Posted on May 6, 2008 by robertkyriakides
Regular readers of these writing will recall that I have been critical of Business Secretary John Hutton’s call for a nuclear energy renaissance; I am sure that the nuclear industry cannot guarantee safe disposal of waste and I have also been sure that the carbon emission costs of nuclear are nowhere near as low as [...]
Filed under: John Hutton, carbon emissions, climate change, energy, gas, global warming, nuclear, nuclear energy, oil | Tagged: Australia, Gavin Mudd, kazakhstan, Monash, peak uranium | 6 Comments »
Posted on April 24, 2008 by robertkyriakides
The price of oil still rising but the economy of the world is slowing down. This at first sight seems like a paradox. If the world’s economy slows down you would expect less energy to be used and therefore the price of oil should fall. Today oil stands at around $120 a barrel – it [...]
Filed under: Coal, John Hutton, PV, biofuels, biomass, carbon emissions, climate change, electricity, energy, gas, global warming, heat, malcolm wicks, microgeneration, natural gas, oil, renewables, solar, solar energy, solar panels, tax, transport, wind turbines | Tagged: bank liquidity, Bank of England, David Strahan, Defra, energy ministers, LIBOR, oil consumption, oil price cycle, oil prices, rights issue, Royal Bank of Scotland, sub prime, the last oil shock, the Treasury | 12 Comments »
Posted on March 31, 2008 by robertkyriakides
Saturday’s Guardian led on a story under the headline “Britain seeks loophole in EU green energy targets”. Apparently the Business Minister, Lady Vedera proposes that renewable energy targets should include projects outside the EU. In other words, we should count as part of EU emission targets projects that we sponsor (or sell) to places outside [...]
Filed under: John Hutton, carbon emissions, carbon trading, climate change, energy, global warming, renewables, wind turbines | Tagged: ETS. emission trading, EU, flaws in emissions trading, Guardian, Lady Vedera, nuclear waste, Sarkozy nuclear salesman | 4 Comments »
Posted on March 27, 2008 by robertkyriakides
John Hutton is Secretary of State for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. By training he is a lawyer, but he now is in charge of Energy for the United Kingdom. His problem is to set out an energy policy that will provide the nation over the long term with energy as cheaply and as low [...]
Filed under: Conservatives, John Hutton, carbon emissions, climate change, energy, liberal democrats, malcolm wicks, microgeneration, nuclear, nuclear energy, pollution, power, renewables, solar panels | Tagged: carbon footprint of nuclear energy, energy policy, nuclear power, replacing aging nuclear reactors, scttish national party | 6 Comments »
Posted on February 18, 2008 by robertkyriakides
I wrote the article below for the Building Services Journal, who have kindly allowed me to reproduce it here.
Biomass is on everyone’s list of an environmentally friendly and sustainable energy sources, even though it involves burning fuel. Many developers these days have to comply with the Merton Rule, whether they are environmentalists or not. This [...]
Filed under: Flooding, John Hutton, Merton Rule, biomass, carbon emissions, climate change, energy, global warming, heat, malcolm wicks, pollution, propaganda | Tagged: benzopyrenes, biomass boiler, carbon cycle, carbon monoxide, carcinogenes, closed cycle, decay, gas back up, heavy metals, lung disease, peat, replanting, smoke filtering, wood ash, wood smoke | 3 Comments »
Posted on January 9, 2008 by robertkyriakides
There has been a lot of news in the past day. The race for presidential candidates in the United States has got very interesting, particularly with Mrs Clinton making a strong showing to win New Hampshire. In the United Kingdom there are new measures that will be introduced in an effort to halt or slow [...]
Filed under: John Hutton, carbon emissions, gordon brown, malcolm wicks, microgeneration, nuclear, nuclear energy, parliament, power, solar energy, solar panels | Tagged: cabinet, carbon intensive nuclear, China, district heating, gordon brown, India, John Hutton, low carbon, nuclear carbon, nuclear waste, parliament, progressive tarriffs, renewable energy strategy, Severn Estuary tidal power, siting of nuclear power stations, sustainable energy generation, uranium mining | 4 Comments »
Posted on December 10, 2007 by robertkyriakides
We have had one of the “we are going to one day perhaps” announcements from the government about building “up to” 7000 offshore wind turbines. The story starts big – all UK homes will be powered by wind by 2020 but the small print reveals this to be an aspiration, rather than a policy.
Filed under: John Hutton, carbon emissions, electricity, microgeneration, power, solar panels, wind turbines | Tagged: DBERR, electricity, energy policy, John Hutton, storing electricity, transmission losses, transporting electricity, wind speeds, wind turbines, wire resistance | No Comments »
