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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Solar Investment: Conflicting Views?
Posted on September 06, 2008
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-bill savings that would be incurred. The upshot was we didn't bother. There are conflicting views, however, with the Rics (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) saying that solar panels are...
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