Sunday, January 3, 2010

A couple of worthwhile links

I've just finished reading this book, Energise! by Prof James Woudhuysen and Joe Kaplinsky. Although it's mostly about innovation in energy production and distribution (nuclear, wind, solar etc), it also briefly mentions geoengineering in positive terms. The general tone of the book is about human-centric development of larger-scale and more-efficients ways of generating power, and criticises much of the blind following of tenets like 'sustainability' and the so-called 'precautionary principle'.

I tend to concur with most of its findings, especially the notion that we are looking at the problem of climate change in the wrong way. Rather than asking 'what policies and behavioural changes can reduce energy consumption and hence CO2 emissions?' we should be asking 'what technological innovations can enable us to continue and extend current energy consumption and human behaviour, while also reducing emissions of CO2?'

Another useful article on Geoengineering is here

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