So says the Government of Sri Lanka in a bid to fight this countries energy crisis.
Good idea, or is it?  The rich will be able to pay the duty, just like many 4×4 drivers pay for fuel in the UK.
How many poor tea pickers in Sri Lanka can afford large energy consuming electrical goods anyway?
Well […]

An elderly Swedish gentleman with a good memory has returned to the techniques the Swedes used during the war.  The method involes burning wood in a container in the back of the car. Tore Bolmquist manages a 300 mile round trip for about £35.  Not bad, but it is just as well Sweden has lots of […]

About 3 weeks ago there was a report saying that wind turbines were inefficient and liable to breakdown.
In the Times of 10th July there is a report headed “British Energy Nuclear Power Output Slides” Evidently nuclear power output fell by 17% during the second quarter.  There was a glitch at Sizewell ‘B’ nuclear power station in […]

Kent has been saved from a fate worse than death.  The nimbies have won yet another victory at the expense of our communal environment.  The proposed windfarm in the Thames Estuary has been dropped by Shell.  Could this be because crude oil is $120 a barrel?
The Government are always giving hefty subsidies to the ‘wind’ […]

It seem odd to me that after watching a TV programme on the decommissioning of Calder Hall,  the world beating nuclear reactor that was a British ‘First’,  that this is yet another race we have lost.
Partly because of the ‘nibmby’ attitude of the prospective neighbours to alternative energy generation systems we have played back into the […]

The UN have given a somewhat belated public warning about biofuels. The original ethos was that biofuels should be produced from otherwise waste materials such as wheat straw, sewage gas and high yield plants grown on low yield soils. Instead of this, farmers in the developed World seeking to increase their returns have been […]

“As we go forward, we will be looking at how best we can realise that growing value for our SHAREHOLDERS”. Yes, I know a company has to have the interests of its shareholders at heart, but. Is this a quote about gas, or oil, NO. It’s a statement about the cost of BP’s research into […]

Now that entrepreneur adventurer Steve Fosset is missing, presumed dead, Richard Branson has the limelight to himself.
OK, this is a first for Britain, but I thought that coconut oil had many uses as a food substance?
Why are we being encouraged and people congratulated for taking bio-oils from people who depend on them for a food […]

In March THE WORLDS FIRST COMMERCIAL SCALE TIDAL ENERGY SCHEME will be installed in Strangford Lough. What’s more the underwater devices are of BRITISH MANUFACTURE. The energy generated should be sufficient for 1000 homes.
Three cheers for British Engineering! 

Something that has been known for about ten years is causing a storm in the North Sea. The MOD reckon that wind turbines will interfere with security radar. It seems that it is only now that all the parties concerned realise that there might be a problem. Mr Brown has just stepped into the affray. […]