Oil and Gas leaks from Deepwater Horizon

When the oil and gas leaked from the Macondo Well at Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in June 2010 something happened that never happened before. The oil and gas leaked some one and a half kilometres under the sea.

Looking Forward to the Olympics?

On 27th July 2012 the London Olympic Games opens. It will have cost a staggering amount of money to put on; more than nine billion pounds will have been spent with much of the spending being spent on ephemera. Half a billion will be spent on “security”. More than £81 million is being spent on [...]

Natural Forces of Climate Change

We are in winter now, in London, and we enjoy or suffer the seasons (according to individual taste) because of the earth’s tilt. At 23.5⁰ the tilt of the earth enables the earth to receive more concentrated light in the summer months and les concentrate light in the winter months. If the earth titled a [...]

Christmas is Over

Christmas is over and we are in the dull interregnum of low light and strange days between Christmas and the New Year holidays. The news is light as politicians take their holidays. Presumably when politicians work the news is heavy with their arguments and discussions and with their blunders, but for now the quiet period [...]

My Voice is Too Small

Political connections and a strong lobby group can do things that a good cause and holding the right moral position cannot. When governments make decisions they succumb to the influence of the powerful.

Happy Christmas from Genersys Plc

Happy Christmas

I wish all my readers a very happy Christmas and a safe and prosperous New Year

Happy Christmas

I am only doing my job and I know nothing

I have been able to watch some of the evidence given at the Leveson Inquiry, mostly by journalists. It struck me while watching then give their evidence just how focussed they are on getting their story in the papers to the exclusion of all else. Most of they use two defences to charges of shall [...]

The Shortest Day

Perhaps it is the lost customs of long past generations but I always feel that the winter solstice is worth acknowledging. The shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere is usually 21st December but this year it was 20th December and so I acknowledge it after it has passed. At 11.12 a.m. the [...]