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 | 7 Comments »
Posted on April 7, 2008 by robertkyriakides
The concept of “peak oil” is well known; there is a stage when we have less oil in our world’s reserves than we have used. It does not take much imagination to understand that this is not good. M King Hubbert was a geologist working for Shell in the 1950s.
He proposed that the rate [...]
Filed under: Coal, caol, carbon emissions, carbon trading, climate change, electricity, energy, gas, global warming, microgeneration, natural gas, nuclear energy, oil, power, renewables | Tagged: china coal, coal reserves, Energy Watch group, hubbert curve, M King Hubbert, oil reserves, peak coal, peak gas, peak oil, peak uranium, the Energy Age, types of coal, US coal | 1 Comment »
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 2, 2008 by robertkyriakides
Things seem to have gone quiet on the nuclear front. So far we know that the Government is not opposed to the building of new plants, but that private industry would have to raise money for them. They are changing the planning laws to enable operators to obtain planning permission more quickly than they can [...]
Filed under: Flooding, climate change, electricity, energy, global warming, nuclear, nuclear energy, weather | Tagged: climate change, cost of decomissioning, cost of disposal of waste, flooding of nuclear plants, nuclear energy, planning permission, sea levels rising, siting of reactors | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 21, 2008 by robertkyriakides
Sometimes you need vision to identify a solution to a problem and the hardest thing is to think laterally to solve the problem. Storing electricity is hard to do, especially in large quantities. In the home you store heat in your radiators and in your hot water cylinders and tanks but you do not usually [...]
Filed under: carbon emissions, cars, climate change, electricity, energy, nuclear energy, pollution, power, transport | Tagged: AC Propulsion, batteries, broadband over the electric mains, electric cars, energy stores, Steven Letendre, storing electricity, University of Delaware, Willett Kempton | 2 Comments »
Posted on January 19, 2008 by robertkyriakides
Are we creating fewer carbon emissions? This can be very hard to discover. If you want to look at the world as a whole you have to measure the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere scientifically. The last most accurate measurement was 381 parts of carbon dioxide per million parts of the atmosphere. Various [...]
Filed under: Coal, carbon emissions, climate change, electricity, energy, energy statistics, fuel poverty, gas, heat, natural gas, nuclear, nuclear energy, oil, petrol | Tagged: 381ppm, BERR, catastrophic climate change, domestic consumption, driving gently, electricty statistics, failing policy, gas, nulcear, oil, saving energy | 3 Comments »
Posted on January 11, 2008 by robertkyriakides
I have been reading a document published by the Conservative Party called “Blueprint for a Green Economy, written by John Gummer and Zac Goldsmith as a submission to David Cameron’s shadow cabinet. I have been very critical of the Labour government’s energy policy and in the interests of balance I thought that I should turn [...]
Filed under: Conservatives, David Cameron, John Gummer, carbon emissions, energy, heat, nuclear energy, pollution, solar energy | Tagged: 2003 White Paper, Blueprint for a green economy, Conservatives, energy, energy supply, environment, John Gummer, regulation, Zac Goldsmith | 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 November 29, 2007 by robertkyriakides
On Tuesday the government published a new planning bill, which sets time tables and speeds up the planning process for large infrastructure projects such as power stations, airports, pipelines and fuel storage depots.
On Wednesday Gordon Brown indicated that a decision on nuclear power would be made in January, and at the same time he announced [...]
Filed under: gordon brown, microgeneration, nuclear energy, power, solar energy, solar panels | Tagged: , infrastructure development, nuclear energy, planning permission, siting of reactors, sustainability | No Comments »
Posted on November 26, 2007 by robertkyriakides
These days it seems that if you want to comment on a statement by the Prime Minister you have be aware that, rather like a film, the statement will be trailed, and then made, but the trailer is usually so extensive that you do not want to bother with the full version.
Today’s trailer is about [...]
Filed under: carbon emissions, climate change, gordon brown, heat, nuclear energy, pollution, power | Tagged: carbon consequences of nuclear power, climate change, dangers of nuclear power, energy, gordon brown, nuclear, radioactivity, storage of nuclear waste, uranium | 2 Comments »
