On: 180,000 E.On business customers to face energy price hike
Businesses are being put at risk by big 6
It now seems that with all of the big 6 major electricity suppliers announcing significant price hikes - it will most definately have a knock-on effect upon businesses.
I recently read about small businesses are being plunged into fuel poverty up and down the country.
I used to be one of those businesses who were trapped into a contract with E.on and I'm glad I moved away from the big 6 and their horrific price rises to an independent - E4B.
Now I'm protected from the big 6's price rises!!
Posted by: queen bee, 03 Sep 2008
>Read the full article and comments On: Are energy utilities "doing an IBM" by ignoring solar opportunity?
Good find!
Yes it seems to be true. They are following IBM path.
Sad indeed!
www.its2hot.in - A2Z of Environmental Discussion
Posted by: Natureguy, 02 Sep 2008
>Read the full article and comments On: Who will pick up the tab for climate-tinkering technologies?
Iron fertilization
The so called moritorium on iron fertilization is yet another example of spin on this topic and is a result of a sinister and untruthful campaign against this field of research by green organizations with vested interests in retaining the crisis of climate change.
The facts show that this attack was a classical strawman smear campaign against the R&D work of Planktos. The WWF, Greenpeace, and a raft of other "green" organizations spread a constant stream of lies into the media and public about the proposed research scale projects of Planktos. Take for example the press release of WWF which suggested the iron research of Planktos far to the west of the Galapagoes endangered that ecosystem. Read thier release at this link.. http://tinyurl.com/5arlkb
The complete distortion of the facts in the WWF release stand in stark opposition to the fact that the Galapagos Islands themselves leach over a million tonnes of iron each year into the seas enveloping those islands. This natural iron from the Galapagos stimulates a vast plankton bloom and marine oasis effect that makes this such a special environment. The fact is that the proposed Planktos research was intending to use 50-100 tonnes of natural iron mineral dust in a region far to the west of the islands and very near where two previous, unopposed, and internationally operated and acclaimed iron restoration bloom experiments had been conducted. In those experiments and in the vast natural iron stimulated bloom that is created by the Galapagos Islands no report has ever been made of the sort of harmful effects WWF cited to scare the media and public into fearing and opposing the work of Planktos. This was not an isolated example of what took place in the smear campaign against Planktos, many many more examples of similar lies by these green organizations are readily exposed thanks to the internet.
What resulted was that the ruthless smear campaign stopped the work of the public company Planktos Corp. last year and delayed efforts to attempt to discover whether we humans have any hope of saving our oceans and our planet from reverting to a primitive biological ecology similar to what existed 600 million years ago before green plants evolved and made it possible for animal life including species to come into existence.
Consider how important this work is for life on this small blue planet. The crisis facing the oceans is not a slow moving one like that of the effects of CO2 that is creating climate change. The hundreds of gigatonnes of fossil CO2 already in our atmosphere and dissolving into the surface ocean is a gigatonne carbon bomb that is alone capable of changing ocean chemistry and ecology beyond repair. Think of this carbon bomb like the chemical shock treatments used to eradicate slime (life) in swimming pools. In such treatments the normal swimming pool chemistry is 'shocked' with a super dose of chemicals in a single day. The microscopic life in the pool cannot adapt to this shock as is eradicated. The same super dose of fossil CO2 now impacting the oceans, in this first of our gigatonne carbon bombs, is having the same effect on an oceanic scale. Already 17% of all green plants in the North Atlantic have been pushed to extinction, the number is 26% in the North Pacific, and 50% in the sub-tropical tropical Pacific. The rate of this extinction of ocean plant life is accelerating very fast as fossil CO2 from the first carbon bomb already airborne changes the surface ocean water to carbonic acid via H2O+CO2=H2CO3. The energy of that carbon bomb is the 10-15 terawatts of energy it took to make that CO2. Only by matching the energetics of that chemistry do we have any hope of mitigating the deadly effects. Thanks to Mother Nature the green plants of the ocean can harvest the terawatts of solar energy and compete with that deadly acid reaction and convert the CO2 into living plants, life instead of death for the oceans and ourselves.
Are you still unsure? Consider the fact that the missing green plants of the oceans were, only 30 years ago, converting 4-5 billion tonnes (gigatonnes) of CO2 each year into ocean life instead of acidifying ocean death. The crisis of climate change is frequently quantified as being a problem of 6-8 billion tonnes to much CO2 each year accumulating in the air (and oceans). How might restoring those ocean plants be any different than restoring and protecting our rainforests from a rate of extinction that is far less severe than the rate of ocean plant extinction.
Sadly the smear campaigners continue by foisting false information and spin into the media exampled by the claim that there is a moritorium on this field of science when in fact the nations have all called for more research, exactly of the scale and character of that proposed by Planktos (now Planktos Science).
Posted by: Russ George, 01 Sep 2008
>Read the full article and comments On: Wind power bottleneck prolonged due to barge shortages
Self Installing Offshore Wind Turbine System Titan 200
Mr. Young, your reader should be aware of technology that elimnates the need for these costly and dependant service vessels, our Titan 200 is self installing, proven technology for curent water depths of 200 ft, it saves operator cost, time and is considerably more useful, http://tinyurl.com/6jx8n6 will demo the Titan.
Posted by: Douglas Hines, 01 Sep 2008
>Read the full article and comments On: Good Energy aims to boost customer uptake despite credit crunch
About time for clean energy
Great to see Good Energy making some money out of doing the right thing, but a shame that people are so confsed about what to invest in. Trouble is, as long as we have the PV parasites touting their questionable wares, we will be squandering our finite resources on a technology which is really not worth the candle.
OK I do have an axe to grind in that I really think it would b ebetter to invest in stuff that saves more CO2 and mony for less than a tenth of the price, although I have no personal financial interest (shame!):
http://www.microchap.info
Posted by: microchap, 30 Aug 2008
>Read the full article and comments
Businesses are being put at risk by big 6
It now seems that with all of the big 6 major electricity suppliers announcing significant price hikes - it will most definately have a knock-on effect upon businesses.
I recently read about small businesses are being plunged into fuel poverty up and down the country.
I used to be one of those businesses who were trapped into a contract with E.on and I'm glad I moved away from the big 6 and their horrific price rises to an independent - E4B.
Now I'm protected from the big 6's price rises!!
Posted by: queen bee, 03 Sep 2008
>Read the full article and comments On: Are energy utilities "doing an IBM" by ignoring solar opportunity?
Good find!
Yes it seems to be true. They are following IBM path.
Sad indeed!
www.its2hot.in - A2Z of Environmental Discussion
Posted by: Natureguy, 02 Sep 2008
>Read the full article and comments On: Who will pick up the tab for climate-tinkering technologies?
Iron fertilization
The so called moritorium on iron fertilization is yet another example of spin on this topic and is a result of a sinister and untruthful campaign against this field of research by green organizations with vested interests in retaining the crisis of climate change.
The facts show that this attack was a classical strawman smear campaign against the R&D work of Planktos. The WWF, Greenpeace, and a raft of other "green" organizations spread a constant stream of lies into the media and public about the proposed research scale projects of Planktos. Take for example the press release of WWF which suggested the iron research of Planktos far to the west of the Galapagoes endangered that ecosystem. Read thier release at this link.. http://tinyurl.com/5arlkb
The complete distortion of the facts in the WWF release stand in stark opposition to the fact that the Galapagos Islands themselves leach over a million tonnes of iron each year into the seas enveloping those islands. This natural iron from the Galapagos stimulates a vast plankton bloom and marine oasis effect that makes this such a special environment. The fact is that the proposed Planktos research was intending to use 50-100 tonnes of natural iron mineral dust in a region far to the west of the islands and very near where two previous, unopposed, and internationally operated and acclaimed iron restoration bloom experiments had been conducted. In those experiments and in the vast natural iron stimulated bloom that is created by the Galapagos Islands no report has ever been made of the sort of harmful effects WWF cited to scare the media and public into fearing and opposing the work of Planktos. This was not an isolated example of what took place in the smear campaign against Planktos, many many more examples of similar lies by these green organizations are readily exposed thanks to the internet.
What resulted was that the ruthless smear campaign stopped the work of the public company Planktos Corp. last year and delayed efforts to attempt to discover whether we humans have any hope of saving our oceans and our planet from reverting to a primitive biological ecology similar to what existed 600 million years ago before green plants evolved and made it possible for animal life including species to come into existence.
Consider how important this work is for life on this small blue planet. The crisis facing the oceans is not a slow moving one like that of the effects of CO2 that is creating climate change. The hundreds of gigatonnes of fossil CO2 already in our atmosphere and dissolving into the surface ocean is a gigatonne carbon bomb that is alone capable of changing ocean chemistry and ecology beyond repair. Think of this carbon bomb like the chemical shock treatments used to eradicate slime (life) in swimming pools. In such treatments the normal swimming pool chemistry is 'shocked' with a super dose of chemicals in a single day. The microscopic life in the pool cannot adapt to this shock as is eradicated. The same super dose of fossil CO2 now impacting the oceans, in this first of our gigatonne carbon bombs, is having the same effect on an oceanic scale. Already 17% of all green plants in the North Atlantic have been pushed to extinction, the number is 26% in the North Pacific, and 50% in the sub-tropical tropical Pacific. The rate of this extinction of ocean plant life is accelerating very fast as fossil CO2 from the first carbon bomb already airborne changes the surface ocean water to carbonic acid via H2O+CO2=H2CO3. The energy of that carbon bomb is the 10-15 terawatts of energy it took to make that CO2. Only by matching the energetics of that chemistry do we have any hope of mitigating the deadly effects. Thanks to Mother Nature the green plants of the ocean can harvest the terawatts of solar energy and compete with that deadly acid reaction and convert the CO2 into living plants, life instead of death for the oceans and ourselves.
Are you still unsure? Consider the fact that the missing green plants of the oceans were, only 30 years ago, converting 4-5 billion tonnes (gigatonnes) of CO2 each year into ocean life instead of acidifying ocean death. The crisis of climate change is frequently quantified as being a problem of 6-8 billion tonnes to much CO2 each year accumulating in the air (and oceans). How might restoring those ocean plants be any different than restoring and protecting our rainforests from a rate of extinction that is far less severe than the rate of ocean plant extinction.
Sadly the smear campaigners continue by foisting false information and spin into the media exampled by the claim that there is a moritorium on this field of science when in fact the nations have all called for more research, exactly of the scale and character of that proposed by Planktos (now Planktos Science).
Posted by: Russ George, 01 Sep 2008
>Read the full article and comments On: Wind power bottleneck prolonged due to barge shortages
Self Installing Offshore Wind Turbine System Titan 200
Mr. Young, your reader should be aware of technology that elimnates the need for these costly and dependant service vessels, our Titan 200 is self installing, proven technology for curent water depths of 200 ft, it saves operator cost, time and is considerably more useful, http://tinyurl.com/6jx8n6 will demo the Titan.
Posted by: Douglas Hines, 01 Sep 2008
>Read the full article and comments On: Good Energy aims to boost customer uptake despite credit crunch
About time for clean energy
Great to see Good Energy making some money out of doing the right thing, but a shame that people are so confsed about what to invest in. Trouble is, as long as we have the PV parasites touting their questionable wares, we will be squandering our finite resources on a technology which is really not worth the candle.
OK I do have an axe to grind in that I really think it would b ebetter to invest in stuff that saves more CO2 and mony for less than a tenth of the price, although I have no personal financial interest (shame!):
http://www.microchap.info
Posted by: microchap, 30 Aug 2008
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