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I’ve been running my car on 5% biodiesel blend for over a year now but after today I’m going back to 100% fossil-fuel diesel!
Maggie and Scargill between them
Mainteneance costs – but no need to go to the trouble and expense of mining coal if you want to expand coal-fired
Wind energy is only part of the solution but it”s a useful resource. The proposed London Array in the Thames estuary is intended to propvide electricity for 750,000 homes.
You need between 500 2MW turbines to produce the equivalent energy of one nuclear plant, which seems a lot if they are on land but offshore, where the wind is more reliable, they make sense. And they don’t have the decommissioning costs of nuclear.Yes but the tree huggers are right about the looming energy shortage. In the 70’s they were rigging up wind turbines made from scrap, now wind turbines are high tech engineering and big business.
This brings me back to the point that global warming is a red herring because we need to save energy and move to renewables anyway because of a much more tangible reason – fossil fuels are running out, or soon will be, and what’s left will have to be spread around a much more worldwide demand.
These contraptions are so dangerous that they are known on the bio-diesel circuit as ‘E-bay Bombs.’ If you’re looking for a cheaper way to blow yourself up, just sign up for the jihad.
No more so than a car battery (have you seen one of those explode? I have – luckily with no injury!), or an oxygen cylinder or even a jerrycan of petrol.
The problem with the global warming thing is that burning fossil fuels MIGHT be causing it or adding to it. But no definite link has been proved, we might just having an effect the same as smoking a cigarette next to a flame thrower.
If all the ice caps do melt, it’s true, we are in deep dog doo-doo. But if sea-ice melts, it has no net effect on sea levels as it’s already floating on the sea.
Sea levels have risen about 150 metres since the end of the last ice age about 20,000 years ago, and would rise by another 80 metres if the rest of the ice caps melt. But this process has been going on over this period, which is long in terms of the history of civilisation, but remarkably short in geological terms. There is growing archaeological evidence of human habitation being found from what is now the North Sea but was mostly dry land only 500 generations ago.
It takes weeks and often months, to build a bio-diesel processor and one has to deal with the legalities of tax and waste refuse certification.
Or spend £975 on one of these:
http://www.etruk.com/attachments/Image/etruk50mk2.jpgAre global temperatures still rising? All the hard statistics on this seemed to go quiet about 2 years ago. I know a couple of cool summers in UK is only part of the picture, but a year or two of cooler global temperatures will reduce the general trend.
Instead of arguing and posturing, the USA and Russia, as superpowers, should agree that instability in the Middle East and Central Asia is a threat to the world. They should agree to ‘carve up’ the area into zones into which each would be permitted to intervene pre-emptively. The USA in the Middle East and Russia in the former Soviet countries.
