Noel Edmonds on UK energy crisis!

[mikepepler]

Commercial spammers have no right to be on this site as far as I can see. I feel you are being naievely fair Mike....... Now if she stopped using the commercial signature and still continued to post to the site, then I would certainly give her/him a chance.

Perhaps, though it was me that insisted she put her company details in the signature, so people knew who she was representing. Also, several of our members, including fairly regular contributors, advertise their commercial websites in their signatures. I think this is OK, as their businesses relate to what the forums are about. Emma's may be less relevant, but it's still about energy. Who knows - maybe we can convince E4B to team up with a bank to finance businesses installing solar PV if we all email them?

I'm just pleased "outsiders" are reading the forums - even though her posts don't show a full understanding of the situation, she has at least read enough to know what kind of thing to be talking about.

[Vortex]

She may simply be a freelancer paid to plant links on blogs.

For all we know she is feigning interest in petrolhead sites too, with a signature linking to a car manufacturer.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_in_blogs

Perhaps the mods can set 'rel=nofollow' to suspect web links, to prevent Google scoring them?

[Keepz]

...as well placed as any other comparable economy to deal with it

Are you seriously suggesting that the UK is as well placed as any other comparable economy when it comes to medium term electricity provision? I'm hard pressed to think of a worse country.

I was talking about gas supply, not electricity. As far as electricity goes, I do not think anybody else is having to close as much existing capacity as we are. But as I keep on saying, voice-in-the-wilderness-like, new capacity is being built in anticipation of the closures, and more is in the pipeline, as shown by National Grid's seven-year statement. There is no reason to conclude that it's not going to be enough such that the lights are bound to go out, although if interest groups keep hindering the Government's efforts to facilitate the process of planning and consent it can only get more difficult.

What do we actually know about electricity security of supply in other countries anyway? What information do they provide that is remotely comparable to the wealth of detail that is available on the National Grid website?

[biffvernon]

What do we actually know about electricity security of supply in other countries anyway?

In New Zealand, where two thirds of electricity is hydro and there's been a draught, the five big power companies are launching a save electricity campaign this weekend.

[Blue Peter]

In New Zealand, where two thirds of electricity is hydro and there's been a draught, the five big power companies are launching a save electricity campaign this weekend.

Crikey! If a mere draught can do that, think what would happen if it didn't rain much We'd better get stocked up on door and window seals


Peter.

[biffvernon]

Drout, drowt, drought