BilloTheWisp

As you may know, Anthony Watts has a term for people like me. I am a Luke Warmer. In other words, I roughly go along with the theory that w...

I suppose I should have some sympathy for someone married to Ed Balls. But after what I heard from Yvette Cooper this morning on Radio 4 ...

So the Bank of England is falling over itself to  do some more Printing Money Quantitative Easing.  ( Guardian Here ) Oh Joy! More Fun...

There is one simple and easy method you can use to spot an engineer. Unfortunately it does involve hanging around public toilets. As a conse...

So it looks like  Cuadrilla  has stuck big in Lancashire. Loads of Natural gas. Some reports say enough to meet our energy needs for the ne...

I don't know about you, but I am getting really tired of large corporate bodies continually peddling half-truths and even outright lies...

Murdo Fraser, frontrunner to be the Conservative party’s next Scottish leader is planning to disband the Scottish Conservatives and start ...

OK my grubby little Englanders , here are a couple of very happy individuals, possibly celebrating some of the few billions you have shovell...

Sometimes when Billothewisp is reading through papers on the foolishness that is wind turbinery, he comes across a paper or article which ...

In my last post I described some good news (at last) for the North East of England as the Redcar Steel works re-opened. I also mentioned h...

After the catastophe of of TATA, and the disgusting "hands off" betrayal of British steel workers by the last government, at  le...

The European Energy Portal  provides information on a whole range of energy prices/issues, including Petrol and Diesel prices across Europ...

Well, it looks like the UK is the bad boy again. We are not meeting our renewables target. All you grubby little Englanders - hang yo...

So the FTSE 100 went up by over 1.5% today after initially falling by over 4%. This wild fluctuation came after it lost somewhere around 1...

Take a look at these two old Chinese NIMBYs complaining about how a six mile wide lake of effluent has ruined their country-side. A lake of ...

A turbine burns. No doubt the bearings in the gearbox on the doubly fed induction generator failed. An unattended machine suffering a cat...

A short while ago Billothewisp was tipped off that a considerable number of scientific papers relating to the harmful effects of wind turbi...

It is not often that Billothewisp has been impressed by pub food, but tonight was a rare exception. A chance encounter entailed a visit t...

What is there anyone can write that will ever address the sea of grief and tragedy that has engulfed Norway? What can you do except recoil ...

On the 12th July the government published its latest white paper of energy reform The Electricity Market Reform Paper 2011 Here Although ...

Some of the readers of this blog are Norwegian. To my Norwegian friends, I would like to extend my deepest sympathy regarding the appalling ...

Poor old David Nutt. There he was, on the BBC expecting a factually based scientific argument on the country's drugs and drug recovery ...

It has been knuckle chewing time for the last couple of years for those wind farms that have been stupidly built in the less windy parts of...

Go onto any price comparison site. Select one of the big utility companies. Have a look at how many different tariffs there are. Here is ...

Thanks to JAA  I've found the tomb of the Penitent Coal Baron. ( See Post Here ) Here it is: (above image copyright  Ray Jones  ...

For a while, back in the early 1970's I lived in Aberdare. Aberdare is (or was) a Welsh mining town. My father and mother both were bor...

A worked costing example for a 4 turbine Industrial Wind Turbine Plant. This is a little rough and ready in places but it is not far off ce...

You may not be aware of the Billothewisp's opinion of the Great, Good and Extremely Well Fed. Sadly this opinion is very low. Some wo...

It is not often that something good happens in Africa. But today the world welcomes a new Country, South Sudan. Exploited, dominated and ...

First of all let me make this clear the concept of the Economy 7 domestic electricity tariff is excellent. It is just the execution that is...

Or the Law of Unexpected Consequences One of the most clever and potentially game changing pieces of kit to come out of the mad dash to s...

A landmark wind turbine bill has just about to go into committee stage in the House of Lords. The bill   ( See Here )  is intended to ens...