Drax is spending £700 million on converting half its six units to burning biomass such as wood, instead of coal Tim Webb Coal plants are needed to prevent blackouts by backing up wind farms when the wind does not blow, according to the chief executive of Britain’s largest power station. Read more…
Developers have received payments of £19 million not to generate electricity from wind farms Paul McGee/Getty Images/Flickr Tim Webb Published at 12:01AM, August 26 2013 The amount of potential electricity from onshore wind farms that has been allowed to go untapped has more than doubled this year because the grid Read more…
America’s shale revolution is providing significant economic and environmental benefits; CO2 per capita lowest since 1964 http://www.thegwpf.org/americas-shale-revolution-co2-capita-lowest-1964/
In truth it says that the strong warming of 1978 to 1998 is in large part due to Pacific ocean cycles. We can now close the books on the silly CO2 science http://notrickszone.com/
By Ryan Crighton The UK Government has backed new technology that stops windfarms interfering with crucial radar systems – a development is being hailed as a “huge step” for renewable energy. Vattenfall has won crucial backing from the Department for Energy and Climate Change (Decc) for a technical solution that Read more…