Woolly Jumpers

Tweet Clearly her appointment as Tory Environment spokesperson is causing our local AM to start to think about energy saving initiatives. In her column in this week's 'Carmarthen Journal', she refers to her 'woolly jumper' theory. I was expecting something about sheep at that point, but it was not to be…

She quotes the example of a London householder who managed to cut his energy bills by 45% by a series of actions, the most important of which seems to have been donning a woolly jumper. Ms Burns goes on to suggest that we should all start thinking about our own 'woolly jumper' tactics to save energy.

I've got a good idea for her. Instead of building a CCGT power station at Angle, and another over the Haven at Milford Haven, why not build a series of smaller CHP power stations? These would extract twice the energy value from the same volume of gas, and therefore both extend the life of gas reserves and halve the volume of emissions per usable unit of energy.

Apparently, however, she considers wasting half of that energy to be a particularly good idea, and has given unqualified support to the proposal. Mustn't interfere with the right of big business to make money, whatever the environmental consequences.