Scotland at the Head of European Greenvision

Alex Sayre

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2/10/09

By 2020 Scotland’s government plans to have 50% of its energy drawn from renewable resources such as wind and solar energy farms. Disagreeing with London in using nuclear power to draw energy sources in the future Scotland again fights them in how to power green energy.

Scotland recently approved their third largest wind farm to be built which will power over 100,000 homes. Also even more recent the WWF organization has pushed and has finally received the go ahead to allow homes in Scotland to have household solar panels under certain restrictions. This allows for even more power saving switching from natural gases to this green safe plan. The former World Wildlife Fund has increased its interests to include the saving of the entire environment including this energy product.

The Goal of Scotland is to be at the head of burgeoning European environmentally healthy energy production. Many other plans are in place to allow the production of smaller wind turbines for domestic use as well as air source heat pumps.

The goal of America should be along these lines (and it is) but with the complexities of the amount of people (I don’t think Scotland is even close to how large America is) and how great our need for “stuff” is this sort of plan would take much longer. I think though that compared to Scotland we are more along the lines of the British in using nuclear power. The waste is terrible and is just being stored like the pages of recipes in cookbooks in the average college student’s cupboard: never to be opened again. That was a really long metaphor. Using this amount of money to convert the production of power is awesome and is a great example to model countries after.

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