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| While global warming is not halting as the biggest players are unable to agree to do anything about it, the last few months have seen optimistic highlights for clean energy production - in small societies. Scotland, Costa Rica, Denmark and El Hierro have taken the dual challenge for energy independence and co2 neutrality seriously, and they have impressive statistics to show for it. www.heraldscotland.com/news/14395942.display/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2...-climate-changehttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/201...ctricity-demandhttp://www.outsideonline.com/1803261/first...fficient-islandNow, it could be argued that these smaller societies also don't have the kind of energy intensive industrial sectors that you'd find in some other countries. And the energy demand of these industries really is massive compared to the amounts used by households and agriculture. But being small and less industrial also means that you have less income to invest in (let alone produce) advanced energy capacity. And, conversely, that the financial drain and dependence that their energy consumption places on these societies is comparatively less severe. I see that my country (the Netherlands) was at an underwhelming 5,6% of clean energy production in 2014 (last available statistic), and therefore probably not even approaching the lowly 14% target for 2020. Different choices, let's say... |
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