How to Repel an Attack on Freedom

Which is most important to us – freedom or safety? Freedom is always tested by danger and the limits of freedom, and its companion tolerance, are pushed back by vicious acts.

Scientists losing the Climate Change Plot

You would have thought that the scientists who work on climate change science would be only too pleased to share the data they gather, upon which they base their climate change calculations. After all every scientific theory needs tested and retested and tested again by as many different qualified people as possible. It is only [...]

The Decline of Western Civilisation

Our Western culture – the civilisation of Europe and the USA and Canada has dominated the world for many centuries. It has been the most affluent and successful society in these times. Most of the wealth and inventions have originated from western culture. Is our Western society going to remain dominant or will the cultures [...]

The Renewable Heat Incentive Premium Payment Scheme

On Monday 1st August a new UK government incentive is available for up to 25,000 homes for householders who opt to install a renewable heating system. A householder can get a grant of as much as £1,250 towards the installation costs of solar heating panels, air and ground source heat pumps and biomass boilers. Those [...]

Frost Damage in Heat Pipes

German manufactured products are famous for being rigorously tested. One of the leading test institutes is TUV Rheinland which has a special expertise in testing thermal solar evacuated tubes. Evacuated tube solar collectors were originally designed by Dornier in Germany. There are various kinds of evacuated tubes but one popular and expensive kind is the [...]

We’re Having a Heat Wave

For nearly a week the mid-east of the United States and Canada has been experiencing record breaking heat. Newark, Washington DC. Baltimore, Portland, Concord, Providence have all had record temperatures at or very close to 42C. In fact some 220 individual heat records for July have been broken. New York City has so far not [...]

High Pressure Energy Selling

When there are only six major sellers of domestic energy, which is a product that cannot be improved or changed, the sellers of energy can only compete for market share. There are a number of ways of competing for market share. You can advertise, send mail shots to potential customers, or put a sales person [...]

Blogging my life away

Have I been blogging my life away? I wrote my first post on 29th October 2007, and have posted something every day, even if it is merely a Christmas or Easter greeting. I have now sat down in front of a computer with a view to writing something for this blog more than one thousand [...]

What happened to the oil and gas released at Deepwater Horizon?

The Gulf of México is a very large body of water and for most of us thousands of miles away. With all of the scandal presently occupying the public about the papers, the politicians and the policemen, it is easy to forget that for three months just more than a year ago the Deepwater Horizon’s [...]

The Genersys Solar Thermal Guide to the Renewable Heat Incentive for commerce, businesses, industrial and public sector and not for profit organisations

The Renewable Heat Incentive is a United Kingdom government subsidy, financed by the tax payer, to provide incentive payments for those who install renewable heat. It is essentially an incentive to reward renewable heat installations, rather than low carbon emitting installations and covers solar thermal biomass, ground and water source heat pumps, geothermal, biogas and [...]