Business Secretary John Hutton announced on today’s BBC Politics Show that the UK would be solving its CO2 problems by building off shore wind farms all round the coastline of the UK. Now, anyone who has either been to the UK coast, or has seen the Open University’s series Coast, will know that the UK has some of the most beautiful coastline anywhere. To plaster these travesties of taste around the place may impress a bunch of green nuts, but I doubt the tourism or fishing industries will be jumping for joy.

Apparently the government’s plan is to have all UK homes powered by these things by 2020. I’d imagine that in order to guarantee suitable airflow to keep them turning all year round, they are going to move the Houses of Parliament offshore as well.

This is the wrong strategy.

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