Comments on: Cow power! http://oecdinsights.org/2012/10/15/cow-power/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cow-power Tue, 21 May 2013 15:20:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Raffaele Trapasso http://oecdinsights.org/2012/10/15/cow-power/#comment-2110 Raffaele Trapasso Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:46:05 +0000 http://oecdinsights.org/?p=4929#comment-2110 Dear Philippe,
Many governments support RE deployment but not smart grids. This impinges upon the efficiency of the energy system as a whole and reduces the share of RE that grids can host.
Conventional energy, however, is still providing base-load in most energy systems and natural gas is now relatively cheap…

There is still lot to do with energy efficiency and integration of RE and conventional sources of energy.
Best
Rafaelle Trapasso

]]> By: Philip Hodkinson http://oecdinsights.org/2012/10/15/cow-power/#comment-2065 Philip Hodkinson Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:36:21 +0000 http://oecdinsights.org/?p=4929#comment-2065 Millions are being poured into conventional power production programmes and in the short term this may be necessary.
To convert every houshold to producing its own power, via wind, solar or geo heat, cow, or any other micro level process, would be far more cost effective done over say a five-year programme. sustainability being the pay back as most of the hardware for these systems is guaranteed for at least 25 years.
If you look at it from the cost of planning, attaining land, building, operating and decommissioning ONE nuclear power station, over a say 50 year period…
Discuss?

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