BilloTheWisp

Gas produces 60% less CO2 emissions than coal. It is also intrinsincally more versatile and far, far less costly to human society.  The pric...

It is interesting to see exactly who has has changed their opinion on nuclear power. (h/t to bravenewclimate HERE  ) Here a subset from ...

That is (of course) - In the ditch (full story here:  In The Journal  ) To be fair, the thing is just as useless in the ditch as it ...

OK My grubby little Englanders , love or hate me, HERE  is a a free gift. It is not actually a gift to you. But it gives you a chance to ge...

Sometime back I came across the pie chart below on the REF website. This chart is formed from the analysis of OfGem wind power data for Dec...

The obscene and depraved actions of a section of the immigrant community in Rochdale, who have been involved in gang raping vulnerable chil...

It has been pointed out to me that China doesn't have many hippies. That's a shame. (I like hippies). The argument goes that, as th...

 Take a look at this table from the USA Energy Information Administration (EIA).  ( Doc Link Here ) From a first glance it looks ...

A mantra may have no substance yet if it is asserted enough times, people start believing it. People are especially receptive if the mantra...

Today it has been reported that one of the great environmentalists of the 20th century, James Lovelock, author of the Giaia Hypothesis, has...

My criticism yesterday of the Dorset Renewable Energy Strategy (DRES) focussed on the inflated Capacity Factor values used for wind turbine...

The Dorset Renewable Strategy Update received a mauling when it was first released for Public scrutiny. Particularly it was lambasted for it...

While I was away in pastures new, I witnessed a rare and catastrophic failure of a motor vehicle. It caught fire. Luckily nobody was hurt b...

Billothewisp has been in pastures new for a while. Pastures remote enough to completely defeat my trusty 3G dongle, even my mobile barely go...

Early today, some poor soul in the planning department at Purbeck District Council made a mistake. They probably typed in the wrong referenc...

RWE and EON have pulled out of building new nuclear plants in the UK.  (See Telegraph Here) It is perhaps unsurprising as both companies ...

The two Queen Elizabeth aircraft carriers, currently being built, were originally costed at £3.9 Billion. That was the proposed completion ...

When I first started this blog I had no plans for it to be dominated by the energy debate. But so far, and by a long margin, my most prolif...

Heres an opportunity to become an executive producer of a documentary (on a budget). Not only that it gives you the chance to bust a few myt...

hat-tip to  caithnesswindfarms.co.uk/

Billothewisp is having trouble keeping up with this. Today another devastating report on the hopelessness of wind power has been publishe...

RenewablesUK and the government have really thrown their toys out of the pram over the latest energy report by the AF Mercados engineering ...

A great little SBC (single board computer) has been launched. It has had a long an arduos gestation lasting several years, but this little...

Taken from "The Times" (letters to the Editor) today..... [quote] I am most worried by the billions of pounds being misinveste...

Today it is hard to believe that just outside Winfrith, a small village in Dorset, there used to be one of the most dynamic and technologic...

The ROC is the veiled subsidy paid to wind turbine operators. Every MW/hr generated by a turbine operator gains the turbine operator a ROC ...

So it begins. The Silton Planning Inquiry starts on Tuesday 28th February. On the one hand we have the good people of Silton.  They hav...

So far the Germans have invested approximately 130 billion Euros in household and industrial solar power. (Roughly the same as the recent G...

At last! A morsel of common sense from the great and good.   ( See Guardian HERE ) . Insulating houses and so REDUCING energy demand is fund...

Look at this hopelessly partisan propaganda piece from the Guardian. Half truths, cherry picked data and innuendo like this should shame any...

The wind turbine industry gets ever more greedy with its claims for curtailment/constraint payments. Turbine operators are claiming huge sum...