EU ETS second phase has cut GHG emissions by 0.33% – "a 5 billion euro fraud"

On 19 March 2011 07:42, Hugh Sharman wrote  http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00zf34j/Costing_the_Earth_Carbon_Trading and please get it onto Claverton On 3/19/2011 3:08 AM, Chris Hodrien wrote: Hugh, fascinating and important stuff. I missed this. Please provide programme details +BBC podcast weblink.   One of my Warwick Univ international MSc students did the ineffectiveness of the ETS +CDM for her […]

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Who's to blame for high commodity – energy, food, metals, prices – it's the producers, stupid, not the banks and speculators

Happy New Year everyone. This article of mine re markets might be of interest (also below). http://seekingalpha.com/article/245574-who-s-to-blame-for-high-commodity-prices-it-s-the-producers-stupid v=1294568746&source=tracking_notify In my view commodity markets have two price boundary ‘trend-lines’: a ‘sellers’ market’ upper boundary, where consumer demand destruction sets in, and a ‘buyers’ market’ lower boundary, where ‘production destruction’ sets in. The current situation, where finance […]

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German government major conclusions of a review of energy policy in its Energiekonzept.

On 14 September 2010 09:42, Matt Phillips  In case you have not studied the German Energiekonzept document, below are some informal notes on what it says. Last week the German government released its major conclusions of a review of energy policy in its Energiekonzept. If your German is up to scratch, here it is: http://www.bmu.de/files/pdfs/allgemein/application/pdf/entw_energiekonzept_kf.pdf […]

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Wrong-Footing the CRC – Carbon Reduction Commitment DECC

The Carbon Reduction Commitment or CRC came into effect this April and appears to have taken many by sur-prise. One newspaper suggested that as many as 43% of potential CRC partici-pants had never heard of it. The timetable for the scheme is such that those organisations claiming igno-rance will fail to register by the end […]

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Carbon Capture and Storage in the UK Questions that Need to Be Asked

  F.Starr PhD, BSc, FIMMM, C.Eng: Materials and Energy Consultant     Dr F Starr played a major part in the EU Supported Dynamis Programme, in which natural gas steam reforming, and coal based IGCC based processes, were to be developed to capture CO2 from fossil fuels. Both processes would produce a hydrogen rich gas which […]

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CCS Carbon Capture and Storage – the facts.

Dear Oliver, You’re not alone in your scepticism! However, you’re wrong about the CO2 emissions. The reality is that coal +CCS as currently defined/mandated emits significantly less CO2 than NG CCGT without CCS (‘unabated’), because authorities in the UK (and most countries except Japan) are demanding c.90% CO2 removal from coal, whereas CCGT emits about […]

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