What's especially shocking about the coronavirus outbreak in Italy - a lack...
The news from Italy today is especially tragic given that the daily death toll rose to 133. But there's something that makes this look even more awful - and that's the very high ratio between deaths...
View ArticleWhy using hydrogen to supply heating would be a terrible choice
The natural gas industry is now campaigning to save its business by extolling the alleged virtues of converting gas heating to supply by 'blue' hydrogen. This blue hydrogen production would be done...
View ArticleRenewable energy likely to soar upwards in 2020 as proportion of UK...
Now, I must start by saying that I'd far far prefer renewable energy increases NOT to occur if it magically prevented further deaths in this dreadful epidemic. However simple analysis of trends does...
View ArticleThe Times newspaper; a paragon of hypocrisy about free speech?
The Times exposed its own hypocrisy today when it said that universities 'should not turn a blind eye to baseless propaganda' - ignoring its own promotion of climate scepticism through publishing the...
View ArticleEDF in last gasp drive to get blank cheque for Sizewell C
EDF is struggling, but may well still succeed, to persuade the Government to give it what amounts to a blank cheque to build Sizewell C nuclear power plant by wrapping it up in an opaque mechanism...
View ArticleNuclear Power switches off wind power in Scotland
A report published today by a newly formed pressure group, 100percentrenewableuk, says that that nuclear power is instrumental in forcing the National Grid to turn off large amounts of wind power in...
View ArticleBlue hydrogen - a Trojan horse from oil and gas
The announcement by the German Government that their hydrogen strategy will include support for so-called blue hydrogen as a transitional measure must be regarded as a huge setback for a sustainable...
View ArticleIs ageism to blame for Sweden's covid debacle?
On June 17th, as new covid cases declined in the UK, Sweden's increased and Sweden posted more new C virus cases than the UK. This is despite the fact that the UK has 6.5 times as many people. This is...
View ArticleEDF sanctioned by French Regulators for not coming clean to investors over...
The chickens are coming home to roost for EDF for their questionable decision to go ahead with building Hinkley C - a decision they took despite the lack of certainty over whether they would get...
View ArticleThe populists are the deep state now! - and they are becoming unstuck
It is reported in the Financial Times by Jim Pickard that Dominic Cummings, a favourite of the Trumpian populists, has blocked implementation of Conservative manifesto promises to spend £9.2 billion on...
View ArticleTen years to save the planet - Jonathon Porritt's new book
Dave Toke has interviewed Jonathon Porritt about his new book 'Hope in Hell - a decade to confront the climate emergency'.Porritt talks about 100 per cent renewable energy, opposition to nuclear power,...
View ArticleWhy we should enthusiastically back solar farms in the countryside
As far as the prospect of solar farms in the countryside are concerned, I simply say 'the more the merrier'. I must confess to be dismayed at the attitudes of some environmentalists who don't like...
View ArticleHow Scottish independence will boost green energy
If, as now seems likely, Scotland becomes independent in the next 5 years, green energy should get a major boost. A Scottish Government will have the unconstrained ability to offer contracts to supply...
View ArticleWhy we shouldn't head back to the offices just to save the property owners...
Big Capitalism rarely gets as self-mocking as when it is crying out for state subsidies to preserve the failing out-of-date technologies of its biggest zombie corporations. It seems to me especially...
View ArticleWhy we're not heading for a 'no-deal' Brexit - the Brits will cave in and...
I'm a student of the 'new normal' in politics - that's the post so-called populist revolution new normal - which means that the UK will do much the same in January with a last gasp concession to EU...
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View ArticleAcademics face pension value meltdown because of doomsday inflation pension...
As the UK faces the possibility of hyperinflation, any retired or soon-to-be retiring academic faces the annihilation of the value of their pension. With the Government poised to print vast sums of...
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