The island of Eigg gets mains electricity for the first time
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Investment in wind, solar and hydroelectric has brought mains electricity to the 87 inhabitants of the Hebridian island of Eigg. The investment of £1.6 million - equivalent to £18,391 capital outlay per person - means that residents no longer have to run diesel generators when they need power. You can read the BBC article here, and you can look at the comments at the bottom to see how naive people are about the capital investment in public infrastructure that gives mainland residents their power, sewage, water, communications, and roads. And isn’t £18,000 about the price that many households pay for a car - or even a second car? And that doesn’t give you a lifetime of clean energy.
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