Millions of households at risk of smart meter snooping
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Consumers could get greater control over their energy usage and save money on their bills under plans for an energy smart data scheme. Smart data is the process...
View ArticleCOE Commissioner Attacks Fossil Fuels
By Paul Homewood Alan Smith – Church Estates Commissioner The Daily Telegraph has published a comment piece by Alan Smith, titled “Fossil fuel backers are becoming the real anti-capitalists” As...
View Article7000 Year Old Trees Uncovered High Up In The Rockies
By Paul Homewood A melting patch of ice in the Rockies is uncovering trees that were growing 7000 years ago: Significance Recent warming has decreased snow and ice cover and increased the...
View ArticleINEOS closes last remaining synthetic ethanol plant in the UK
By Paul Homewood h/t Jack Broughton Ineos have just issued this press release: INEOS closes last remaining synthetic ethanol plant in the UK Lack of energy strategy and high carbon taxes continue...
View ArticleEV Trucking
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness It takes a truck driver to demolish the EV truck argument:...
View ArticleElectric School Bus Destroyed In Fire In Ontario
By Paul Homewood Remember when Kamala Harris was extolling electric school buses? Fortunately nobody was injured when this one caught fire, but sooner or later there will be a tragedy: A school...
View ArticleWill blackouts come to Britain?
By Paul Homewood Freddie Sayers is joined by energy analyst Kathryn Porter to break down the National Grid numbers and find out how Net Zero might cause blackouts by 2030.
View Article£410 Million For Fusion Energy
By Paul Homewood More taxpayer money down the drain! https://www.gov.uk/government/news/plan-for-change-to-deliver-jobs-and-growth-in-uk-leading-fusion-industry Why does the idiot Miliband...
View ArticleMiliband Admits Heat Pumps May Never Be Cheaper Than Gas Boilers
By Paul Homewood https://www.heatpumps.org.uk/resources/statistics/ . Ed Miliband has admitted that heat pumps may always be more expensive than gas boilers. Sales of heat pumps remain pitifully low,...
View ArticleBattery Fire Disaster In California
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby From Mercury News: MOSS LANDING — Highway 1 was closed and evacuations were ordered in the community of Moss Landing and the Elkhorn Slough area after a major...
View ArticleNESO Must Come Clean
By Paul Homewood Kathryn Porter has the latest on the near blackouts last week: The National Energy System Operator (“NESO”) has been stung by my analysis of the blackouts near miss on 8 January,...
View ArticleForget About Nuclear War, Hot Weather Is Biggest Disaster, Say Standard
By Paul Homewood https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/london-heatwave-temperature-climate-change-b1205478.html The Cabinet Office has updated its National Risk Register, something they do each...
View ArticleAre Weather Warnings More Frequent
By Paul Homewood In YahooNews coverage of the Standard story on heatwaves, they have this poll: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/london-faces-frazzling-heatwave-over-080010295.html This is very...
View ArticleCan The CAN
By Paul Homewood https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3776 The Climate and Nature Bill has its second reading this week. Its objective is to reduce UK emissions, including imported ones, to close to...
View ArticleBVRLA warns of coming EV residual value storm
By Paul Homewood I’ve been warning about this for a long time: The FleetNews report referred to is here. As the report points out, leasing companies have managed to cope so far because they are...
View ArticleNESO In Wonderland
By Paul Homewood As part of their Clean Power 2030 report, NESO did some modelling of what generation might look like in 2030. It covered a 7-day period in each season, based on increased renewable...
View ArticleIt’s Going To Be Windy!
By Paul Homewood The Met Office is warning of the “strongest winds of the year” this week! Given that we are only three weeks into the year, that is hardly remarkable!...
View ArticleRachel Reeves Backing Heathrow Expansion?
By Paul Homewood Huge row breaks out over reports that Reeves will back Heathrow third runway – The Standard The Standard is reporting that Rachel Reeves is preparing to give her support to a third...
View ArticleUK Worse Place In World To Put Solar Power
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby In 2020, the World Bank published this report on the potential of solar power:...
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