Serious Change Blog

A few months ago I started a new Serious Change project. The aim of the project was to write good responses to online newspaper and blog posts about the UK energy system.

Well, after a few months of online meetings, and posting comments, we got pretty good at responding. We even started to see common arguments for not investing public funds in our energy system. So, the obvious thing to do is to list these common arguments and write our best reponses (google doc). Anyone who would like to help write reponses is most welcome to write on that google doc — and if you would like to discuss any aspect of this project then just email lisa at seriouschange dot org dot uk.

The good thing about this exercise is that the next time we come across one of these common arguments, we can save ourselves some work and just refer to our reponse here — and so can you!

Here is my three sentence summary of David MacKay’s book

Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

The UK can’t live off its own renewable energy with current technology.

If we make efficiency savings by electrifying transport and use different heating technology and add in some of: nuclear power, clean coal or other countries renewables, we could make many energy plans that add up to demand, without reducing our quality of life, for 2050.

This will require serious change to our current lives, and this change will be rewarding in every aspect.