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Chapter 7Renewable energy

I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fiffeen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented affer you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Douglas AdamsThe Salmon of Doubt, Harmony Books, New York, 2002

This chapter assesses the energy and CO₂e savings that renewable (and low carbon) energy systems can make in ...