Tram Town
Sunday, April 09, 2006
| Category: Wind An article on the Adam Smith blog suggests: If each UK household replaced the conventional electric bulb most used with a low energy bulb, the energy saved would equal the entire output of all existing and proposed onshore wind-farms.and in the comment section, this... As for politicians and ‘hot wind’, if you factor in arm-waving as a source of energy then you can generate Gigawatts.The image of an arm-waving Bob Green of the Browns as a windmill amuses me. Just think of him with his feet firmly planted in several tons of concrete! O&BTW, I have no reason to doubt the claim of the factoid but I can't think of a way to verify it either. Just consider it an interesting observation. |
