If all our energy came from the sun, the wind and the waves it would be truly renewable, endless and so plentiful we could use as much as we want. And we could get that energy to people around the world. It would create a better way of living.
Some people say that nuclear power is part of the solution or clean coal where you also capture the carbon emissions and store them before they reach the atmosphere. Others are talking about a renewable Supergrid piping energy from the desert to your front door.
And others see climate change as the single chance to democratise energy by putting each household in control with micro-generation. You could produce as much as you need and the excess can be sent to the grid. It would put us in control. It would be an energy revolution, or as Bianca Jagger says ‘a Copernican Revolution’. What do you think?
Tim Boyd and Alex Michaelis, founders of Michaelis Boyd Associates, a firm of architects, discuss here creating aesthetically beautiful carbon neutral buildings such as homes and restaurants and 'Energy Island', a single floating structure bringing together a number of renewable energy conversion systems to maximise energy production
