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• Fracking in the UK and why we shouldn’t expect too much.
  on Jan 24, 2013 in Gas Fracking UK Government
  I have been intending to look at Fracking and how the UK might benefit from the process for a while and something in the news today prompted me to write this blog entry. However let me take a step back and look at the procedure. Fracking in brief. We...
• Decentralised Energy
  on Jan 21, 2013 in Combined Heat and Power CHP Electricity Low carbon micro-generation Solar Power UK Government
  Last year I wrote about Microgeneration in this article. I concentrated on the concept of dispersing the energy generation to a multitude of locations in an attempt to even out the flow of intermittent and fluctuating power coming from renewable souc...
• Tomorrow’s Smart Grid
  on Jan 15, 2013 in Government industry investment micro-generation UK Government
  Yesterday the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) published a report on offshore electricity transmission – a new model for infrastructure. The press in their normal knee-jerk, heavy handed way have jumped on this to demonstrate their assumption th...
• Energy from Thorium – Top Ten Attributes
  on Jan 11, 2013 in Nuclear Power clean energy Thorium
  Unashameably I’m reproducing word for word a paper first published on the website www.energyfromthorium.com First published online on 30th. December 2012 this shows the arguments why Thorium should be pursued. This is so important that we need...
• Measuring Electricity
  on Jan 9, 2013 in Wind Turbines Electricity turbine UK energy Wind Power
  A recent announcement told us that: The London Array Offshore Wind Farm recently commenced power generation, marking the near-completion of Phase One of the world’s largest offshore wind farm. The wind farm is being installed on a 245 sq km site of...
• The Severn Barrage – The Idea That Will Not Die
  on Jan 3, 2012 in Tidal Power clean energy tidal Power UK Government
  The proposal for a tidal barrage to be built across the Severn estuary – from Weston-super-Mare to Cardiff – has been around for some while. In 2010, after a study which lasted from 2002 to 2010 by the Department of Energy and Climate Cha...
• You must read this Book
  on Nov 21, 2011 in Government Electricity Environment renewable Solar Power UK Government Wind Power
  Covering the countryside The chief energy advisor to the UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), Professor David MacKay, has published some interesting figures. In an address to the Royal Society last week he announced some of his...
• A visit to China
  on Jun 13, 2011 in Environment Nuclear Power China Electricity Thorium Wind
  I have just returned from a visit to China. It was actually a holiday but I could not help noticing some interesting things which reflect the country’s approach to todays problems about energy production, the environment and growth. Viewed from...
• Are these people Mad?
  on Mar 30, 2011 in Nuclear Power UK Government
  By people I’m talking about politicians, in particular Nick Clegg the UK Deputy Prime Minister, and also about the media. In a briefing to journalists while flying, at the publics expense, to Mexico Nick Clegg cast doubt on the future for nucle...
• Ten Reasons why Thorium is the answer
  on Mar 21, 2011 in Nuclear Power Thorium
  One of the repercussions of the accident in Japan to the nuclear plant at Fukushima is the perception that nuclear power is unacceptably dangerous and should not be developed further. Apart from the fact that the safety record of this industry is exc...

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