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Biofuels – throwing out the baby with the bath water.
Filed under: biofuels, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, energy, fuel, global warming | Tagged: 1, and Theo H. van der Meerb, Arjen Y. Hoekstraa, bio fuel production and food prices, corn, dirty renewables, Jatropha, maize, sorghum. air new zealand, sugar beet, sugar cane, water foot print, water footprint of biofuels, Winnie Gerbens-Leenesa, wolrd bank | 7 Comments »
The fuel consumption figures only show part of the evironmental impact of vehicles
Filed under: carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, Coal, electricity, energy, energy statistics, global warming, oil | Tagged: active emissions, electric cars, exhaust emissions, inactive emissions, M. V. Chester and A. Horvath, proportion of carbon from transportation, tailpipe emissions | Leave a Comment »
Air New Zealand has been trialling for Boeing and Rolls Royce a mix of traditional kerosene fuel with oil from the Jatropha plant seed (Jatropha Curas) in one of its airplanes. Jatropha oil mixed with kerosene improved fuel consumption by slightly more than one percent, which could lead to savings of four and a half [...]
Filed under: biofuels, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, energy, global warming | Tagged: Air New Zealand, biodiesel, Boeing.Rolls Royce, Goldman Sachs, Jatropha, Joven Lales, Oscar Zamora, palm oil, Ted Mendoza, University of the Philippines. Los Baños | 2 Comments »
UK energy bills are higher than they should be to finance the dumping of compact fluorescent bulbs
Filed under: carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, electricity, energy, global warming, solar, solar energy, solar panels | Tagged: amount of cfl given away by energy companies, Andrew Warren, Carbon Emission Reduction Target, CERT, compact fluorescent light bulbs. cfl, energy companies spend on insulation, insulation, ofgem | 4 Comments »
Why we need to pay criminal defence lawyers properly
Filed under: Jacqui Smith, justice | Tagged: confiscation of a convicted criminal’s assets, confiscation of assets, criminal legal aid, jack straw, law, legal aid | Leave a Comment »
Many people use the words “renewable” and “sustainable” in relation to energy fuel and the environment without being specific about what they mean by these words. I could write a long piece about definitions, but in the case of energy I think that it is better to classify the various types of energy fuel so that [...]
Filed under: biofuels, biogas, biomass, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, Coal, electricity, energy, fuel, gas, global warming, heat, natural gas, nuclear energy, oil, renewables, solar, solar energy, solar panels | 5 Comments »
The Madden-Julian Oscillation sounds like one of those files that Dr Watson kept of Sherlock Holmes’ cases deep in the vaults of a dusty bank, or else a particularly exciting ballroom dance routine, but in fact it describes a weather pattern that has very far reaching climate consequences.
Filed under: climate change, global warming | Tagged: Andrew Majda, El Niño Southern Oscillation, extreme weather events, La Nina, madden-julian oscillation, Paul Julian, Roland Madden, Samuel Stechmann, weather events, weather patterns | Leave a Comment »
The United Kingdom will be holding two elections on Thursday. One Election will be for representation in Europe where Members of the European Parliament will be elected, and another will be for local authorities, where local councillors will be elected. There is no doubt that the elections will be very bad for the Labour Party. [...]
Filed under: Alistair Darling, climate change, global warming, gordon brown, parliament, Tony Blair | Tagged: elections, European Parliament | 1 Comment »
The difficulties of keeping abreast of the British Gas Game
Filed under: climate change, energy, gas, global warming, natural gas | Tagged: British gas, gas charges, smart meters, stupid meters | Leave a Comment »
I remember watching Joanne Carr of the charity National Energy Action explain (it must be more than eight or nine years ago) the benefits of smart meters to a group of the National Energy Action’s business supporters. I should explain that national Energy Action is one of those curious British institutions – a charity supported [...]
Filed under: carbon emissions, climate change, electricity, energy, fuel, fuel poverty, global warming, heat, power | Tagged: definition of fuel poverty, joanne carr, national energy action, NEA, smart mewters | 2 Comments »
