Forgive the horrible historical reference in the title— and I mean no disrespect to the UK— but I couldn't help but instill a bit of bad humor in my weekly forays into the blogging world. Anyways, back to the mother ship here.

The UK's coastal areas could see a major upgrade in renewable energy production. Though the proposals are just, well, proposals at this juncture, the UK government is serious about bolstering it's wind power production by 2020. Offshore wind farms could begin dotting the landscape like seashells by the seashore, with an estimated 33 GW of wind energy powering nearly 25 million homes.

The move is bold. It's plausible, considering that there are ample wind resources on UK shorelines, and government plans to target a 20 percent renewable energy production by 2020 means that they could well be on their way to setting the global bar for wind power.