Posted on December 3, 2009 by robertkyriakides
I have always admired those who have risked their lives and health to work in coal mines. I expect that they never did so out of choice but out of necessity. Working in mines is very dangerous and working with coal is very dangerous. There are dangers underground, dangers in the pollution and emissions of [...]
Filed under: Climate Change and health, Coal, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, energy, global warming | Tagged: aberfan. Pantglas junior school, national coal board, NCB, slag heaps | Leave a Comment »
Posted on October 10, 2009 by robertkyriakides
When I first started to write about the forthcoming energy crisis, many years ago, it was because it was something that I had studied and analysed; it was my reason for founding Genersys, a renewable energy company; in this case the analysis created the decision, rather than the decision to found Genersys creating my views [...]
Filed under: Coal, climate change, electricity, energy, fuel, gas, microgeneration, power, renewables, solar, solar energy, wind turbines | Tagged: Chile, China, japan, ofgem, project discovery, scramble for energy, uranium | 3 Comments »
Posted on October 9, 2009 by robertkyriakides
A small sliver of nearly good news (well, actually not bad news) has just been reported. E.on, the multinational energy firm and one of the big six United Kingdom energy suppliers, has decided to defer its plans to build a new coal fired power station at Kingsnorth. It is not more than a sliver of [...]
Filed under: Coal, carbon emissions, climate change, electricity, energy, global warming, microgeneration, natural gas | Tagged: clean coal technology, cliamte change protests, coal burning power stations, e.on, Greenpeace, Kingsnorth, sliver of good news | 1 Comment »
Posted on July 13, 2009 by robertkyriakides
The Confederation of British Industry has called the United Kingdom’s energy policy “disjointed” by claiming that there is too much investment in wind energy and not enough investment in nuclear energy and “clean coal” energy. I think that the Confederation of British Industry is wrong on every count.
Filed under: Coal, carbon emissions, climate change, global warming, heat, microgeneration, nuclear, power, renewables, solar, solar energy, solar panels | Tagged: CBI, clean coal energy, confederation of British Industry, energy policy vacuum, european energy policy, new nuclear power stations, UK energy policy | 1 Comment »
Posted on July 10, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Every few months the leaders of the Group of 8 industrialised nations (USA, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United Kingdom) meet. They call themselves the G8. The purpose of each meeting is to fix the world’s problems. It is nothing to do with the leaders getting some excellent publicity so that they [...]
Filed under: Coal, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, energy, global warming | Tagged: climate change statements, climate change targets, coal burning power stations, DECC, e.on, Ed Miliband, G8, justine thornton, Kingsnorth | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 4, 2009 by robertkyriakides
If common sense governed the affairs of people South Africa would be one of the world’s leading markets for solar thermal technology and there would be a solar system on every roof in that great republic.
Filed under: Coal, carbon dioxide, climate change, electricity, energy, global warming, solar, solar energy, solar panels | Tagged: average energy costs in south africa, eskom, payback of solar geysers, savings from solar geysers, soalr geysers, South Africa | 5 Comments »
Posted on July 2, 2009 by robertkyriakides
I have written a great deal about energy from the climate change perspective. This has roused, from time to time, the ire of climate change deniers, who have often not bothered to read my views but argue against opinions that I do not hold. However, in all the arguments of those that think that climate [...]
Filed under: Coal, carbon dioxide, climate change, climate change deniers, energy, gas, global warming, nuclear energy, oil, solar panels, wind turbines | Tagged: climate change deniers, energy dependence, energy independence, sovereignty | 3 Comments »
Posted on June 27, 2009 by robertkyriakides
I wrote yesterday about the allegation by Consumer Focus that the big six energy companies are overcharging their customers, because they are not putting prices down as energy prices fall. A year ago oil and gas prices (as well as coal prices) were at an all time high. Oil was $147 a barrel and it [...]
Filed under: Coal, climate change, electricity, energy, fuel, gas, global warming, natural gas, renewables, solar panels | Tagged: big six energy suppliers, consumer focus, energy price rip off | Leave a Comment »
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 16, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Where is all the coal and how long will it last?
Filed under: Coal, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, energy, global warming, natural gas, nuclear energy, oil, pollution | Tagged: carbon dioxide as a pollutant, carbon sequestration, China, coal prices, energy, foreign energy policy, India, probelsm with carbon sequestration, Saudi Arabia, USA coal | 4 Comments »
