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Burning Things Is Wasteful
Posted on June 18th, 2010 No comments
Centre for Alternative Technology
Burning things wastes a lot of energy – even burning waste.
1. Plain Old Inefficiency
The systems and infrastructure for the generation and distribution of electricity in the United Kingdom is extremely poor, nigh on immorally wasteful. See the diagram above from the Zero Carbon Britain 2030 report :-
There are so many things that could be done to improve on that enormous loss of energy, and save on Carbon Dioxide Emissions at the same time.
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Fossil Fuels versus Corn Ethanol
Posted on June 14th, 2010 No comments
So, digging up dirty old decaying fish causes massive coastland and marine pollution. Would bioethanol from corn be better ?
http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2010/06/14/is-bps-oil-spill-an-opportunity-for-the-ethanol-lobby/
Not really. First there’s the amount of land required to grow all that corn to burn in all those tanks (see diagram at top of page).
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Glaciers Melting in the Himalayas
Posted on January 17th, 2010 3 commentsThe satellites and cameras do not lie : glaciers in the Himalayas are melting, and the loss of any part of this “third pole” ice cover threatens the freshwater supply for billions.
This weekend’s Media clamour on the subject focuses on the trail of a mis-attribution of a claim regarding the complete meltdown of the mountain glaciers.
Just because somebody’s got their references wrong, doesn’t mean that the glaciers have magically not been melting after all.
Yes, the IPCC process has failed to pick up this prediction error. No, it doesn’t throw the whole of the IPCC reports into the trash can.
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Meltdown : Painting by Numbers
Posted on September 27th, 2009 No comments -
Antarctic Meltdown – Where’s The Panic ?
Posted on April 5th, 2009 No commentsI can’t see global panic taking hold. Well, I never expected mass hysteria actually, but I would have thought that news of accelerating Antarctic meltdown would have brought out the doom-mongering commentators in droves. But I don’t see much sign of that.
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