{"id":2700,"date":"2009-10-02T17:50:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T17:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2009-10-02T17:50:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T17:50:51","slug":"sustainable-energy-and-landscape-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/sustainable-energy-and-landscape-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable energy, landscape architecture and the carbon cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2702\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/02\/sustainable-energy-and-landscape-architecture\/fullscreen-capture-01102009-1227521\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2776\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2776\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/02\/sustainable-energy-and-landscape-architecture\/fullscreen-capture-02102009-195406\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2776\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2776\" title=\"David MacKay's Plan M for the UK's future energy supply\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fullscreen-capture-02102009-195406.jpg\" alt=\"The landscape architecture should consider the implications for the landscape of supplying the UK's energy demand when the oil runs out\" width=\"775\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fullscreen-capture-02102009-195406.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fullscreen-capture-02102009-195406-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fullscreen-capture-02102009-195406-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fullscreen-capture-02102009-195406-624x402.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The landscape architecture should consider the implications for the landscape of supplying the UK&#39;s energy demand when the oil runs out (image from the 10-page Synopsis, reproduced courtesy David Mackay)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So far as I know, there is only one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.withouthotair.com\/\">excellent book on Sustainable Energy<\/a>. It is available free and the author, David MacKay, has become a government advisor. Everyone should read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.withouthotair.com\/synopsis10.pdf\">10-page synopsis<\/a>. My question is this: how will solar power affect the landscape and what can landscape architects do to help the shift to sustainable energy? Solar, Clean Coal, Nuclear, Tide, Wave, Hydro, Waste, Pumped Heat, Wood, Biofuel, Wind.<\/p>\n<p>The European average for energy use is 125 kWh\/day.\u00a0 Covering the windiest 10% of Britain with onshore windfarms would yield 20 kWh\/ day per person; covering every south-facing roof with solar water-heating panels would capture 13 kWh\/day per person; wave machines intercepting Atlantic waves over 500 km of coastline would provide 4 kWh per day per person.<\/p>\n<p>Do landscape architects have anything to say about the layout of <a href=\"http:\/\/ceramics.org\/ceramictechtoday\/energy-environment\/giant-solar-farms-in-the-works-in-china-india-and-us\/\">giant solar farms<\/a>? David MacKay believes they are the most promising solution in the longer term. And what about <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/wales\/north_west\/7762242.stm\">giant wind farms<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far as I know, there is only one excellent book on Sustainable Energy. It is available free and the author, David MacKay, has become a government advisor. Everyone should read the 10-page synopsis. My question is this: how will solar power affect the landscape and what can landscape architects do to help the shift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,16,24,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}