Dump The ‘Big Six’: Bye Bye Cooling Towers
From the energy company with a difference, Ecotricity, comes a video urging the UK energy companies to depart from traditional energy production and move toward cleaner forms of power (wind, solar, wave and green gas). The video shows a range of large cooling towers, that blemish our landscapes and churn toxic gas into the atmosphere, being demolished in an effort to directly tackle the ‘Big Six’ UK energy production companies.
People are fed up with the unethical pricing, complex tariffs, awful customer service and the dire lack of investment in new sources of green energy.
It’s become quite unbearable, self evidently. Even the government are calling on people to leave the Big Six.
The video has over 250,000 views in a few days, a great sign, but personally the video did little for me besides make me dig deeper and find the information about the ‘Big Six‘. However, I suppose this was entirely the point of it. By adding personalities to the collapsing cooling towers, and giving none to the replacement wind turbines, I felt a little sorrow creep in when I saw them weeping themselves into a broken state. Did you feel the same?
Twitter: @ecotricity // Homepage: ecotricity.co.uk
The top comment on YouTube:
1. Nuclear power plants do not burn fossil fuel.
2. Nuclear power plants do not release CO2 into the atmosphere. They release water vapour.
3. Nuclear waste is easily safely disposed of.
Nuclear power is one of the ways we will rid ourselves of our fossil fuel addiction. They don’t belong everywhere like on the coast of Japan or Iceland (which was completely insane), but when you realize for how long and how widely it has been used, it really is quite safe in comparison with anything else.
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