More Greenunacy

Sep 05, 2010 5 Replies

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Matty F saying something like:

It's certainly got windbags.

At least one person has pointed out that half a million cyclists in Copenhagen could generate enough electricity to save the fossil fuel used by... wait for it... SIX average Danes.

Andy

I spent about 15 years working for Danish companies. The conclusion I draw is that they are a naition of f*****ts.

The ratio of cyclists to folks is not all surprising.

When you really do the sums you'll see the ratios for lots of other ECO-daft things are similar. Prof. Mackay's excellent book all available foc shows this and more:

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a look. Look at the sums. Get a real sense of what makes sense and what doesn't

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