Note from Professor Lowe, All The following is taken from J.E Gordon’s book, Structures, or why things don’t fall down. I can’t help thinking it has lessons for globalisation. I particularly like the last sentence, which has an unintended application to politics and economics and to many complex systems. “A much better-known accident of this […]
CHANCELLOR RECEIVES PROPOSAL FOR RESOLUTION OF REPETITIVE BOOM AND BUST
I am writing this open letter to you on behalf of the Coalition for Economic Justice (CEJ). In response to the seriousness of the current economic crisis a number of think tanks, charities and pressure groups across the political spectrum recently decided to join forces as the CEJ. We propose the introduction of an annual Land Value Tax (LVT) to replace or reduce existing taxes on enterprise and labour in order to prevent future economic crises and alleviate the current one. The resolution below, passed at our first meeting sets out our broad position. (Set out at the foot of this letter is a list of the organisations concerned.)
Renewables East event helps small and medium sized companies in the East of England and the East Midlands access funding and support for green energy and low carbon technology
Simon Sherrington is organizing a free event on behalf of Renewables East. It is designed to help small and medium sized companies in the East of England and the East Midlands access funding and support to develop their early stage green energy and low carbon technology and service ideas. It is open to anyone meeting Renewables […]
Hydrogen pipeline transmission issues
A paper from Calin Cormos and Dr. Fred Starr. It points out that one of the main problems with hydrogen is transmitting it over long distances in pipelines. As such it implies that the outlet pressure from a ossification plant will have to be at least 70 bar, and because of the pressure drop and […]
"Carbon footprints of various sources of heat – biomass combustion and CHPDH comes out lowest " – William Orchard.
The analysis indicates that burning biomass in large scale CHP has significant benefits compared to Anaerobic digestion of biomass and then burning the gas in CHP or in boilers. The table follows the convention of treating the growing of biomass and the CO2 it absorbs as one process and then the use of biomass as […]
"Direct Connect – a Flight to Simplicity?" – Chris Cook – Financial Expert
John Gilmore famously said that; “The Internet interprets Censorship as Damage and routes around it” Perhaps one of the key events in the development of the Internet age was the invention by a 19 year old of direct on-line music sharing – Napster – which destroyed for good the existing business model of the global […]
BBC talks about Dynamic Demand (smart fridges) and Smart Metering.
BBC programme “You and Yours” discussed the issues in a pretty comprehensive and well researched manner.. A representative from David Hirst’s (A Claverton Member) RLTek company described how the frequency sensitive device, fitted to fridges, which are now being sold in UK can help the grid. Also talked to the Opposition spokesman on energy about Smart […]
"How will mandatory smart metering affect you?" Howard Stark – MD Stark Systems
New licence conditions for the supply of electricity and gas will be introduced on April 6 this year. These new conditions are an essential building block in the Government’s carbon reduction programme for the UK. Under these changes, all Profile Class 5-8 electricity meters, and all metered gas consuming over 732,000 kWh a year, must […]
THE FUTURE OF ELECTRICITY: LIBERALISATION, LONG DISTANCE TRANSMISSION, HVDC AND SUPERGRIDS
Polly Higgins 28.07.08 ELECTRICITY & TRANSMISSION IN EUROPE AND BEYOND Russia is running out of gas, oil is peaking globally, and energy prices are escalating. The most recent climate change science from NASA tells us that we must stabilise our carbon dioxide emissions at 350 parts per million, a figure we have already overshot with […]
Prof Klaus Illum talks about atmospheric C02 levels and climate change
From – Klaus Illum3 February 2009 The time scales of the graphs above and below differ by a factor 1,000. The composition of the atmosphere (H2O, NH3, N2O, CH4, O2, …..) has changed during the last hundreds of millions of years. During the last hundred thousands of years the CO2 concentration has fluctuated at a […]