Tag: Nuclear
Why Sizewell C must go ahead
Failure to invest in nuclear power will lead to more energy crises in future
Read the full article...Why Britain is on the brink of blackouts
Complacency and green virtue-signalling have wreaked havoc with our energy supplies
Read the full article...Why our infrastructure is falling apart
Britain’s elites have given up on building for the future
Read the full article...The energy transition we need
It’s time to drop the green pieties and invest in cheap and plentiful energy for all
Read the full article...Renewables won’t keep the lights on
The government’s clean-energy targets are a recipe for more shortages
Read the full article...Will Aukus lead to conflict with China?
Tensions were already building in the Indo-Pacific
Read the full article...Hinkley, cybersecurity, China and the New Protectionism
To much controversy, Britain’s new prime minister, Theresa May, last month insisted on a fresh review of the building of two new nuclear reactors in the west of England.
Read the full article...Hinkley Point and the fear of nuclear
Delaying building a new power station is a brake on progress.
Read the full article...Britain is headed for power cuts in the next 3 – 5 years
“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?
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
Read the full article...Solar energy for British homes?
BBC Breakfast: News and debate on a new government initiative around solar energy for British homes. James debates this topic with Stephan Hale, Director of the Green Alliance.
Read the full article...Nuke the consultation – let’s have a debate!
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...Blowing up Chernobyl
Twenty years on from the explosion, the anti-nuclear lobby is still playing fast and loose with the facts about casualties.
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Good luck to the #farmers on their march today!
I probably don't need to tell you to wrap up warm. But please remember that no part of the UK's green agenda is your friend. All of it is intended to deprive you of your livelihood, one way or another. That is its design.
Brilliant piece by @danielbenami. RECOMMENDED
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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