2008 updates | Claverton Group

UK Windless Days – Fact or Fiction

Desert Rose Project – Trees, Water and Food and fuel maybe from the Desert

Dr. Richard Lawson, M.D. Thursday, 27 November 2008. Prepared for Claverton Conference, 24th October 2008, Bath. See also: http://tx1.fcomet.com/~claverto/cms/how-to-rapidly-convert-the-central-deserts-of-china-to-agricultural-regions-producing-huge-amounts-of-renewable-energy-for-europe.html http://tx1.fcomet.com/~claverto/cms/pipe-headloss-power-calculator-calculate-how-much-energy-to-pump-seawater-to-the-middle-of-the-sahara-or-gobi-desert-for-desalination-in-the-seawater-greenhouse-answer-not-a-lot.html http://tx1.fcomet.com/~claverto/cms/desert-rose-fresh-water-forest-cover.html http://tx1.fcomet.com/~claverto/cms/the-sahara-forest-project-%e2%80%93-a-new-source-of-fresh-water-food-and-energy.html Contents Problems to be addressed Overview Ethical standards for the strategy Partnerships Technology Community Finance Personnel Timeline Arboricultural Rationale The Aim Desert Rose intends to reforest desert areas by using solar desalination of […]

UK ENERGY SYSTEM COULD SUFFER SAME FATE AS BANKS, EXPERTS WARN

Representatives of an independent group of over 250 international energy and financial experts are meeting this week to reveal how the UK, Europe and other continents can run on renewable electricity for a similar price to that currently paid for fossil-based electricity. The Claverton Energy Research Group is also warning on the eve of its conference, which runs in Bath from 24-26 Oct, that current world governments’ energy policies are inadequate to meet growing global energy demands, and says serious action needs to be taken now!