Bag's Rants

Yawn. Politics in action.

It seems that despite the high profile given to using renewable energy the government still won't just allow us to put up turbines willy nilly. Read here about Cameron having to have his removed until it can be re-sited to meet local planning rules.

What if his rickety old house couldn't stand having this turbine attached to the chimney? After all it must be running like Billy Whiz to generate 30% of his power requirements. Think of the webcam, computer, etc. at the very least. His bills must be above the norm. A good question is will he actually put it back up now he has already reaped the publicity?

Anyway, what that means is with Cameron now having to pull all of his power from the grid for the moment that could mean a spike in usage we need to compensate for. Maybe we should ask all conservativestory voters in that area to cut back and make one less cuppa a day or something.

The issue here however is that local planning rules mean that people can't just add on items like this to their houses. It might upset the neighbours. So it's not just the cost of the turbines, it also the additional costs of the local planning office and expert installers who we need to get involved. On the other hand our local councils can do what they want to meet their environmental targets. Will we be seeing massive wind turbines on school fields or parks because the public is not putting up enough?

More importantly, why am I not really surprised to see this?

posted by Bag @ 12:33 pm