Offshore energy report could dash defeatist arguments against the rocks

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2010/may/20/offshore-renewables-pirc-report

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2010/may/20/offshore-renewables-pirc-report

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However often you point them to papers showing how a European supergrid, which could one day stretch from Iceland to North Africa, allows us to balance renewable resources against each other, ensuring constant supplies; however often you explain the potential of smart appliances, a smart grid and new energy storage technologies, they just clamp their fingers in their ears and shout: "No, no, no!"

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But even the defeatists might be swayed by some of the findings of the Offshore Valuation report, just published by the Public Interest Research Centre (Pirc). It's the first time anyone has tried to work out how much electricity could be produced by offshore renewables in the UK, and the results are fascinating.

It examines only existing technologies – wind turbines with both fixed and floating foundations, wave machines, tidal range and tidal stream devices – and the contribution they can make by 2050.

How come every little shithead who hands out this oblivious consumerist delusional optimism says "by 2050?"

"Don't worry," they whine like 4th graders - although the people who will suffer the most for this happy talk are still waiting to get into the 4th grade - "just consume like hell, because someday it will be all better."

They were handing out the same shit in 1970, and of course, many of the horseshit handlers from that year are now dead and things are worse than ever.

Climate change is now. The Gulf is destroyed now. The mountaintops are being removed now.

And what do we have for it? People who paste little oblivious links, disconnected with what is happening now, from dumb websites and try to pass it off as thinking.

It's not thinking. It's regurgitating and chanting. Why not stick to posting links to the "we'll all die without oil" website?