Energy Balance
Energy Balance is a series of essays on the matter of future energy
provision for the world, particularly against the backdrop of "Peak
Oil", which the author Chris Rhodes has dubbed the "Oil Dearth" Era
when supplies of the cheap light crude oil, on which the modern age
of globalisation has been built, begin to run-short. All aspects are
considered: pollution, nuclear power, nuclear waste, global warming
(and its reality), renewable energy, coal liquefaction, the myth of
the putatuive "hydrogen economy", biofuel production, and the
essential underlying solution of energy saving on a huge scale, by
relocalising civilization into smaller essentially self-sustaining
communities provided for by local farms and businesses.
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Posted 2 days ago
There is a proverb, I believe of Chinese origin, that it is better to light a single candle than to sit and curse the darkness. The world is shocked by the clear exposure of the shaky foundations of
Posted 5 days ago
Nice to see that oil is back to $86 a barrel, and falling... trouble is it took a global stock market crash to accomplish it. This morning the British Chancellor, Alistair Darling, announced that 5
Posted 2 weeks ago
I submitted this as a letter to Chemistry World... maybe they will publish it next month. Anyway, it seems salient to the topic of this blog and I have raised this subject previously. If the industry
Posted 2 weeks ago
It was reported this morning in the Independent newspaper that massive amounts of methane are bubbling up from the Arctic depths as sub-sea permafrost in sediments melts. The essential principle is me
Posted 3 weeks ago
Following my last posting, I have been thinking further about biochar and the likelihood of it being used as a long-term form in which to store carbon captured from the atmosphere by photosynthesising
Posted 4 weeks ago
I have just attended the International Biochar conference in Newcastle (http://www.biochar-international.org/ibi2008conference.html). Newcastle is a lovely city with a real buzz to it and very friendl
Posted 5 weeks ago
We were thinking about putting solar-panels on the south-facing roof our our home-extension some years ago, but determined it would take about 20 years to pay-off the cost in terms of the electricity-
Posted 5 weeks ago
The term credit crunch is used loosely to describe an economic downturn, that might become a full-blown recession, and which indeed is linked in part to overgenerous lending of money to people who c
Posted 5 weeks ago
Blogger Yorkshireminer said... The trouble is with alternative tech is that there is such a long lead in time. And we don't have the time we have left it too late. What gets up my nose is that the
Posted 5 weeks ago
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