Over three in four Japanese interested in home power generation

By Ken Y-N ( August 10, 2012 at 01:49) ? Filed under Politics, Polls, Society

With the Japanese government?s energy policy in the public consultation phase, this survey from the curiously-named Cyber Casting and PR into energy awareness gives a snapshot of opinions on energy issues.

Demographics

Between the 25th and 29th of June and the 16th and 18th of July, 1,032 members of the Cyber Casting and PR online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. All those who took part were between 20 and 59 years of age, but no further breakdown by age or sex was given, nor why or how the survey was split over two periods.

I?ll note that Q2 is a badly worded question that leads the respondant to select some degree of worry.

As someone who sees nuclear as a necessary evil these days, and more importantly as someone who (in my own estimation) listens with an open mind to news from Fukushima, I accept that more people have died already from the stress of evacuation that will ever die from cancer caused by the radiation leaks, yet due to incompetence and arrogance from the government and scientic spokespeople, the message does not get through. The latest figure I have heard is that based on studies in Chernobyl, those who evacuated and didn?t return home have worse health prognoses when mental health-related issues are taken into consideration, compared to those that didn?t leave or evacuated but shortly returned.

Oh, and don?t get me started on how 0% nuclear means almost-certain failure to meet Kyoto Protocol targets.

Research results

Q1: Since the Fukushima nuclear accident, which of the following have you felt? (Sample size=1,032, multiple answer)

Worries about environmental pollution	71.5%
Worries about the effects of human	69.6%
Dissatisfaction about the financial burden caused by electricity price increases, etc	54.4%
Other	11.7%
Not felt any in particular	4.8%

Q2: Do you feel worried about electricity grid presently relying on a high degree of nuclear power generation? (Sample size=1,032)

Yes, worried	45.9%
Yes, somewhat worried	28.0%
Can?t say either way	19.6%
No, not really worried	3.8%
Not worried at all	2.7%

Q3: Regarding nuclear power, which of the following energy strategies for 2030 do you support? (Sample size=1,032)

0% share (all reactors decommissioned)	49.5%
15% share (11 percentage point reduction from 2010)	36.9%
20%-25% share (maintain the same level as 2010)	13.6%

Q4: Are you interested at self-generation of power (solar panels, home gas-powered electricity generation, etc)? (Sample size=1,032)

Yes, and using it	4.8%
Yes, but not using it	72.9%
No, but using it	0.6%
No, and not using it	21.7%

Q5: What kinds of self-generation of power would you want to use, are you using? (Sample size=1,032, multiple answer, multiple answer)

Solar	70.8%
Solar and gas	33.0%
Gas	16.5%
Other	2.0%
Don?t want to use any in particular	16.2%

Q6: If you were to be buying a new home, remodelling your current, what kind of electricity supply system would you want to use? (Sample size=1,032)

Both gas and electricity	38.0%
Perhaps both gas and electricity	22.3%
Can?t say either way	21.9%
Perhaps electricity only	9.8%
Electricity only	8.0%

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