The first step towards carbon nuetrality
And here is my response to this article:
With all due respect to Chris Goodall and Mark Lynas, anybody with a college degree could have come up with their plan. Everybody knows that wind, solar and biomass energy sources are inherently better than fossil fuel. That’s the stuff for school textbooks. What the authors have failed is to conduct a case-specific cost-benefit analysis of the transition. They have failed to test if their assumptions are valid and economically or otherwise viable. The authors themselves acknowledge that they have not been on the ground in the Maldives to test out the coral limestone and sandstone foundations that are assumed would cut costs. Public available information on subjects like this in the Maldives is inadequate and incomplete to be considered as primary sources for such a draft, because such information is not based on any credible research or data collection. On the other hand, most government officials don’t know what they are talking about on issues like this because they are misinformed and they have never travelled to the islands themselves to double check their facts and assumptions.
Before we go any further with this plan and make financial commitments, I urge Chris Goodall and Mark Lynas to come to the Maldives and get their hands dirty. Putting together a text-book esque plan is easy. What is hard is making sure it works.
What do you guys think?
well the most striking thing was using coconut husk as biomass fuel. Frankly anyone who has been in the islands will know the husks will not even suffice the amount of heat energy needed for even cooking alone in an island.
ReplyDeleteI think we have a long way to go
http://iddu.blogspot.com/2009/04/carbon-neutral-dream.html