative Party... (12 December 2006) Random Rants Some random musings... (12 November 2006) Prisons If prisoners are 'paying their debt to society' - why is is so damn expensive to keep them? (21 October 2006) Tax Taxes kill businesses and people. (16 October 2006) Free Speech Some peoples brains work overtime trying to figure out how to turn opinions into insults... (14 October 2006) Health Why are tax-payers footing the bill for sex-change operations and IVF? (13 October 2006) Law British law is stupidly complex and inefficient. You'd never design a system like that... (13 October 2006) Education Educators need to aim higher, and politicians need to butt-out. (12 October 2006) Security It was a no-brainer that invading Iraq with Bush would cause more grievances than it solved. When has starting a war ever brought peace? (8 October 2006) |
The EU's 15% Target For Renewables22nd January 2008 Guys, It'd be easy to surpass these targets anyway - all the government would have to do is do what the German & Dutch governments have done - and drop taxes on renewables, set buy-back tariffs and allow selling back to the grid. You guys have got to stop thinking of large-scale renewables as being the bread-and-butter of renewable energy. The opposite is the case... Most renewable energy would NOT come from huge installations, but from small ones. For Example:
This *alone* would surpass the 15% target. Plus it is FAR more cost-effective than nuclear and far, far safer. Yesterday I went for a walk to a local river. Swollen by the rains, the water is pounding over the locks & wiers. If those locks and wiers had hydro-electyric turbines - it would *easily* provide enough electricity for the entire village. Even in summer - there's enough flow to provide a decent output. The *only* reason we don't have those turbines is because of wrong-headed priorities & bad legislation. If the country was full of small-scale renewables - the output from the large ones would be able to be used exclusivley for industry and transport. Until you understand that renewables is mostly about small-scale - then your objections to it will be flawed. Original EmailDavid Received this rather late in the day. In view of the crucial importance of this, would it not be better for you & Nigel to formulate a considered UKIP Policy Statement based on the E&E report to which we might add our names if so needed? Best wishes, Derek > Dear Derek and Stephen, Next InstallmentCommentsThis is a sporadically moderated blog. I am not responsible for anything below! There are no comments for this page. To add your own comments, click here to login or register |
