BilloTheWisp

A long time ago I wrote a blog post (Here)  about how a crippling disease had returned to the UK. This disease (called Rickets), was not cau...

We all know wind power is intermittent. I thought I would take a look at how predictable windpower intermittency is and how accurate wind ...

A picture speaks a thousand words. But those words may not be the ones intended by those whose action inspired the image. Here we have...

Several years ago when I set this up this blog, I signed up for a blog amalgamation service. The service known as Wikio also provided popula...

Actually, I am quite surprised to be writing this. Before continuing I should point out I'm neither a serving or retired Royal Mar...

Once upon a time there was an organisation called “The Committee of Public Safety”. It was a bit like Orwell's later inventions of “The...

Ask anyone in the Anti-nuclear movement about Plutonium.  They'll tell you that Plutonium is the the most deadly, poisonous and lif...

For all the green lobby's whinging over the cancellation of Navitus Bay there is something we all need to be crystal clear about: ...

Today Europe is struggling to build two EPR reactors. To be fair, they are getting there. But progress has been slow and costly. Today a t...

So finally, the monster is dead. Navitus bay wind park – nearly 200 massive turbines threatening to scar the Dorset coast is no more. ...

There is a wall of silence from the wind industry regarding wind turbine reliability. But once in a while data seeps out through the wall t...

Both Sendai reactors (unit 1 and unit 2) have now been restarted. Sendai unit 1 has just started providing electricity to the grid. (August ...

I find myself an unlikely defender of fracking. This is not because I think there is anything particularly dodgy (or wonderful) about fracki...

The anti-nuclear lobby is getting all bent out of shape by the restart of one of the two reactors in Sendai in Japan. The restart of one of ...

There is a question at the bottom of this post - maybe you have an answer. The vast majority of French electricity is generated from fr...

Navitus Bay Development Ltd (NBDL) is the company planning a huge offshore  wind-farm  sitting directly off the UNESCO World heritage Juras...