Comments for Robert Kyriakides's Weblog http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com Ideas about the environment Mon, 12 May 2008 10:30:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on Gordon Ramsay, nouveau environmentalist by yuning http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/gordon-ramsay-nouveau-environmentalist/#comment-749 yuning Mon, 12 May 2008 09:34:11 +0000 http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/?p=265#comment-749 While taking about "Top Gear", originally I was a fan of "Top Gear", as time goes and me getting old. I started to realise that a TV programme in prime time is about making what People want to watch instead of what People or Nation could benefit from so that it could make profit from advertisment. "Top Gear" talks about great cars but it never talks about 1) how it is made, 2) how mechanically works perfectly and 3) how aerodynamics is applied, what material is used, or even 4) how it should be driven correctly. Worsely, "Top Gear" always has a section on showing how to dump, crash or dismentle the cars madly instead of environmentally. I respect lots of great mechanics in England. But I feel heart breaking if the nation could NOT maintain its proud in 1800's like German does after the wars. Good luck to British car industry which graduately moving to far east, since Japanese invasion, Chinese, Indian lately! While taking about “Top Gear”, originally I was a fan of “Top Gear”, as time goes and me getting old. I started to realise that a TV programme in prime time is about making what People want to watch instead of what People or Nation could benefit from so that it could make profit from advertisment.

“Top Gear” talks about great cars but it never talks about
1) how it is made,
2) how mechanically works perfectly and
3) how aerodynamics is applied, what material is used, or even
4) how it should be driven correctly.

Worsely, “Top Gear” always has a section on showing how to dump, crash or dismentle the cars madly instead of environmentally.

I respect lots of great mechanics in England. But I feel heart breaking if the nation could NOT maintain its proud in 1800’s like German does after the wars.

Good luck to British car industry which graduately moving to far east, since Japanese invasion, Chinese, Indian lately!

]]> Comment on Uranium and being kind to Kazakhstan by Peter Marc Burke http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/uranium-and-being-kind-to-kazakhstan/#comment-746 Peter Marc Burke Sun, 11 May 2008 19:08:05 +0000 http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/?p=259#comment-746 Robert, it would seem unfair to compare/benchmark by measurement of CO2/kwh because Solar thermal is actually putting the energy directly into the water to heat it to a required temperature, so it would be more fair to measure CO2 (emissions)/°C(Temperature rise of water) also Solar thermal will never cause a catastrophe such as Chernobyl or three mile island. There are three kinds of lies; lies, damned lies, and statistics. I think the comparison of Solar thermal with nuclear would be statistics? Robert, it would seem unfair to compare/benchmark by measurement of CO2/kwh because Solar thermal is actually putting the energy directly into the water to heat it to a required temperature, so it would be more fair to measure CO2 (emissions)/°C(Temperature rise of water) also Solar thermal will never cause a catastrophe such as Chernobyl or three mile island.
There are three kinds of lies; lies, damned lies, and statistics. I think the comparison of Solar thermal with nuclear would be statistics?

]]> Comment on Flooding and the need to decentralise energy supply by robertkyriakides http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/flooding-and-the-need-to-decentralise-energy-supply/#comment-744 robertkyriakides Sat, 10 May 2008 22:05:32 +0000 http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/?p=262#comment-744 Peter You have made a very valuable point about buffer storage. Robert Peter

You have made a very valuable point about buffer storage.

Robert

]]> Comment on Uranium and being kind to Kazakhstan by robertkyriakides http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/uranium-and-being-kind-to-kazakhstan/#comment-743 robertkyriakides Sat, 10 May 2008 22:04:01 +0000 http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/?p=259#comment-743 Peter There has been some work on the CO2/kWh of nuclear and it seesm to come out about the same as solar thermal, provided you use high grade ore. Shame that my product doesn't offer any plutonium, though! regards Robert Peter
There has been some work on the CO2/kWh of nuclear and it seesm to come out about the same as solar thermal, provided you use high grade ore.

Shame that my product doesn’t offer any plutonium, though!
regards

Robert

]]> Comment on Why we do need solar systems by robertkyriakides http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/why-we-do-need-solar-systems/#comment-742 robertkyriakides Sat, 10 May 2008 22:01:37 +0000 http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/?p=263#comment-742 Thanks for the extra ideas - we need them. Robert Thanks for the extra ideas - we need them.

Robert

]]> Comment on Are cyclones in Burma our fault? by robertkyriakides http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/are-cyclones-in-burma-our-fault/#comment-741 robertkyriakides Sat, 10 May 2008 22:00:49 +0000 http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/?p=264#comment-741 I hope so too, Yuning Robert I hope so too, Yuning

Robert

]]> Comment on Are cyclones in Burma our fault? by yuning http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/are-cyclones-in-burma-our-fault/#comment-740 yuning Sat, 10 May 2008 14:01:46 +0000 http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/?p=264#comment-740 Things happen for a reason. The reason is good to happen now instead of later. Have we done enough for the world we live in. Sorry I have NOT done enough till now. I have been sitting in fortune 500 companies' office for more than 10 years and making enough money for a comfortable living. One day, if we watching our families dying like those in Burma. We will all regret the huge profit we earn cannot swap back the lives of the death. Robert, our installation labour cost for solar panel only 4 hundreds pounds flat price no matter how. Labour is the most profitable product in capitalism as pointed out by Karl Marx. If we a set of well educated people with high paid wage in the society could NOT offer this to help the environment, how do we suppose the poor with the low skills does. Hope the UK flood not happening again. Things happen for a reason. The reason is good to happen now instead of later.

Have we done enough for the world we live in. Sorry I have NOT done enough till now. I have been sitting in fortune 500 companies’ office for more than 10 years and making enough money for a comfortable living. One day, if we watching our families dying like those in Burma. We will all regret the huge profit we earn cannot swap back the lives of the death.

Robert, our installation labour cost for solar panel only 4 hundreds pounds flat price no matter how. Labour is the most profitable product in capitalism as pointed out by Karl Marx.

If we a set of well educated people with high paid wage in the society could NOT offer this to help the environment, how do we suppose the poor with the low skills does.

Hope the UK flood not happening again.

]]> Comment on Why we do need solar systems by yuning http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/why-we-do-need-solar-systems/#comment-738 yuning Sat, 10 May 2008 00:59:34 +0000 http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/?p=263#comment-738 Robert, " You may need a car but you don’t need a Rolls Royce. You may need a home but you don’t need a palace. You may need a bowl of rice or a loaf of bread but you don’t need a feast. You may need a water heating system but you don’t need a carbon dioxide emission device that pollutes particulates into the atmosphere as it burns fuel that will soon run out. " your writing is a joy to read. " you may need a quality solar thermal but you dont need an expensive one you may need to make a living but you dont need to be greed and dishonest you may need a success but you dont need to cheat " Robert,

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You may need a car but you don’t need a Rolls Royce.
You may need a home but you don’t need a palace.
You may need a bowl of rice or a loaf of bread but you don’t need a feast.
You may need a water heating system but you don’t need a carbon dioxide emission device that pollutes particulates into the atmosphere as it burns fuel that will soon run out.
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your writing is a joy to read.

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you may need a quality solar thermal but you dont need an expensive one
you may need to make a living but you dont need to be greed and dishonest
you may need a success but you dont need to cheat
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]]> Comment on Uranium and being kind to Kazakhstan by Peter Marc Burke http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/uranium-and-being-kind-to-kazakhstan/#comment-737 Peter Marc Burke Fri, 09 May 2008 21:20:31 +0000 http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/?p=259#comment-737 The CO2 / kWhr calculation is hard to conclude from the start as you show to the end when this electricity passes through electric meters and it is measured as kwhr however even this could be over optimistic because of losses in the usage of this energy for example to heat water and one only has to look at experiments to measure the specific heat capacity of water there are lots of losses occurring. Solar thermal wins not just because it is cleaner but because it works better and makes more financial sense. However it [solar thermal] does not make handy quantities plutonium to make warheads with. The CO2 / kWhr calculation is hard to conclude from the start as you show to the end when this electricity passes through electric meters and it is measured as kwhr however even this could be over optimistic because of losses in the usage of this energy for example to heat water and one only has to look at experiments to measure the specific heat capacity of water there are lots of losses occurring. Solar thermal wins not just because it is cleaner but because it works better and makes more financial sense.
However it [solar thermal] does not make handy quantities plutonium to make warheads with.

]]> Comment on Uranium and being kind to Kazakhstan by Peter Marc Burke http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/uranium-and-being-kind-to-kazakhstan/#comment-736 Peter Marc Burke Fri, 09 May 2008 21:06:31 +0000 http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/?p=259#comment-736 Borat would be so proud to see his country Kazakhstan so high in this league table, above the USA...! Borat would be so proud to see his country Kazakhstan so high in this league table, above the USA…!

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