COMMISSIONED in 1968 by the Central Electricity Generating Board, Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station’s primary task was to produce two gigawatts of reliable power – not the maximisation of profits of our current ‘renewables’. It did this successfully until Monday but was closed (Mail), like all of our coal-fired power stations, because Read more
UK politicians and those of the green persuasion love to flaunt their green credentials and monotonously demand that we must save the planet by buying electric vehicles and heat pumps, eating less meat, walking or cycling, taking the bus or train and not flying or taking foreign holidays. All this Read more
Giant flywheels are to be installed around the UK to minimise the risk of blackouts as the power system goes carbon-free. Flywheels are energy storage systems that use surplus electricity to accelerate a massive metal “wheel”, thereby turning it into mechanical energy. To avoid energy losses, the wheels are kept Read more
Herald letters ARE three significant closures this week merely virtuesignalling to a disinterested world how we alone are reducing our relatively minimal emissions in the unrealistic hope of reaching net zero without regard to the inevitable damaging consequences to jobs, living standards, national security and our economy generally? The first Read more