Professor Alan Smeaton:

I will go back to a previous comment. The projections are based on a straight-line increase, or even a curve-up increase in energy demands, but already we are seeing in research examples where it is deflected down, and I hope it will pivot down. I will not say it is a problem that will disappear but I expect it to be less demanding than current projections. It is still a large consumption of resources, not only of electricity but also of water as Deputy Murphy mentioned, and it is not going to go away. We are going to have to pay for it in some sense but the penalty will not be as steep as what many people believe.