Britain is headed for power cuts in the next 3 – 5 years
First published by The Energy Event, October 2012“Britain is headed for power cuts in the next 3 – 5 years”, says forecaster James Woudhuysen. So what is contributing to the problem of current low levels of energy production and what are the big challenges we need to tackle?
James states his concerns regarding the current discussions on energy and discusses the imminent problem of power cuts that are likely to occur in the next 3 – 5 years. James believes that there is too much focus on sources of energy and not enough on finding new ways of producing it cheaply. Energy production should advance through serious capital investment, rather than labour-intensive methods.
He adds that there is too much delay. So, for example, decisions on nuclear investment and development are proceeding at a snail’s pace and there is ongoing hysteria around shale gas. The result is that we aren’t achieving anywhere near the levels of energy production we need to meet demand… or at a cost consumers want.
James is, however, optimistic that the new generations of engineers coming through universities will adopt a less risk averse approach… a more can, rather than can’t, do attitude.
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Painting: Thomas Couture, A SLEEPING JUDGE, 1859
Innovators I like
Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls
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