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It seems as if in all this discussion no one is thinking of Hydro
electricity.......We have many rivers that could be harnessed to
produce
power.

Hydro-generated electricity has been produced in Scotland and
Wales
for decades. Both supply it to England via the national grid. From
high
dams not rivers btw..you wouldn't generate much power from summer
water-levels and flowrates in many UK rivers.

In Canada the government has its long term plan for renewable
energy.

So does Scotland; the target is to produce 40% by sustainable
methods
by 2020. Hydro-generation already exists, onshore windfarms are
going up
everywhere, off-shore windfarms

Windfarms can contribute an almost negligible fraction of the energy
requirements of an industrialised country. Their sole purposes are to
salve our consciences and to make money for the investors.

and wave-farms are coming soon.

I will wait and see. They have been coming soon for almost as long as
fusion energy has been coming soon.

Scotland (Arran, in fact, which was the proposed first site)
rejected
Biofuel extraction from wood waste

Biofuel does not help one iota to solve the problem of the CO2 release
rate into the atmosphere. All it might do is to protect us slightly
from the vagaries of natural gas and oil supplies.

a couple of years back on grounds
that the process is highly polluting..so has Canada, iirc. On the
web
you can no doubt find the story of how the proposing company, Border
Biofuels, managed to rip off a huge govt grant, before going bust.

Par for the course in the energy game.
Remember cold fusion?

Franz