Would You Trust This Man ?
Ed Miliband is today assuring us that New Nuclear Power will be safe, and that we will all have a say in the planning process – so tantalising us with the idea that we will be able to influence the...
View ArticleFree Energy : The Nuclear Power Dead-End
“Sustainable Development” is a phrase with two distinct meanings. When people trained in Economics think about what “Sustainable Development” means, they normally assume that Nature’s continuing bounty...
View ArticleToilet Power Trumps Nuclear
Image Credit : NowPublic I still don’t know what all the fuss is about Nuclear Power, when the BioMethane from all the toilets, farm slurry, hospital and food waste in the country could trounce the...
View ArticleNuclear Consultation
The UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change has already made up its mind about a new fleet of Nuclear Power plants. However, they had the good grace to publish an open online consultation on the...
View ArticleGreen Energy : Stuck in the Sidings
If you can imagine the engine for new, renewable and sustainable Energy systems as a train which should by now be thundering down the tracks, get this : it left the depot only to get stuck in the...
View ArticleClimate Union : Sharing Principles
Image Credit : Gilbert & George, “Nettle Dance”, White Cube I’m in the Climate Union. Are You ? Soon we could all be, if the expansionist plans of a group of social campaigners come to fruition....
View ArticleOn Hot Rocks
Nuclear Power is on the rocks – hot radioactive rocks. There have been a string of accidents, fires and outages in the last couple of years, probably due to cost-cutting and lack of investment in new...
View ArticleClimate Weak
An e-mail trail with a certain amount of political content… from: Kate Shepherd date: Tue, Aug 10, 2010 subject: Climate Week Hello Jo It was lovely to speak with you today about Climate Week and I’d...
View ArticleTu Me Manques, David Miliband
I don’t know about you, but I’m missing David Miliband from the political fish-eat-fish top table already. If he were to ask me, which he won’t, but anyway, if he did, I would recommend that he starts...
View ArticleGeorge Monbiot : Wrong Choice
Data Source : IEA via ESDS This chart shows why George Monbiot, Mark Lynas and Stephen Tinsdale have all plumped for the wrong choice – new Nuclear Power cannot deliver more electricity or reduce...
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