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Written by Paul Spare
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Monday, 18 August 2008 |
Dear Editor
Robin Webster, (Friends of the Earth) and Robin Oakley, (Greenpeace)
present a misleading picture in stating that Denmark generates a
quarter of its electricity from renewable sources and there is no
reason that we cannot do so too.
For long periods in January, Danish wind turbines provide no useful
power so that reserve fossil fuel plants have to be employed. As a
consequence CO2 output per capita in Denmark is about twice that of
Sweden, France and Switzerland where electricity is almost all hydro or
nuclear. Since Greenpeace objects to hydro, nuclear and coal plants, if
we followed their policies we will have increasing CO2 output as well as power cuts and more hypothermia deaths.
Paul Spare
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 03 September 2008 )
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