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 26, 2008 by robertkyriakides
If you run a business you know that the stock that you hold (known in the US as inventory) is critical to the success of your business. The more stock that you hold the more capital you have tied up; in some businesses stock decays with time (such as food) or becomes less valuable by [...]
Filed under: Coal, climate change, electricity, energy, global warming, microgeneration, natural gas, nuclear, oil | Tagged: "just in time", Alex Salmond, E.ON UK, energy stocks, fuel protest, fuel stocks, gas imports, gas stocks, inventory, stock, uranium | No 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 March 9, 2008 by robertkyriakides
Everyone talks about carbon footprints. It does not give an accurate picture but everyone knows what is meant by it. It is more accurate to think in terms of carbon dioxide emissions for each unit of energy created. Renewables provide us with a means of enjoying energy which leaves no carbon footprint. True? No. Every [...]
Filed under: PV, biomass, carbon emissions, climate change, energy, global warming, heat, nuclear, solar energy | Tagged: carbon footprint of renewables, running water | 2 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 31, 2008 by robertkyriakides
Each year twenty back bench members of the House of Commons names are drawn from all back benchers names in a ballot. The twenty lucky ones will be given some of Parliament’s time and resources to draw up a bill that might become law. Usually only the top few names in the ballot have a [...]
Filed under: Conservatives, Merton Rule, PV, carbon emissions, energy, microgeneration, nuclear, parliament, power, solar, solar energy, wind turbines | Tagged: Merton Rule Bill, Michael Fallon, parliamentary ballot, Sevenoaks | 1 Comment »
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 15, 2008 by robertkyriakides
The Energy Savings Trust has published a useful analysis of the “interventions” that they see as being necessary to achieve more widespread take up of microgeneration. It is called “Generating the Future” but may be better called “Microgenerating the Future”.
The Energy Savings Trust (EST) say that microgeneration is important because it helps to reduce carbon [...]
Filed under: PV, biomass, carbon emissions, climate change, electricity, energy, gas, genersys, heat, microgeneration, nuclear, pollution, solar, solar energy, solar panels, tax | Tagged: Energy Savings Trust, future of microgeneration, installtion costs microgeneration, micorgeneration, ways of stimulating microgeneration uptake | 2 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 »
