“ I am doing a masters and need to gain market research for a new product. My product is wireless sensors for domestic usage. I was wondering would people be able to do this survey for my research? Should take 5 – 10 mins max and is not specifically limited to just home owners (but […]
We've been asked to have a look digester technology to treat the effluent from a palm oil mill
http://tx1.fcomet.com/~claverto/cms/download/310/ http://tx1.fcomet.com/~claverto/cms/business-services/Novero-digester-technology.html We‘ve been asked to have a quick look at this technology for a dig ester to treat the effluent from a palm oil mill and then recovering the gas to run a boiler or potentially getting a generator to produce electricity. There would also be revenue from O&M and carbon credits. One of the […]
B and Q is believed to have withdrawn its home wind turbines from sale:
B and Q is believed to have withdrawn its home wind turbines from sale: B&Q to invest in micro wind study – this news comes as the company has just pulled the Windsave brand of micro wind turbines from its shelves after last month’s report on trials by consultancy Encraft (Warwick Wind Trials – the […]
UK National Grid talking about wind in the future, when there is a high penetration
Slide 14 of the presentation labelled future system operation at : http://www.nationalgrid.com/uk/Electricity/Balancing/operationalforum/2009/ – presented to all and sundry at the Operational Forum (open to all comers) by National Grid at the Ardencote Manor 2 weeks ago, may interest. The following three slides after that are also interesting, as […]
Claverton has been asked to comment on the attached submission from the REA to government
please put any comments, as a comment, and or send to John Baldwin ASAP. There are only hours in which to make a submission. The energy dimension to A sustainable recovery pathway Overview – a Green New Energy Deal The pathway to recovery from this economic downturn must take us in a new direction, not […]
Critique of Carbon Trust Report – Offshore Wind Power
Critique of the Carbon Trust Report Offshore Wind Power: big challenge, big opportunity Maximising the environmental, economic and security benefit
Pumping Power calculator – what power is needed to pump seawater to the middle of the Gobi Desert for desalination in the SeaWater Greenhouse? – answer – not a lot
The spread sheet for calculating this, kindly provided by Wessex Water, one of the UK’s leading water supply companies, is available here: This spread sheet enables you to calculate power needed to pump water any distance through any height: http://tx1.fcomet.com/~claverto/cms/?dl_name=Pipe_Headloss__Power_calculator.xls You can see that in fact, compared to national energy consumptions, […]
Senior Energy Analyst reports on biochar as economic method of CCS
Hi Claverton,
Just read this on bio-char.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/67843ec0-020b-11de-8199-000077b07658.html.
Sound’s good to me. At £9/tonne this seems a sizeable contribution to GHG
reduction at a carbon price we already have in the EU cap and trade system.
I think the silver buckshot Al Gore cites will have many such low tech, low
cost solutions. For me making charcoal is an intuitively correct solution
as it seems to be a simple way of compressing the natural carbon capture
cycle that can be done at low capital costs and with lots of other benefits
as well.
Rgds
M
EcoTrack: project monitoring for the carbon market
Introducing EcoTrack
Project monitoring is often haphazard and time-consuming. Furthermore, results from monitoring do not always lead to improvement and learning. Now EcoTrack makes project results transparent and easy to use.
EcoTrack is a new monitoring system for sustainable energy and household energy projects. It is highly reliable, networked, and results-based. Eco, a private company based in the UK, has developed EcoTrack to systematize the monitoring process, provide timely data, and enhance reporting to funders and other project stakeholders. EcoTrack allows users to track the progress of activities, outputs, outcomes and objectives against performance indicators. It therefore improves the quality of both monitoring and management.
"UK Energy Risks – Uncertain but not Unimaginable" – Global Energy Advisory
On the 23rd of February it was reported that one of the large six utility companies in the UK lost £172.5mn, in just three months, by trading a gas position. This loss could have been against a background of relatively low gas price volatility; presumably this “increase in wholesale cost” will now be passed on to end consumers? Who trades and who pays? Who invests and who pays?
The new Energy & Climate Change Committee is today taking oral evidence from the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Rt Hon Edward Miliband MP, in the House of Commons in London. The independent Global Energy Advisory White Paper entitled: Investment Failure, Fails Customers, was circulated to the Committee earlier this week.
The paper discusses the potential risks to UK energy security which are well known within the Industry. It also asks pertinent questions regarding the costs and consequences of the energy investment/trading decisions being taken at the current time.
This discussion will be continued at the Global Energy/Advisory Super Derivatives Seminar in London on March 5th – see below for full details.