I have said this before, why on earth is there not a law that says ANY new housing or factories or any buildings built, are built with Solar panels, battery storage and rain water reclaim to flush the toilets?
Again all you hear is expense…well what happened with the more you make the cheaper it becomes? If as they want there are to be hundreds of thousands if not millions of new homes being built, then surely that would help bring down the prices.
There was a programme on TV last week that showed one house builder who has changed the design of their houses and now automatically fit solar panels and batteries as standard along with the insulation required. That is one builder who is willing to make the changes without having to be forced to by legislation. So, why can’t the others do the same?
I know many do not see solar as the silver bullit but even if it allows houses to reduce their dependance on the grid by 25-30% given the amount of houses, factories, shops, municiple buildings, heck all buildings, that is a lot of pressure taken off the national grid.
As for there are nowhere near as many people on the planet as say 300 years or more ago…true, but then those people were not making plastics and many other sorts of stuff that was harming the environment either. Most of their stuff was made with material that degraded into the environment, which is why archeologists do not find that much. In 300 years time if an archeologist puts a shovel into the ground they will find absolutely tons of s**t.