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 […]
Read More"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 […]
Read More"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 […]
Read MoreTHE 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 […]
Read MoreTime is running out for UK flagship wind project London Array
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 […]
Read MoreDiscussion 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 […]
Read MoreLabour 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 […]
Read More"Real energy security" – Prof. David Elliott, Open University
(Originally Letter to Guardian Newspaper) With the battles continuing over the EU’s access to Russia’s gas supplies via transit arrangement across the Ukraine, it may be worth looking to the future, when a different set of energy options may change the geopolitical realities. Currently we are fighting over the dwindling and increasingly expensive oil and […]
Read MoreWould Europe's use of significant power imports from Africa and the Middle East be "completely barmy" ?
(Some clarifications and extensions made since earlier version) A number of people have made comments similar to this: “I have found Czisch’s plan for an Inter-Continental Grid, with Europe as its centre, unrealistic, politically. The idea that Europe should rely on power imports from Africa and the Middle East is completely barmy. The recent panic […]
Read MoreTim Burr, National Audit Office, "England is at risk of missing the 2013 EU landfill reduction target"
This press release is basically saying the UK is at risk of not achieving its Biodegradable Municipal Waste (BMW) landfill diversion target for 2013. This means that energy from waste plants (using anaerobic digestion) are too slow and difficult to procure even with government support for the PFI credits and with the risk of massive fines […]
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