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Trying to solve the climate crisis with a fistful of pennies?
Posted by jossc on 22 April 2009.
All eyes were glued to the TV in the office this lunchtime to see whether Alistair Darling's budget would deliver the kind of changes we need to see if we want to give ourselves the chance to keep the lid on climate change. Read more »
UK nuclear capacity in meltdown
Posted by jossc on 6 October 2008.
Hartlepool nuclear plant - completely out of action
Should you happen to find yourself debating with a passionate supporter of nuclear power about how to supply our country's future energy needs, the odds are that pretty early in the debate they'll play their trump card - namely that only nuclear can supply the 'base load' necessary to ensure that the lights stay on throughout the long, dark British winter. Hang the dangers of radioactivity, forget the ruinous expense, they'll say - we can't do without nuclear power.
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Salmond bravely goes where Brown will not
Posted by bex on 18 July 2008.
Avedore CHP plant in Denmark
Remember how we said last month that industrial combined heat and power (CHP) plants could save us money, increase our energy security and help slow climate change?
Well, we've just heard that plans are afoot for just such a plant in Scotland. The Tullis Russell paper mill plans to reduce its annual carbon emissions by around 250,000 tonnes a year by switching to biomass CHP for its electricity and steam.
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A surprising solution to our energy needs
Posted by tracy on 19 June 2008.
No one will be surprised that Greenpeace is against the construction of new nuclear power stations, but what some may find unusual is one of the solutions we are proposing to meet our energy needs and reduce our CO2 emissions - industrial CHP, or combined heat and power.
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Securing Power
Publication Date:
19 Jun 2008Body:
Securing Power is a new report by world leading energy experts Pöyry Energy Consulting and provides a compelling piece of the answer to the energy security and CO2 emissions challenges that the UK faces today. Pöyry's ground breaking analysis shows there is an unprecedented opportunity for very large scale combined heat and power (CHP) plants to provide both heat and electricity fromthe same fuel, allowing us to cut emissions, reduce fuel use, cut costs and provide up to 16GW of new electricity generating capacity to meet UK demand over the coming years.
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Securing Power - Summary
Publication Date:
19 Jun 2008Body:
Securing Power is a new report by world leading energy experts Pöyry Energy Consulting and provides a compelling piece of the answer to the energy security and CO2 emissions challenges that the UK faces today. Pöyry’s ground breaking analysis shows there is an unprecedented opportunity for very large scale combined heat and power (CHP) plants to provide both heat and electricity fromthe same fuel, allowing us to cut emissions, reduce fuel use, cut costs and provide up to 16GWof new electricity generating capacity to meet UK demand over the coming years.
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The Weekly Geek: combined heat and power (CHP)
Posted by bex on 7 March 2008.
The ROCA 3 CHP plant in Rotterdam provides electricty and heat to 400,000 homes
Due to popular demand (well, demand anyway), The Weekly Geek now has its very own RSS feed.
Back in 1882, Thomas Edison built the United States' first electric power plant. Pearl Street Station, which supplied the good folks of Lower Manhattan with electricity for lighting and steam for manufacturing, was around 50 per cent efficient.
125 years on, the typical UK power plant is just 38 per cent efficient. But those modern power plants that have been built on the same principles as Edison's are reaching efficiency levels of up to 95 per cent.
So how did Edison do it? And where are we going so wrong?
In this week's slightly tardy Weekly Geek, we're looking at combined heat and power (CHP): the system Edison was using, and the heart of any truly clean and efficient decentralised energy system. (Those who read the first Weekly Geek on decentralised energy may notice a fair bit of crossover.)
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Government nuclear announcement only bold in its deception
Posted by tracy on 10 January 2008.
I was sitting in my local last night with the Arsenal game on and looking around me at the rapt faces in the Hackney pub and I started to wonder what makes people so passionate about football yet so apathetic about politics and the future of our planet.
It's rip-off Britain, even when it comes to climate change
Posted by John Sauven on 23 October 2007.
John Sauven, our executive director,writing in The Guardian on why Gordon Brown's reluctance to embrace the economic and environmental potential of renewable energy technology is costing us time, money and could eventually cost us the climate.
At the centre of Britain's efforts to tackle climate change are targets for renewable energy, energy efficiency and ultra-efficient combined heat and power (CHP) plants.
Yet as warnings about the impact of global warming grow more severe, every single one of those targets is projected to be missed or has already been abandoned.
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