"...In the coming century, as the industrialised world becomes more intense, more competitive and claustrophobic, the integrity of our green spaces will have a direct bearing on our standing internationally. Nature takes time. As wind technology itself attests, new, hitherto unthinkable technological solutions to problems pop up in every sector of human endeavour, from sculpture to dermatology, at a speed that has no parallel in human history. A far less intrusive Cook Strait tidal-energy proposal, technologically viable from 2008, may alone produce twice New Zealand’s present total energy consumption..." Richard Reeve: "Dont Trust Power — Why the wind factories are a rip-off"