Energy Posts
Ed Miliband’s Net Zero agenda will leave Britain in the dark
Energy companies are already warning their customers about the power cuts to come
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Miliband’s Net Zero militancy is a disaster in the making
His ban on North Sea oil and gas drilling has exposed his contempt for British industry and workers
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Forget Brexit – Net Zero is the real threat to the car industry
Extreme green targets pose an existential threat to UK carmakers
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Labour’s green extremism will leave Britain in the dark
Keir Starmer’s plan to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2030 is insane
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Net Zero is killing British industry
Port Talbot steelworks is just the latest casualty of our elites’ climate-change crusade
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British steelmaking won’t survive Net Zero
The transition to eco-friendly steel is already threatening thousands of livelihoods
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Why wind power won’t cut our energy bills
Ignore the misinformation from the green lobby – Net Zero is a financial catastrophe
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Now Greta is protesting against wind farms
Not even renewable energy is safe from the deluded eco-activists
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How the war in Gaza could fuel the next energy crisis
The West is woefully unprepared for another oil and gas supply shock
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The pain of Net Zero is coming sooner than you think
The UK’s proposed bans on boilers and petrol cars will be economically devastating
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Why oil and gas are here to stay
The clean-energy transition is based on magical thinking
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How Net Zero will punish ordinary people
Households are paying a heavy price for our elites’ green dogma
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The EU is deepening the energy crisis
Brussels’ Net Zero obsession will make Europe poorer, colder and darker
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Lights Out: Is the EU failing on energy policy?
Let’s first remind ourselves of a very simple truth: the modern world is built on energy
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The shocking incompetence of Ofgem
Energy companies are breaking into people’s homes – and the regulator is looking the other way
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Labour’s eco-aristocracy
Ed Miliband’s green policies would amount to a massive bung to the wealthy
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The green elites are living in dreamland
Their ‘green industrial revolution’ is simply never going to happen
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Net Zero is a threat to energy security
The UK’s new energy ministry is grappling with two contradictory goals
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Why the public has gone cold on heat pumps
The UK’s Net Zero boiler-replacement scheme has been a complete flop
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Keir Starmer’s green war on workers
A Labour government would sacrifice jobs, growth and energy security to Net Zero
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Energy rationing is never acceptable
The UK government’s energy-saving campaign is an admission of failure
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Why Sizewell C must go ahead
Failure to invest in nuclear power will lead to more energy crises in future
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The madness of the ‘15-minute city’
The green agenda is taking inspiration from the illiberal days of lockdown
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Blackouts: another dark consequence of Net Zero
Energy rationing is an integral feature of the green agenda
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Why Britain is on the brink of blackouts
Complacency and green virtue-signalling have wreaked havoc with our energy supplies
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The UK is squandering its gas reserves
Amid soaring prices and talk of blackouts, we need to get serious about energy
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Net Zero is a Stalinist fantasy
The UK government is imposing ever more drastic and coercive measures to meet its carbon targets
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Price caps won’t solve the energy crisis
We need to stop tinkering with tariffs and start scaling up nuclear power
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The energy transition we need
It’s time to drop the green pieties and invest in cheap and plentiful energy for all
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Scrapping green taxes is not enough
Net Zero is the real driver of soaring energy bills
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Surge pricing for energy is a dreadful idea
In its crazed pursuit of Net Zero, the government is bringing back electricity rationing
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We need energy security – not Net Zero
The government is too beholden to green fantasies to take our energy needs seriously
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This energy crisis has deeper roots than Ukraine
We are paying a heavy price for decades of policy failures
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James on talkRADIO TV discussing COP26 and Carbon Net Zero
James on the Kevin O’Sullivan show, talkRADIO TV, 5 November 2021, discussing COP26, Net Zero and the climate change agenda
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Renewables won’t keep the lights on
The government’s clean-energy targets are a recipe for more shortages
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Net Zero will take over our lives
The new energy White Paper will force us to obsess over the minutiae of everyday energy consumption
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The heat pump revolution: extracting power from the people
The climate technocrats’ posturing over heat pumps will be expensive, impractical and invasive
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The prince and the profiteers
Prince Charles has found a new role for himself as a globe-trotting convener of ‘green finance’
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Net zero carbon emissions by 2050
Sky News debate with Amy Mount on the UK Government’s pledge to reach Net Zero in carbon emissions by 2050
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Climate change report
Sky News discussion on the latest report by the government Committee on Climate Change with Amy Mount from Greener UK and James Woudhuysen
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Climate change and the need for energy R&D
Sky News discussion on climate change and the need for energy R&D
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Hinkley Point and the fear of nuclear
Delaying building a new power station is a brake on progress.
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Another fracking melodrama
For the first time, American scientists have published a paper showing that wastewater from a shale-gas well and a coalbed methane site, disposed of by injecting it into a deep well, has reached a surface stream.
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Mass wind and solar? They’re 25 years away
After COP21, the Paris conference on climate change, it’s time to puncture Green euphoria about renewable energy
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Our hero: Gensets provide critical power where it’s needed
After April, when Nepal suffered its worst earthquake in 80 years, the technology made it to the front page of the New York Times.
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Fracking with George Monbiot
Matthew Taylor brings together James Woudhuysen and George Monbiot for a head-to-head discussion on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for the the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Agree to differ‘.
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People, your TVs are too big!
Earlier this year, Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat secretary of state for energy, hit a new low in proposals to deal with Britain’s inadequate and pricey energy supply.
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Making the case for shale gas and oil
Both advocates and critics of fracking have it wrong. Also, both use the wrong word.
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British environmentalists love Germany’s energy policies
British environmentalists love Germany’s energy policies. Mistake!
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The Big Six aren’t to blame for high energy prices
Have Britain’s main suppliers of energy abused their monopoly position?
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IT and US energy: grids go smart, armed forces go solar
The US Navy is more committed to solar energy supply than mainstream investors, who prefer to massage energy demand – downwards.
Read the full article...Letter from Lebanon: powering up for a brighter future
The Middle East needs new energy, not Europe telling it to save the stuff.
Read the full article...How to make blackouts a thing of the past
The key to providing for our energy needs is technological development, not sterile rows about energy sources.
Read the full article...Innovation in energy: expressions of a crisis
Using academic, journalistic and statistical sources, this paper situates energy innovation in historical context before describing the current sclerosis of Western energy R&D.
Read the full article...All this carbon-cutting is a waste of energy
Neither Boris Johnson nor Ken Livingstone is willing to deliver the uninterrupted, cheap energy London needs.
Read the full article...Fracking and Fukushima: our energy security fears
When I hear the phrase “energy security”, I reach for my revolver’.
Read the full article...The causes of Fukushima: report of Annual symposium of the World Nuclear Association, 2011
The power of the nucleus had little to do with What Went Wrong at the TEPCO nuclear reactors in 2011
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BP’s Deepwater Horizon and Loren Steffy, Drowning in oil
BP became so obsessed with irrational management practices and petty health-and-safety measures that it overlooked the real safety of its workers
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The Lib-Cons ‘energy policy’ is to encourage people to use less of it rather than to generate more of it.
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The world needs abundant, cheap, clean energy
In an extract from their new book, Energise!, James Woudhuysen and Joe Kaplinsky argue that climate change is real, but the answer is to invest boldly in forms of power supply not moralise about personal consumption.
Read the full article...Still no clear policy on nuclear energy
New Labour’s commitment to nuclear is half-hearted at best, and goes hand in hand with more policing of our energy use.
Read the full article...New Labour’s power vacuum
The UK government’s obsession with energy self-sufficiency and renewables looks set to lead to blackouts in the next few years.
Read the full article...The green man’s burden
Why is Greenpeace calling on the UK to set an example to nations like China, when the Chinese are cleaning up faster than us?
Read the full article...The myth that New Labour is pro-nuclear
Everyone from big business to greens imagines that British government policy favours nuclear energy. It doesn’t.
Read the full article...Energising the debate about climate change
Energise! eschews the misanthropic green ideology of restraint and explains how human action can solve a human-made problem.
Read the full article...We need cheap, abundant energy
Here’s how we get it: more R&D, and fewer red herrings. Co authored with Joe Kaplinsky.
Read the full article...Race to be green saps creative energy
I had to laugh. Was this new and epic Cabinet split about whether the Home Office really can and should equip the police with personal organisers in time for the 2012 Olympics?
Read the full article...Knocking the wind out of the energy debate
The UK government department in charge of energy is strangling urgently needed generation schemes in red tape, precaution and ceaseless consultation.
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Greenpeace and the courts have delayed New Labour’s energy white paper. That’s no victory – for you, me or the planet. Co-written with Joe Kaplinsky
Read the full article...The EU’s post-industrial revolution
José Manuel Barroso’s new energy policy represents a retreat from development driven by fear.
Read the full article...UK energy rules leave managers cold
In line with the EU’s Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, UK regulations require a whole-building approach to calculate office carbon emissions.
Read the full article...A self-defeating argument for nuclear power
The UK government’s energy review is more interested in changing the public’s behaviour than in putting a positive case for nuclear.
Read the full article...Windmills of the mind
Why the UK government’s energy policy is more concerned with changing our behaviour and mindset than with actually supplying more energy.
Read the full article...In defence of individual ecofreedom
Government campaigns against running domestic electrical gadgets on standby are unnecessary, and will likely prove unpopular.
Read the full article...Blowing up Chernobyl
Twenty years on from the explosion, the anti-nuclear lobby is still playing fast and loose with the facts about casualties.
Read the full article...Things to come – Tower power
Solar power demands direct sunlight, one of the reasons why the Government’s alternative energies are now directed at wind turbines.
Read the full article...Things to come … Methane-powered mobiles
Recharging phone, laptop and PDA batteries is a pain, and the coming of power-hungry mobile broadband will make it worse.
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KOWTOWING TO BEIJING DEPT: Whaddya know? Keir Starmer finally discovers his ‘growth agenda’! As my piece also suggests, the portents don't look good for Labour to protect the UK from CCP operations https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-pares-back-secretive-china-strategy-review-seeking-closer-ties-2024-12-16/
"By all means, keep up the salty, anti-Starmer tweets, Elon. But kindly keep your mega-bucks to yourself."
At the #ECB, convicted lawyer #ChristineLagarde has just beaten inflation, oh yes. But #AndrewBailey's many forecasts of lower interest rates have excelled again, with UK inflation now at 2.6 per cent
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