tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5033865397341905972.post5135178602942559847..comments2024-03-26T09:35:47.151+00:00Comments on No PC Views: Footsore And Free Of Fancy No PChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17824446252611654550noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5033865397341905972.post-25836436036119588732014-10-03T22:26:25.354+01:002014-10-03T22:26:25.354+01:00Maybe we should hotfoot back to the coal face? Jus...Maybe we should hotfoot back to the coal face? Just joking of course - we have to face up to global warming.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5033865397341905972.post-15567935180514370122014-09-28T13:40:08.953+01:002014-09-28T13:40:08.953+01:00The mean global average of sunpower being a kilowa...The mean global average of sunpower being a kilowatt of energy per M² is sadly not that over the UK. All the houses around the Med have some sort of solar boilers for hot water, but have to supplement this in the Winter season with electric grid water heating. Maybe they could do more in that part of the world <i>(which raises the question about Southern economies failures again).</i> <br /><br />But in the populated and Industrial North, the Sun could only play some limited part of our power needs, and only in conjunction with other green schemes (tidal, geo-thermal, wind etc) ... however, lets be honest, we should have been building new nuclear plants as the mainstay of our next generation of electric generation. Its our failure to do this in the mid 1990's that has opened up the idea of 'Fracking' in the UK. So what seemed like a victory for the anti nuclear groups in getting Blair and Co to put off vital infrastructure decisions back then .... has resulted in something possibly far worse now. <br /><br />The fact is that the UK particularly, and Europe generally is facing an energy shortfall which has to be met quickly, or we will all risk huddling in the dark.No PChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17824446252611654550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5033865397341905972.post-78785272377056979732014-09-27T18:07:13.911+01:002014-09-27T18:07:13.911+01:00Hot pavements are a reminder of how much energy we...Hot pavements are a reminder of how much energy we let slip between our fingers whilst burning millions of years' of stored sunlight every day in the form of fossil fuels. The Sun delivers over a kilowatt of energy per M² which is most believable if you've ever gone bare-foot in a Mediterranean hotspot, as above.Vroomfondelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15502448843409791872noreply@blogger.com