Friday 22 July 2011

UK - Ready for Energy Solution?

The UK desperately needs a new energy strategy and could seize the opportunity of being the spearhead to a new attitude and approach to energy sourcing and security. Legislation, (Climate Change Act 2008), confines an energy approach focussed on pollutant emissions and limits foresight and technological development by keeping attention fixed on current means of energy generation. The UK has no objective measure of its assetts. Expanded into the geo-politacal arena, the issues of energy sourcing and security are at the root of all troublespots in the world. While the vision of a 'low carbon' infrastructure maintains a profit focus on cap and trade, or carbon taxing policies, development is equally confined to the profit opportunities of bio-mass and token gesture towards hydro, wind, and solar energy . There is a complete disregard of the agricultural impact of bio-mass and blind ignorance of technological advance into clean, non-polluting energy sourcing, proven by inspired inventors.

After the hegemony of the oil industry following two world wars the UK no longer commands as much influence in energy strategy. If U.K. Energy Secretary Chris Huhne had the foresight of a realisitic energy future and were to seize the opportunity of new energy potentials, the UK could again lead the world into a new era of innovation and prosperity that would change the face of the world for the better in much the same way as industrial imperialism has changed the world for the worse. With a £200 billion vision of a low carbon infrastructure, a public debt of £1 trillion, a massive trade deficit, and foresight blinkered within current modalities the future is bleak as combustibles and nuclear energy generation are harmful in all respects. The UK's energy and economic policy relies on assumptions that are completely unrealistic and public communications offer a thin veneer of will to change.

With nuclear disaster in Japan and the absurd situation of energy security creating more insecurity in the world then ever before, alongside the desperate development of 'fracking' for gas and 'unconventional oil', and the development of bio-mass furnaces as the only major solutions to alternate energy generation (which is also identified as profitable), it seems that those responsible as energy authorities have hopelessly lost the plot to the peril of all life on this planet. Can we not grown up from the experience of two world wars, the cold war and the  warm war of these days? The closed minds of puppet governments stifled by the directives of EU policy and the flexing of the International Energy Agency are impenetrable to the news that infinite energy is freely available to us and new science has shown that it is accessible and useable. New Energy Is Solution.

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