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It's hardly news to say that if the wind doesn't blow then wind turbines produce no electricity - I think a 5 year old would know that. I hope that they print a similar article when it's windy to the effect that "today wind turbines were producing x% of the UK demand with renewable, non-fossil ...

Just musing here ... The BBC continues to refer to our current weather as "a cold snap" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8448399.stm). I've noticed that nowhere else in the world apart from the UK experiences these 'snaps' - they seem to just have snow and icy weather. Does anybody know how ...

Maybe we should stop throwing away 1/3 of it before we try to grow more and throw away 1/3 of that as well. Radical I know, but may have some merit :roll: Mind you, when does the government ever consider demand rather than supply - the obvious drawback of which is that it might mean people have to c...

You probably need only a couple of hundred items of data to get a fairly good picture. Fairly good, but accurate enough to say it's fallen by 0.5%, rather than the 0.2% that was expected? You're not ... you're not, err ... err, suggesting that ... that... our government might be being less than, er...

Do you really not drive a car? do you walk everywhere? There are more choices than between cars or walking you know! :wink: I don't have a TV so luckily I hardly ever see Jeremy Clarkson, but on the odd occasion when I've had the misfortune to do so, or have read something he's written in a magazin...

FWIW (after 4 pages) I emailed this to CC's web site on the 1st of August: I really love your "Why Kingsnorth?" page, which is hard hitting and funny - excellent stuff. However, I'd take serious issue with point 7. If you read the energy sites such as PowerSwitch and The Oil Drum [ http://...

Andy Hunt wrote:I could get to see Pink Floyd and Led Zep live if it was 1973.

No chance of that now.

Well, there is the OZ Pink Floyd - amazing

The bigger question is whether it affects just the Starbucks and the tanning salons,... The newest street (re)built here in Brighton is Jubilee Street. Our super new eco-library is there and a huge square of empty concrete in front of it. The whole right hand stretch of the road was a set of 'avail...

President Obama

P.O.

A discussion on the oil price between JH and ? Duncan?, an ex-oil man. Asked where he thought oil prices would be a t the end of the year, he said (I think) 100 bucks. I thought that given everything we've seen over the last few years and considering the current situation I wonder what prompted his ...

Under the motto, "A world in transition: delivering energy for sustainable growth," the Congress - often referred to as the Olympics of the oil industry - is expected to attract more than 4,000 delegates from 60 countries.

My italics. Oh, dear

mikepepler wrote: $150 this summer seems no problem at all now, $200 here we come?

Yes, but will we see a summer?

Theft of fuel from standby generators is already a problem, a large well known department store recently lost a tank full. The thieves arrived in a road tanker and stated that they were delivering fuel, in fact they pumped it out. Hired tanker, false number plates. :shock: When Rob Hopkins said tha...

An interesting thought, but I don't think so long-term. The problem, I'd imagine, is that SA doesn't actually make very much and they'll have to import a lot of the stuff that they want to spend all those $$$$s on. Trouble is, if all the manufacturing countries are reeling under a spiralling oil pri...

You've got to love Gordon: Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the UK should be a leader in renewable energy. Indeed, indeed. But unfortunately the other competitors had already lapped him three times before Gordon even heard the starting gun :roll: And you've got to love Mr Duncan: For the Conservativ...