Gordon,
Those 15000 houses could be zero carbon or even carbon positive using
existing technology. They could capture rainwater and recycle wastewater
so that the running costs would be practically zero. They could all have
large cellars to maximise the footprint.
But they probably wont, they will be built as cheaply as possible
missing a great opportunity.
The RSPB who are greatly concerned about climate change, have built
their own windmill at their HQ so it looks like the bird death rates are
manageable.
Roger
On 12/11/15 17:52, Gordon Scott wrote:
> Hi Brad,
>
> On Thu, 2015-11-12 at 16:52 +0000, Brad Rogers wrote:
>> the NIMBY brigade.
> Don't get me started :-)
>
> I can't now remember who it was, who said "Sure I worry about my back
> yard ... nobody else is going worry about it!"
>
> It's notable that NIMBYs are always other people objecting to things in
> _their_ back yard, that generally we'd(*) rather not have in our own
> back yard. ((*) Same me/you disclaimer, of course).
>
> There's been talk recently of how many millions more homes we need to
> build for our inexorably rising population, and how many hundreds of
> thousands of additional builders, carpenters, plumbers, electricians and
> so on we'll need to allow us to build them, which is one argument why we
> need to allow immigration. I haven't yet heard how many houses we need
> to build to house the builders etc., ... and their families.
>
> I'm not in any way anti renewables, though I think they should perhaps
> focus a little more on tidal stream, which is reliably 24/7 around our
> coast, than the more fickle forms like wind, wave and solar; though even
> with the fickle forms hydrogen production may eventually smooth out the
> bumps in electricity generation.
>
> FWIW, I didn't myself have much of an issue with Navitus Bay, though I
> do find sailing near wind farms in fog a bit scary. Still, at least
> wind farms don't run you down at 20kts :-) I have no idea of the
> veracity of the view that they kill birds and bats.
>
> BTW, there's a plan outline near me to build a, frankly staggering,
> fifteen thousand homes on green land. Curiously, there are thousands of
> NIMBYs in the area. Actually, it looks like it won't affect me much as
> it's "over he fence" rather than "in my yard", but I'm likely to be
> supporting those NIMBYs.
>
> Meanwhile I'd quite like to downsize, but I'm wondering if I can
> _afford_ to, when smaller houses are no cheaper and I have to pay legal
> fees, estate agent fees, removal costs and stamp duty. There are
> hundreds of thousands of us thinking much the same. There's housing
> available if we join up the thinking properly.
>
> Oh dear. I did warn you :-/
>
> Gordon.
>
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