BNP - The Bloody Nasty Party

[jacey]

I don't often post party political stuff, My vote is my own and your vote is your own, but should you be a UK voter and considering voting BNP on Thursday could I please ask you to read this first. Thank you.
http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?31638-A-word-on-the-policies-of-the-BNP

Comments

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I agree that wind energy is far from being a perfect solution. I have many reservations in that area myself. eg. If you build wind turbine in a boggy area, the methane release from the bog and the carbon cost of the cement could outweigh much of the carbon saving. You've got problems of transmission losses (as wind turbines are rarely close to centres of population), etc. The turbines themselves can cause all sorts of problems from flicker when the sun is behind them, to danger to migrating birds.

Politicians like wind turbines. It makes it look as though they're doing something about the problem, and means that they don't have to tell people that they need to change their lifestyles.

Wind *sounds* good. I notice the government are giving grants for baby turbines on roofs, in spite of the fact that the majority of them will never generate as much power as it took to make them in the first place. Roof top turbines are pretty useless - but they make wonderful sound-bites.

However, I don't think the problems with 'green' energy undermine the science behind climate change. The basic science behind increasing CO2 (and other gasses) and heating of the atmosphere is solid.

Myself, I'm firmly on the side of reducing consumption. I won't claim my lifestyle is carbon neutral, because it isn't. However, last time I looked at the figures, I was way below the UK average carbon footprint.