Boom Bang-A-Bang 2025/01/18
It goes Boom Bang-a-Bang, Boom Bang-a Bang when you are near . . . Lithium Batteries make their mark in interesting ways The element Lithium
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Home Thoughts From Abroad… 20/8/2023
Situation normal Home thoughts from abroad . . . The British didn’t deserve this miserable summer of 2023. August failed to fulfil its summer promise
2023-11-03
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Natural Gas: Queen of Hydrocarbons 15/5/2023
Architectural history Natural Gas: Queen of Hydrocarbons Natural gas or methane suffers a bad reputation in relation to climate change because, unburnt, it is a
2023-05-15
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Hydropower: Reacting to climate change 3/4/2023
The big splash Hydropower: Reacting to climate change Hydropower is a much under-rated source of electricity, given that 35 countries in the world get over
2023-04-30
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Batteries: what goes up must run down 16/4/2023
Eveready: always there when you need them Batteries: what goes up must run down It is a truth universally acknowledged that when Sir Isaac Newton
2023-04-16
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Powering up Britain? 8/4/2023
Plucky little Britain leads the world Powering up Britain? The language of the British Government’s new “Blueprint for the future of energy” is certainly not
2023-04-08
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Solar: Let the sunshine in… 26/3/2023
Boring picture of solar cells (Archive No 784,632) Solar: Let the sunshine in… The useful US Department of Energy website on solar power starts with
2023-03-26
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Goings-on Beneath The Earth: Hot rocks and carbon storage 16/3/2023
Taal Volcano, Laguna, Philippines, 12 January 2020 Goings-on Beneath The Earth: Hot rocks and carbon storage It is a remarkable fact that around 25% of
2023-03-16
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Oceans of Electricity: Wave Power 5/3/2023
Power roars in, with nowhere to go . . . Oceans of Electricity: Wave Power There are few more satisfying moments in an editor’s life
2023-03-06
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Crude Oil: Sippery Stuff 18/2/2023
Those were the days Crude Oil: Slippery Stuff Way back in the mists of time, or 1952 to be exact, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company had
2023-02-18
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Nuclear Power: Too Big and Too Expensive 12/2/2023
Suited and booted Nuclear Power: Too Big and Too Expensive There is a story that when the Mayoress of Ipswich was invited to tour the
2023-02-12
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Wind Power 2/2/2023
The answer, my friend, is . . . Wind Power Standing up at Commonwealth Bay in Antarctica requires a certain effort of will. The average
2023-02-10
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Up, Up and Away in My Beautiful Balloon 30/1/2023
Up, up and away Hydrogen: Up, Up and Away in my Beautiful Balloon In a large meeting of energy experts organised by BP in Canada
2023-01-30
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Exxon And The Law 25/1/2023
Exxon faces the lawyers Exxon and The Law Picture the scene in Exxon’s headquarters in New York in late 1982, as CEO Clifton Garvin’s secretary
2023-01-25
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All About The Money . . . 21/1/2023
Are the bankers in focus? All About the Money . . . Slowly but surely people are beginning to wake up to the fact that
2023-01-21
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Old King Coal Was A Merry Old Soul 14/1/2023
In more ways than one Old King Coal Was A Merry Old Soul . . . If the aim is to reduce the global emissions
2023-01-14
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It’s Not That Easy 7/1/2023
Sign of the times . . . It’s Not That Easy Let us be blunt about matters. The chances of keeping global temperatures below 1.5°C
2023-01-07
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Wasting Electricity 11/12/2022
Spitzbergen: Goodbye to all that? Wasting Electricity Rarely have the worlds of energy, climate change and high finance come together so dramatically as with the
2022-12-11
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