Western Morning News

Nothing to do with man’s inventions

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I HOPE this week the Anton

Coaker column will explain how the idea of giving solar panels and batteries to every household by

“the tedious Musk bloke” would work with today’s rabbit hutches, with front doors opening straight on to the street, back gardens as big as a pocket handkerchi­ef, and roof spaces big enough for only four panels. Plus the million and a half households in tower blocks. Not a well thought-out plan.

Adding to the overcast skies of the last three months, which are the enemy of solar panels, we also have the silent sentinels of failure, sometimes referred to as wind turbines. What is there every day, no matter what the weather? Tidal movement. Are we harnessing that? Not particular­ly.

It should also be remembered that climate change is big business. It is interestin­g to note that in the Atlantic period, 5,000BC, temperatur­es were on average three degrees C higher than today and in 4,000BC Lake Chad was 30 to 40 metres higher than it is today. All of that had nothing to do with man and his inventions.

Ben Roberts Tiverton, Devon

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