The islands currently generate around 120 percent of their electricity needs but rather than being rewarded for this energy surplus, the current set-up sees the islands penalised for creating too much clean power. Link
Tuesday, 8 October 2019
ORKNEY - TOO CLEAN, TOO SOON
The islands currently generate around 120 percent of their electricity needs but rather than being rewarded for this energy surplus, the current set-up sees the islands penalised for creating too much clean power. Link
Sunday, 6 October 2019
THE CARDIFF MARATHON FFS
Dear BBC television
Please would you show the Cardiff Half Marathon live for two and a half hours. I bet that's a letter they never received - what a waste of BBC resources showing this guff; the only people remotely interested in the boring yawn Cardiff Half Marathon are in it. Link
Thursday, 3 October 2019
FUSION IS ALWAYS 30 YEARS AWAY
The UK Government has announced £220m over the next four years towards the design of a commercially viable fusion power station.
Known as the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP), it will be based on “spherical” tokamak technology that is currently being pioneered at the UK’s Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE). The design effort – led by the CCFE – will involve over 300 people and be complete in 2024. - Link
DOGGER BANK
The wind farm touted to be the biggest in the world upon completion, Dogger Bank Wind Farms, will also be equipped with the world’s largest wind turbines, thanks to the order by development partners Equinor and SSE Renewables.
Dogger Bank Wind Farms, located 130 kilometres of the coast of Yorkshire, England, is made up of three projects with a total capacity of 3.6GW, the equivalent consumption of 4,3 million homes per year. - link
BAY OF FUNDY
Two tidal energy companies are joining forces to develop technology to harness the Bay of Fundy's powerful tides.
Sustainable Marine Energy and Minas Tidal LP will use a technology that includes turbines on a floating platform — instead of on the ocean floor — with the hope of eventually delivering nine megawatts of tidal energy to Nova Scotia's electricity grid. Link
Wednesday, 2 October 2019
BIFFA FINED £350K
A London court has fined a United Kingdom waste management company 350,000 pounds ($431,000) for attempting to export contaminated household waste to China.
Wood Green Crown Court ordered Biffa Waste Services to pay the fine and an additional 249,912 pounds in legal fees for the infraction that occurred in 2015. Link - more like this (Biffa) - link - more like this (Biffa) - link
Tuesday, 1 October 2019
U.S. PALM OIL IMPORTS
Used in about half of the products on supermarket shelves, palm oil imports to the U.S. have jumped 485% in the last decade - Link
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