Here at Heresy we get a bit despairing at what we're doing to the Earth, and it's an easy trap to fall into - to push the bad points to try and convince people to help change things.
However, we've been seeing a lot of good news lately from one of our favourite sites - Ecogeek.org - and we thought we'd change our tack from being a bit despairing to one of hope.
The more time that passes, and the more stories I read, the more I become hopeful that humans will innovate their way out of potential destruction.
The first link is a story about a solar prject in California, a state that can be mind-boggingly progressive sometimes. I personally sometimes have a view of America being a country of gus guzzling consumption monsters, but paradoxically, they can do some amazing things. In California, when they make a decision to do something, boy do they do it.
This project will install 1.2GigaWatts (standard coal station: 500MW, that's 500 Million Watts) of solar power in California.
Amazing stuff.
The second story details a company installing an offshore wind power array off Scotland - 1GigW, scaling up to 3-5GW. That is a lot of renewable power. These wind turbines will be located on offshore oil rigs - a nice innovation; taking Big Oil's offshore rig engineering expertise and combining with a wind power company.
Awesome!
tim, heresy head worrier.
However, we've been seeing a lot of good news lately from one of our favourite sites - Ecogeek.org - and we thought we'd change our tack from being a bit despairing to one of hope.
The more time that passes, and the more stories I read, the more I become hopeful that humans will innovate their way out of potential destruction.
The first link is a story about a solar prject in California, a state that can be mind-boggingly progressive sometimes. I personally sometimes have a view of America being a country of gus guzzling consumption monsters, but paradoxically, they can do some amazing things. In California, when they make a decision to do something, boy do they do it.
This project will install 1.2GigaWatts (standard coal station: 500MW, that's 500 Million Watts) of solar power in California.
Amazing stuff.
The second story details a company installing an offshore wind power array off Scotland - 1GigW, scaling up to 3-5GW. That is a lot of renewable power. These wind turbines will be located on offshore oil rigs - a nice innovation; taking Big Oil's offshore rig engineering expertise and combining with a wind power company.
Awesome!
tim, heresy head worrier.
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