Your chance to be in control of energy policy!

Anne Thomas Posted 2010-07-29 16:51 (#285) Subject: Your chance to be in control of energy policy! Extreme Veteran Posts: 319 See this link to a website inspired by Prof David Mackay from Cambridge University, Department of energy and Climate Change Chief Scientist. http://2050-calculator-tool.decc.gov.uk/ You can play with supply, demand and sequestration and see how to balance the books. It follows on from his book http://www.withouthotair.com/Contents.html It shows how hard it is going to be to reach 80% reduction in green house gasses by 2050 and and its likely to be harder because of the likely population increase as people from warmer climates migrate further north as their agriculture fails. See also the Independent article http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/how-i-tried... Martin Posted 2010-07-31 22:46 (#290 - in reply to #285) Subject: Re: Your chance to be in control of energy policy! Veteran Posts: 275 This is very dangerous - I could spend days playing with it. But actually the general message can be obtained pretty quickly - as Anne says, it's going to be hard! There's a report about some of the ways of achieving the 80% reduction, downloadable from http://www.decc.gov.uk/assets/decc/What%20we%20do/A%20low%20carbon%...