Posted on June 19, 2009 by robertkyriakides
In London when I was much younger there were two fellows who walked around with sandwich boards, not because of their occupations, but as a result of their preoccupations. One chap’s board had a message that warned against the eating of beans and pulses, which according to this chap were at the root of all [...]
Filed under: Coal, biofuels, biogas, biomass, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, climate change deniers, electricity, energy, energy statistics, fuel, gas, global warming, heat, natural gas, nuclear, nuclear energy, oil, renewables, solar, solar energy, wind turbines | Tagged: how much coal is left, how much fuel is left, how much natural gas is left, how much oil is left, how much uranium is left, reserves of coal, reserves of gas, reserves of oil, reserves of uranium, sandwich boards, the end of the world is nigh | 8 Comments »
Posted on June 5, 2009 by robertkyriakides
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 [...]
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Posted on February 14, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Once every town and city has a gas works. Although the gas works did not feature on the Monopoly Board, they were once commonplace. You can still see the old gasholders in towns and cities, where they are soemtimes used for gas storage. Originally in the United Kingdom gas, called Town gas, was created by [...]
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Posted on February 11, 2009 by robertkyriakides
We waste our waste. We carefully follow our legal obligations and separate paper, metals, plastic and the like, urged on by an expensive television campaign telling us to make sure that our waste bins are skinny, with only things in then that are recyclable, and despite all this effort on our part, every little of [...]
Filed under: biogas, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, electricity, energy, gas, global warming, heat, natural gas | Tagged: ernst & young, land fill waste. methane from waste, landfill, longevity of methane in the atmosphere, methane, methanogenesis, methogens, national grid, Small Dole, waste | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 16, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Every political party wants to appear to have “green” policies these days. Green is the new black. The policies of the Government in the United Kingdom are well defined but inchoate, and more observed in their talk than in their action. They talk the talk but do not, when push comes to shove walk the [...]
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Posted on June 14, 2008 by robertkyriakides
We waste so much and so much of our waste is wasted. A large city, like London, creates massive amounts of waste each day. Much of it is simply thrown into landfill sites. In London’s landfill sites we do not have people climbing over them scouring them for useful bits and pieces that the rich [...]
Filed under: biofuels, biogas, biomass, carbon emissions, climate change, electricity, energy, gas, heat, natural gas, renewables, rubbish, solar energy, tax | Tagged: anaerobic digesters, biological degradation, cattle methane, energy from waste, EU landfill tax, landfill tax, methane, microorganisms, recycling, Small Dole, waste | 8 Comments »
