Manchester Green Drinks - 14th September

Mark · Post by **Mark** » 07 Aug 2010, 22:41

Date: Tuesday 10th August
Time: 6pm onwards
Venue: Bluu Bar, 85 High Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester. M4 1BD
http://www.greendrinks.org/Manchester

The topic will be: 'Mind the energy gap: solutions for the North West'.

CountingDown · Post by **CountingDown** » 12 Aug 2010, 07:31

I think that one's ben moved to September due to Holidays! - I'll try and make it then.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » 06 Sep 2010, 14:58

Date: Tuesday 14th September
Time: 6pm onwards
Venue: Kro Bar, Piccadilly Gardens
http://www.greendrinks.org/Manchester

The topic will be: 'Mind the energy gap: solutions for the North West'.
Joe Flanagan (NWDA) and Nigel Blandford (Envirolink North West)

CountingDown · Post by **CountingDown** » 06 Sep 2010, 15:14

Not going to make this one I'm afraid. I'll be on the train back from London.

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 08 Sep 2010, 21:51

Yet again it clashes with our community group meeting. Bummer.

Eternal Sunshine · Post by **Eternal Sunshine** » 11 Sep 2010, 13:00

I'll be working until 9pm, so won't be at the meeting unfortunately.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » 14 Sep 2010, 22:33

Went along tonight along with about a dozen others.

Joe Flanagan (NWDA) gave an overview of electricity supply issues - fairly standard stuff, his main conclusion being that we need much more investment in nuclear. Good for resilience, good for CO2 & good for jobs in the NW.

Nigel Blandford (Envirolink North West) gave an overview of the issues wrt heat generation - particularly keen on biomass and would also like to see more waste-to-energy. He also touched on some of the emerging technologies, for example, plans in ROI to combine large-scale wind farms with hydro-power storage reservoirs: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ire ... 71780.html

Q&A followed, but a bit limited due to a noisy environment.

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 14 Sep 2010, 22:58

Sounds good, I know Nigel and he is a good bloke and very knowledgeable. Shame I couldn't make it, I might have to forego my community group meeting if it clashes next time!

Either that or we have another "grim up north" official Powerswitch session