Smart Idea, Dumb Idea

 

Here’s a smart energy idea – build wind turbines at or close to the point of demand for electricity (‘distributed generation’), utilizing brownfield sites:

“Wind turbines will increasingly be built in urban and industrial areas as power firms seek to avoid the planning problems that have blighted some rural generating schemes…”

Here’s a dumb energy idea – fight climate change by chopping down forests to grow biofuel crops:

“Increasing production of biofuels to combat climate change will release between two and nine times more carbon gases over the next 30 years than fossil fuels…”

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