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energy surplus generation - energy from greenhouses
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british bearskins attacked by animal leftists - Xavier Since at least 1997, the British Army has been looking for synthetic replacements for the tall, black bearskin hats worn by British guardsmen on parade.
However, this year, as a birthday present for the UK queen, animal activists have staged various, sometimes bare if not bear, protests. They claim that the bears are being killed for their pelts, and that the bears are suffering during this cull. The animal activists, as usual, forget reality. Firstly, the bears are culled in Canada for population control, whether or not the British Army buys some of the skins. No longer being hunted, the bear population grows beyond what the wild parts of Canada can support. Without culling, the bears would be, at best, malnourished and, at worst, they would die slowly from starvation.
Also from Chthonic Wildlife Research:
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joining the dots - food, fuel, water, oil and poverty This is a useful site for tracking grain positions:
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bush designates largest ocean conservation area in history
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un (unep's global deserts outlook) press release - advance notice
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mapping the diminishing extent of the world’s ancient forests
From another Greenpeace page giving more detailed comment on the mapping project of the remaining intact large forests in the world.
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growing competition between fuel and food
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chinese worrying about food supply effects of global warming the web address for this article is https://www.abelard.org/news/ecology0604.php#china_food_210506 | |
updated: shareholders put pressure on exxon
the fossil fuel industry tries to make us love their pollution Two TV ads now set to go out in the USA [linked from page linked above]- looks like a tobacco and oil interests’ front. With hidden funding and the eco-“villain of the month” - just who is telling us that more carbon dioxide is good? the web address for this article ishttps://www.abelard.org/news/ecology0604.php#co2_ads_190506 | |
another typical socialist innumerate - ruddock talks absolute rot on energy And the Fossil Times prints it!!
In a typical modern economy, approximately one third of primary energy is converted for electricity. This conversion is approximately 38% efficient. If Britain’s electricity consumption is, in fact, as high as 18% of energy consumed, that will be taking around 18 / .38 = 47.37% of primary power in the UK. If, on the other hand, Joan Ruddock is claiming only 18% of primary energy is used for electricity (a ludicrous figure for an advanced economy), then Britain would be producing less than 7% [18 x .38%] of power usage in electricity. I choose to believe the figure she is quoting, but not understanding, is this first one, that of taking nearly half UK energy for electricity production. Britain is, in fact, obtaining over 20% of its electricity from nuclear (ok, let’s use Ruddock’s 19% figure). If 12% of that disappears, Britain will need primary inputs of 12 / .38 = 31.5% of the 47.37% of primary energy to replace it. That is 15% more primary energy from somewhere! What does Ruddock intend to do? Import another 15% of current levels in coal or oil or gas? And that being against a world background of diminishing world supplies, and therefore at greatly increased prices? Or has she fantasies about windmills? Oh yes, of course, she has. My own expectation is a very fast expansion of electricity ‘demands’. Therefore, it will not be just 18% by the time we reach 2020. Ruddock’s ludicrous comments go on:
Again, this is absolute rot. Build times in China are around 5-7 years and falling. The main reasons for long build times have been government inadequacies and lawyer feasts. On and on goes the usual litany of the innumerate pseudo-greens. No costing for anything, just arm-waving about biomass etc. Where is this alleged biomass actually going to come from? How much (more!) land is to be covered with monocultures? Where are her calculations for the fertiliser, herbicides, biocides, tractor fuel, refinery and transport costs. Joan Ruddock goes on:
and that is just her blue-sky claim from a ‘government task force’ and just for ‘electricity demand’. Then there is her ‘micro-generation’. What does she expect? A generating station in every flat? or even front garden? Even if do-able, what will that cost in capital equipment for the country at large? She still goes on:
God knows where she got this wibble. Has she the faintest idea of the efficiency and costs and natural resources required for photovoltaics? Has she the faintest idea of the level of tax subsidies to reach these results? Or does she just not care? Does she have any idea of the limits to the use of wind power, let alone ‘solar energy’ (whatever she thinks that means!) as back up to electrical power generation? Let her produce figures that are backed in detail, not this arm-waving and innumeracy. She arrogantly proclaims that “The Prime Minister is wrong”. No, it is she who is wrong. Wrong to write this airy-fairy waffle without detailed costing or understanding, and the Fossil Times is wrong to print this misleading dribble. I do not have armies of researchers working for me. I do not have pseudo-green lobbyists pushing this agenda. I am not even an energy expert. Why are we paying people like this woman as an MP to take national decisions of great import? related material https://www.abelard.org/news/ecology0604.php#socialist_innumerate_190506 | |
the joys of ‘development’ in spain the web address for this article is https://www.abelard.org/news/ecology0604.php#spanish_desert_130506 | |
bush
on the environment - the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel oil age
The Middle East loons should read that and weep. When the United States of America decides to act, the world changes. the web address for this article is https://www.abelard.org/news/ecology0604.php#bush_alternative_fuels_240406 | |
living above our environmental means? - xavier Take, for example, the United Kingdom:
The New Economics Foundation has also produced a calendar [free as a 13-page .pdf download] showing when, during the year, different countries are no longer self-sufficient and start using the resources of other countries. the web address for this article is |