I would imagine that a wind generator small enough to fit on a streetlamp
would barely generate enough power to illuminate the lamp itself.
Can you imagine every streetlamp with a generator on top? How many would
take off? How many would fall over? How would residents sleep with the
cacophony of noise? Who would maintain them? In spells of calm, would there
be no street lighting? (Actually, I quite like the idea of no street
lighting...less light pollution.)
I really think this panic is going way over the top. We are looking at
shades of farce!

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BlueLightning wrote:
Here's a realplayer clip (about 10 mins) Dr Gray at the Governers
Hurricane Conference 2006

http://www.hurricanecity.com/ram/gray2006.ram

In Summery, he thinks Global Warming has been whipped up into a frenzy
by the media, with a lot of fear-mongering going on.

He admits that some warming has occured. He thinks it's part of a
natural cycle, and the Earth will cool again within the next 20 years

He might be right, although 20 years seems rather a short timescale for
a global phenomenon to reverse the cycle. And even if it did happen, I
assume he means 'start to cool' within 20 years. However, what happens
if the warming effect overpowers the cooling one?

Whoever is right, there are going to be some areas that will be
affected by more severe conditions, and arguing or waiting to
prove/disprove someones theories is not going to help them.

What I dont understand is that after all these years of knowing the
problems associated with fossil fuel emissions and shortages, most
governments have continually dragged their feet over alternatives.
Surely, a few million in research and a decent home wind generator
could have been produced quite cheaply by now, likewise affordable
photo-voltaic roof tiles.

Someone seems to have designed an inner city wind generator, but stuck
it on a stand-alone pole! Why? We have millions of metal poles in this
country, they are called street lamps, and it is not rocket science to
design wind generators that fix onto them - surely? There are between
50 and 70 per mile on many lit sections of motorway, and even if they
did not contribute much to the national grid, they would be a start.

I sometimes wonder if it is in the interests of those in political
power, to have the world continue to rely on oil. Could this be because
it is traded in dollars, and any drop in its importance would see the
collapse of the US economy?