BilloTheWisp

The other week it came time to loan out $25 on Kiva that had recently been repaid. I had a quick search through the listings for a suitabl...

Billothewisp does not watch the telly that much. Tonight though (for his sins) he is watching (with one eye only) "The Apprentice...

I haven't visited the excellent  NETA-bmreports site  for a while so I thought I'd have a quick look tonight just to see how much th...

Here is a price comparison table from The European Energy Portal . We can do a little analysis of relative electricity prices in Europ...

Both Coal and Nuclear provide excellent base load electrical generation. Both are in a league of their own for cost and reliability. So wh...

The government has confirmed the sites for eight new nuclear reactors. And about time too.  See Fuels & Power article Here All the ...

Back in 2000 one of the Great Good and Extremely Well Fed was appointed as a "Blue Skies Advisor" to Tony Blair. The individual...

Billothewisp regards chopping down virgin rain forest to grow Palm Oil palms as an act of criminal stupidity. ( See Another Green Energy Sca...

This post is about a strategy document, quietly being pushed through by Dorset County Council. This document seeks to industrialise virtual...

My friends at the BBC (of which I have none) have, on their sumptuous website, a main page for each of the countries within these islands. ...

When I first read This Post on "Watts Up With That"   I thought that the author must be on drugs. But as I read on it became all ...

OK you grubby little Englanders . It is Saturday night. Let us put the world to rights. Or at least, let us think about how to fix a few th...

So, now it looks like it really was the beansprouts (see guardian here)  Those Spanish cucumbers were innocent after all. Thirty-one dead....

It is your last chance to see Windfarm Wars on BBC iPlayer. The four episodes expire tomorrow and I have a dark suspicion that the BBC will ...

Germany: Strain O105 E-Coli. 25 dead. Approaching 3000 infected. 800 very seriously ill. Billothewisp admits he got it wrong. The Spanis...

I was just listening to Radio 4 "Thought For The Day". On it the narrator described how, in China a young man sold one of his kidn...

I'm having a bit of a wobble about where I stand regarding England and an English Assembly. Though to be honest, I have never been total...

The Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) is in the pocket of no-one. Not the government, industry,academia or the media. They provide exper...

Windfarm Wars is/was a documentary series on BBC2. It followed the progress and opposition to a proposed industrial wind turbine complex to ...

I don't want to make light of the terrible events in Germany concerning the E-Coli outbreak, but I do think a little acidic evaluation i...

The Fen Beagle Blog  - a recommendation to all you fellow grubby little Englanders. I don't often do posts recommending other blogs bu...

The third instalment concerning a bitterly contested bid to build an industrial wind turbine complex in the middle of rural Devon was on BBC...

If you want to read a dry document look no further than the " The Cost of Generating Electricity " from the Royal Academy of Engin...

I thought it was time for a quick update on how things are going with my micro finance experiments with KIVA . Kiva is an organisation that ...

Poor old Harold Camping . There he was, probably in desperate need of some psychiatric care when a whole load of other death wishers descend...

OK. Let us get this straight. Dandelions are complete bastards. Dandelions are the enemy. Dandelions deserve to be exterminated. If there is...

The BBC on are showing a 4 part serial on BBC2 (7.00 Fri) called "WindFarm Wars". It is about a bitterly opposed planning applica...

The letter below appeared in The Scotsman (Here)  on the 27th April. To say it ruffled a few feathers would be an understatement.  It is per...