A radical departure from the greener-than-thou New Scientist magazine. It reports on a new paper by Alex Kleidon of the Max Planck Institute which states that, in order to gain the equivalent energy from wind and wave that we do from fossil fuels, we would have to deplete the atmosphere of energy to the extent that usable portion would decrease steadily- a kind of 'diminishing returns'. Moreover, the amount of free energy converted into waste heat would create a atmospheric warming equivalent to doubling atmospheric CO2. So far, so scientific, but apparently the biomass has been hitting the fan at the NS offices, for today the title of the article has been changed, and - but read the new version for yourself:
So now we must all sit back while various panic-stricken greenies try to refute the reasoning or (more likely) smear the author. Watch this space.
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