Bag's Rants

Manipulating facts for the writers bias.

I was reading this article on renewable energy in Oz. I find this stuff fascinating as, like the wild west, they are cut off from all the niceties like power, running water and even having medical treatment on call. I've been reading up on how some of these people have hundred thousand gallons of water in storage as well as fuel for the generators and, more recently, solar panels and turbines to augment power. Sounds good. Read more here about renewable energy in Oz.

Then I come across a bit in the article which gives out some facts but in reality says nothing but the authors bias.

It said '..if you take large-scale hydro projects out of the equation, only about 2% of the world's electricity is generated through solar, wind and other renewable technologies.'

Mmmm. If you take out the biggest contributor of renewable technologies out of the equation only 2%. Clearly large scale hydro projects are a big contributor to power generation. China is building a massive one now. There are several across the world. So what percentage of power is really supplied by total renewable resources now? We don't know because the article clearly is minimising the scale to encourage us to move to renewable technologies.

It's a bit like saying '..if you take criminals out of the equation, only about 2% of the world's shootings are by non government bodies' or '..if you take cars out of the equation, only about 2% of the world's greenhouse gases are created by transport'. Two totally meaningless statements.

Lies, damn lies, and statistics. I'm beginning to wonder if any of our media is unbiased?

posted by Bag @ 8:54 am