£9.5 Billion Levy on Carbon Capture and Storage Incentive
All friends of the earth will be pleased to hear that Britain is going ahead with plans to build a new generation of clean coal power stations across the United Kingdom. The downside however is the news that the British public will once again be the ones [...]
Archive for the ‘Energry’ Category
19 Nov
Clean Coal On Its Way At A Price
20 May
Green Energy in 2009 – Do you still care? (Poll)
We are in the midst of unprecendented economic times. The strain on every household and business in the UK is currently being sorely tested. Monthly bills including telephone, broadband, food and drink are all becoming more and more difficult to manage for many people. With this in mind, where do your energy bills feature in [...]
6 Mar
Green Hydro Energy
Hydropower
Of the renewable energy sources Hydropower is the most established of them all. Hydropower has been used for centuries when the likes of water mills where used to generate power but in the last couple of decades turbines have been used to convert the flow of water into electricity, generally the modern systems is a [...]
27 Oct
Johnny Ball backs nuclear power – is he right?
Writing in The Sun last month, childhood TV hero Johnny Ball outlined his opinion that Nuclear Power is the way forward for UK energy. Ball maintains that nuclear tech has come a long way in the last 20 years, coining the phrase ‘New Nuclear’ for this latest generation.
…. the French are already 85 per cent [...]
12 Sep
Green Energy Evangelist – Paris Hilton
We are aware that we are behind the curve on this but the recent Paris Hilton spoof response video had us in stitches. The notorious hotel heiress seems more clued up in Green Energy that most of the world’s major policy makers!
See some of the highlights here:
4 Feb
Renewable power video
Good little video on renewable power
Although it is good to recycle our waste, it still has it’s flaws and we are also a bit away from getting it rolled out across all major countries.
For now we need to stick with our renewable energies such as hydro and wind power.
Hydro provider
Original source [...]
28 Jan
Wind farms rejected on the Scottish isles
Scottish Government refuse wind farm application?
The BBC1 announced today the Scottish Government has turned down the application for the Lewis Wind Farm2 containing 181 turbines on the Western Isles of Scotland.
Despite the full support of the Western Isle Council, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar3, the project planned by Lewis Wind Power Limited has had it’s application [...]
9 Jan
Electricity provider offers fixed price on green energy
Southern electric energy provider offers fixed rates on fuel prices including renewable energy tariffs. Making greener fuels more affordable!
This week some of the UK’s biggest energy providers announce a minimum increase of 19% on gas and electricity bills. This most recent price hike has been blamed on the mounting prices of wholesale energy. The price [...]
