Gregory Barker, the Shadow minister for climate change writing in the Sunday Times, 1st Feb, “Brown has a Power Failure” points out that unless a decision is made soon to go ahead with the London Array in the Thames Estuary, then National Grid will miss the slot allocated to upgrade the Grid in time. Apparently […]
Discussion of The Banks' right to create money (seigneurage) discussed on BBC "Today" programme
Amazingly, John Humphreys on BBC Radio’s flagship news programme “Today” had two religious leaders Tarek Al Diwany and Dr Selby, who were discussing where money came from and its relationship to religion, and how the Christian Church had historically relaxed its stance against usury. They both agreed that where we had gone wrong, was in […]
National Grid comes out for Biogas in a big way – 50% of UK gas demand
Acording to National Grid “Renewable gas has the potential to make a significant contribution to the UK’s renewable energy and carbon reduction targets for 2020. And in the longer term, with the right government policies in place, renewable gas could meet up to 50% of UK residential gas demand. Produced mainly via a process of […]
Myth of technical un-feasibility of complex multi-terminal HVDC and ideological barriers to inter-country power exchanges – Czisch
From Dr Gregor Czisch.
There are two subjects in Nigel Wakefield’s email I would like to address:
First Subject- Technical feasibility of complex multi-terminal HVDC systems:
Nigel Wakefield wrote
> One of the problems that needs addressing with HVDC is, I believe
> the problem of multi-nodal links. … However I understand that
> technology linking individual point supply into an HVDC link is
> not available yet.
Can anyone elucidate on this?
Cost of utility's (WPD) fatal imcompetence – a mere £270,000
From the wonderful Electrical Review Column – Gossage “The late Professor Roland Levinsky was a pioneering immunologist, and vice-chancellor of the University of Plymouth. He died because, in atrocious weather conditions, he walked into a live 11,000 volt power cable left dangling across a footpath near Wembury, Devon. It was not as if the cable […]
Labour Peer allegedly boasted he took money to push smart metering legislation
According to various news outlets today, Lord Truscott, one of the “Peers for Laws” had boasted that he had initiated amendments to legislation forcing the installation of smart meters. This may be a good thing I hear you say. But basically it is a wheeze to allow the electricity companies to sack their meter readers […]
Use of bio char as a carbon sequestration method
More evidence that bio char is a good wheeze……… Abstract Abrupt Climate Change (ACC – NAS, 2001) is an issue that ‘haunts the climate change problem’ (IPCC, 2001) but has been neglected by policy makers up to now, maybe for want of practicable measures for effective response, save for risky geo-engineering.
The radiative forcing potential of different climate geoengineering options
This paper looks at various wheezes for interfering with global warming – apparently bio-char might be the a good bet, seeding the oceans with iron filings is likely a waste of time. T. M. Lenton1,2 and N. E. Vaughan1,2 Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 9, 1–50, 2009 www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/9/1/2009/ © Author(s) 2009.
Letter from Professor Roger Falconer concerning Severn Barrage and Tidal Lagoons
Professor Roger A. FALCONER South Glamorgan, 12th January, 2009 The Editor Penarth Times Dear Sirs, I read with interest the letter from Paul Kinnersley in this week’s Penarth Times, where he states that the tidal lagoon is cheaper and more efficient than a Severn Barrage and he encourages ‘all […]
Falling Hydro, Rising Renewables wind from 4.3% to 32.7% net in renewables, excl. hydro in 10 years.
Wind generation is rapidly gaining a larger share of total renewable generation. In 2007, wind accounted for 32.7 percent of total net generation from non-hydroelectric renewable sources, as compared to 4.3 percent in 1997. The annual growth in solar thermal and photovoltaic generation has been sufficient for this renewable source to account, on average, for 0.5 percent of all non-hydroelectric renewable energy.