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Renewables, Drax and Myth Busting No 1

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It appears Drax wish to bust some myths about renewable energy (see HERE ) They are tweeting about them one by one. So I thought I'd h...

Why Microsoft Shares the Blame for the Cyber Attack.

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Many folk have poured derision on people/business's still using Windows XP. After all, general support for XP was discontinued three yea...

An Expensive day in April.

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The 30th April 2017 was a Bank Holiday Sunday in the UK and consequently the use of electricity was very low. By chance it is also a Gold...

2017 - Its Getting Better! (...So Get Over It )

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By just about any metric you want to measure it by, the prospects for humanity both now and in the future are improving and at an increasing...

Why the Young Don't Vote

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Ever since I wrote about the poor turn out of 18-25 year old voters in the Eu Referendum ( See THIS POST Here ) and showed that 64% of the 1...

Wind Power - A Rising Capacity Factor. Really?

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The Capacity Factor (or annual fraction of maximum output achieved) has come to dominate the credibility of wind power schemes. The wind in...

Fracking: Will it Ruin my Locality?

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There is an enormous amount of controversy surrounding fracking and/or conventional oil and gas extraction in the UK. Groups of "Frack...

Eu Referendum Demographics: A Different Take.

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I've been interested to find out how many people from each age group actually voted in the Eu referendum. From my findings below I rec...
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UK Foreign Aid, the Eu and German Coffee Barons

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Of the £13 Billion annual UK foreign aid budget around £600 million is given to Kenya. Kenya has long ties with the UK and is arguably ...

A Love Letter to Europe

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I know some of our European friends are quite shocked to find out that we will be probably voting to leave the Eu. So I thought I'd writ...

The Eu: What Happens When a Veto is Used

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Mr Cameron keeps dripping on about how we have a "Cast Iron Veto" on Turkey joining the the Eu. So I thought I would have a look ...
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Vetos, Turkey, the Eu and Deception

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Penny Mordaunt  did get her facts somewhat wrong about the accession veto on #Marr today. Theoretically the UK (and any other Eu State) does...

Intimidate Us Mr Juncker? Really? I'll Raise you 5.

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Quote: "If the British leave Europe, people will have to face the consequences" So Mr Junker, you say: "Deserters will b...

The Sunshine of Your Life

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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...

Is there Something (Else) Wrong with Wind Power?

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