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I don't see the problem of keeping generators available for the times when the demand exceeds what those wonderful wind turbines fail to deliver, because the wind has stopped blowing. Why indeed build new power stations? You probably have a valid point, but I am missing it. Can you clarify? Perhaps...

The neoliberal energy liberalisation gig continues to malfunction! -- and OFGEM's caving in... Looks like we're seeing the rise of the "zombie power station" -- dead, but not yet out of action because it still might turn some valuable profit in a crisis! Why build new power stations when y...

Oh no, not so! In Lincolnshire the planning permissions granted at Laughton and applied for at Biscathorpe are for conventional oil BUT the company (Egdon Resources) is interested in the gas-rich shale of the Bowland-Hodder Formation Just because they're booking the reserve on their balance sheet d...

Radiation levels at the water leak now thought to be an order of magnitude greater than previously announced! What's more significant, in one of those great 'Spinal Tap' amplifier moments, was that the meter they were using only went up to 100mSv, hence why they were not registering 1,800mSv! I've ...

www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/resources/images/2583595/ Yeah, lot of crap that map. Most of the N. Yorks licences are for onshore oil and gas production, and a number have been producing for a few years. Main interest is for fracking/coal-bed methane is for Lancashire, Carlisle/Border, South Wales, Sco...

Watch this video, a lecture presented a couple of weeks ago by an Australian geologist -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFyTSiCXWEE Note, it touches on CSG in Australia, uranium production and nuclear power, as well as metal mining -- because ultimately all energy technologies are reliant upon mini...

"And so it begins..." 8) Yes that's right, NEW! -- this is THE new planning guidance because the Department for Communities and Local Government IS NOT holding a consultation on its content. It is being imposed! What a gift!! No need to waste our time on con-sultations, we can just get st...

As is said, survivalist porn!

Not quite sure if this is survivalist porn or a threat to consumers if the economy goes belly up :wink: : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2360180/The-Good-Life-Couple-spend-just-50-YEAR-bills-collect-rain-water-flush-toilets-grow-food--detached-bungalow-Basingstoke.html The Good Life: Couple...

For those of us in our sixties, it's sometimes hard to remember that anyone younger than that almost certainly has no memories of Margaret Thatcher My kids (in their teens) not only know who she is, but they seemed to be pretty happy she was an ex-ex-prime minister. And for my contribution, here's ...

:roll: :lol: http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Quebec+shale+opponents+have+come+under+police+surveillance/7818434/story.html Quebec shale-gas opponents have come under police surveillance Monique Beaudin, Montreal Gazette, January 14th 2013 Quebec shale-gas opponents were surprised to learn ...

I’VE RECENTLY BEEN reading the collected writings of Theodore Kaczynski. I’m worried that it may change my life. :shock: :roll: :lol: Yeah, I put Kaczynski's magnum opus on my web site in the late 90s. Unfortunately the text can be interpreted in different ways, especially in those culturally bankr...

Such standardisation might also lead to stagnation of innovation as well however due to finance imbalances and market inertia What complete tosh! It's the threats of action under IP law which act as a bar to innovation today, especially in the mismatched use of IP courts between the largest compani...

Catweazle wrote:It all sounds a bit Stalinist, but it's true.

No, it was standardisation which enabled the second phase of the industrial revolution and the expansion of the railways -- e.g. see the impact of Joseph Whitworth

When it can print in high-carbon hardened tool steel, get back to me! If you want to "re-engineer" the industrial revolution that's what's required... you can't re-engineered the world in low density plastic :roll: I would also presume (as I haven't found anyone who has the LCA) that 3D pr...