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\"let<\/a>Let there be light is not only God’s command in Genesis 1v3 but also a TEARFUND<\/a> campaign to get the UK government to fund small scale renewables and batteries in the developing world.\u00a0 Its worth reminding ourselves as we read this of how much we take electricity and natural gas for granted.\u00a0 Millions do without and rely on paraffin lamps etc.\u00a0 The number of people\u00a0without access to electricity as the graph shows is falling fast.\u00a0 Its still over a billion people though.<\/p>\n

There are two things people need in the tropics heat for cooking and electricity.\u00a0 Great strides have been made with low cost stoves and biogas to cook on.\u00a0 These are used by millions in the developing world cutting both smoke and deforestation.\u00a0 They and electricity provision are a classic market failure.\u00a0 There is nothing in it for private companies to provide millions with a solar panel or two and some lithium batteries, much less gas.\u00a0 (There are parts of Edinburgh not on mains gas due to the people who live there being too poor to make it worthwhile).\u00a0 However, doing so make people safer allows children’s education to go after dark and stimulates small businesses.\u00a0 Its a great idea but only governments can do it.\u00a0 Let there be light.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let there be light is not only God’s command in Genesis 1v3 but also a TEARFUND campaign to get the UK government to fund small scale renewables and batteries in the developing world.\u00a0 Its worth reminding ourselves as we read … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,114,15,4,1],"tags":[61,177],"class_list":["post-7595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-community-energy","category-practical-low-carbon-living","category-renewables","category-uncategorized","tag-renewable-energy","tag-solar"],"yoast_head":"\nlet there be light - The oil lamp - shining God's light on peak oil<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7595\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7595\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7595\",\"name\":\"let there be light - 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