Home made energy - UK

[cedric]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4187635.ece

Homeowners are to be offered extra financial incentives to fit their properties with solar panels and wind turbines in an ambitious green energy programme to reduce the nation’s dependence on fossil fuels.

At the heart of the £100 billion renewable energy strategy, due to be unveiled this week, is a proposal to encourage householders to generate their own power.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Back to the Future

This reminds me of the British sitcom during the seventies, Good Neighbors where a married couple decided to chuck the rat race and devoted their time to frugality and thrift.

http://valdefierro.com/neighbors.html

[cedric]

2. Drop in the ocean

The Labour Party has totally failed with regards to facing up to the issues facing us. Gordon Brown is too tightly wound around the finger of big business and the initiatives being suggested now will fail to resolve the problems facing us. The major parties ignored for too long the calls that were made over the last twenty years to improve insulation, reduce our reliance on oil etc. etc.

Now they are simply failing to address the problems.

[Speck Tater]

3. Sounds interesting.

Added to my NetFlix queue.

[dkf]

4. This is my DREAM. We all generate our own energy...

then we are not beholden to big oil or any corporations. We achieve true energy independence!!!

[ladjf]

5. We wouldn't have to generate all of our electricity needs to end

the oil monopoly. If the demand for oil was cut by 25% due to the availability of alternate sources, the price of oil would drop to about $50 per barrel.

[dkf]

6. Not good enough for me. I don't want our military having to be all over the place

in order to protect our oil supply.

Its not about money. Its about not being in charge of your own destiny.

[ladjf]

7. When I said "alternate energy sources" I was referring to wind,

solar, geothermal, and tidal sources. That has nothing to do with the military.

[dkf]

8. Oh, I thought you still had use for oil in my life...like gas in my car.

Eventually, I hope to have an electric car and have solar panels for electricity. We already have solar heaters and that helps quite a bit.

We will still need petroleum products for fertilizer and maybe plastics and jet fuel.

[ladjf]

10. Alternate energy sources as we've discussed are the obvious

and only solution to the "extortion" that is being carried out by the oil interests. Once their monopoly is broken, the human race can began to start moving again toward a good quality of life.

[NYC_SKP]

9. I share your dream.

It's a noble goal, but in the near term I'll settle for energy independence as a country before the minute of my death. I'm not holding my breath.