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About Contact Links Caveat The DR Manifesto...Manifesto I'm not standing for office. I'd be a shite politician, partly because I'm unpleasantly honest and partly because I hate wearing suits... If I wasn't, this is what I'd be campaigning on... (26 Feb 2007) 'Please let my Mother live!'...Environment There's only one way to ensure our survival as a species - live sustainably. It's easy! Nuclear Idiocy (15 January 2007) Sustainability (16 October 2006) Global Warming (15 October 2006) Housing Shortage (15 October 2006) Cycle Paths (11 October 2006) Tourism (10 October 2006) Main Topics...Make Drugs Legal Prohibition doesn't work, duh! It gives too much money to organised crime... Updated: Letter to the Telegraph 'Alcohol and Tobacco are the gateway drugs - if there is such a thing...' (Upd: 11 Mar 2006) Errant Fathers How can fathers be expected to 'take responsibility' for their kids when the law always presumes in favour of the mother? I got a reply - and here's my reply to that Welfare and Compensation Culture = No Legal Responsibility (Upd: 11 Mar 2007) A New Political System A solution for: Party Funding, Reform of The House Of Lords, and it incidentally makes the whole voting process far more democratic... (Upd: 25 Feb 2007) Principles My principles of government. (Upd: 25 Feb 2007) Road Pricing Tony Blair and the entire Labour Government are cretins... Road pricing has to be the most hare-brained scheme ever - devised by the evil cretinous muppets from hell - the Politicians... (19 Feb 2007) Old People Old folks have no respect in our culture. That is so wrong!... (18 Feb 2007) Poverty How do we define poverty? How do we reduce it? Well, not taxing the poor would help... (18 Feb 2007) Europe The EU is a criminal organisation intent on conquest... (Upd: 30 January 2007) Cash for Honours Why would anyone give money to a political party?.. (16 January 2006) Social Security A fresh approach to the problem of how to provide social security... (15 January 2006) David Cameron David Cameron and the Conservative Party... (12 December 2006) Random Rants Some random musings... (12 November 2006) Prisons If prisoners are 'paying their debt to society' - why is is so damn expensive to keep them? (21 October 2006) Tax Taxes kill businesses and people. (16 October 2006) Free Speech Some peoples brains work overtime trying to figure out how to turn opinions into insults... (14 October 2006) Health Why are tax-payers footing the bill for sex-change operations and IVF? (13 October 2006) Law British law is stupidly complex and inefficient. You'd never design a system like that... (13 October 2006) Education Educators need to aim higher, and politicians need to butt-out. (12 October 2006) Security It was a no-brainer that invading Iraq with Bush would cause more grievances than it solved. When has starting a war ever brought peace? (8 October 2006) |
It Is Irrelevant Whether GW Is Anthropogenic Or Not2nd January 2008 Hi Derek, I think it is irrelevant whether GW is anthropogenic or not. We should be using non-polluting technologies anyway - because we can - and it simply makes good housekeeping sense. This approach cuts to the heart of the problem and obviates the need for so much pointless discussion and hand wringing... It seems that you have consistently missed the point about the huge range of renewable technologies which are available - and like most people who seem to oppose renewables in favour of nuclear - you always pick one and say that it couldn't supply our energy needs. You did this previously with wind-power, and now with solar... It is clearly true that no single renewable technology is likely to be adequate to meet all our demands, but to use this as an argument against the whole field of technology is disingenuous. If we were to use *the full range* of renewable technologies that were available to us - we would easily be able to meet our energy demands. The only problem at the moment with this is the cost & profitablility of such ventures. Setting enforced buy-back tariffs, and reducing tax and regulation on the sector would solve that problem overnight. This overbearingly statist government is too arrogant and inept to realise that real-world probelms are best solved by private business, not themselves. Grandiose government-backed wind-power schemes are a mirror-image of the government itself - a vastly ugly and inefficient method of solving a problem which would be best solved at the grass roots... I originally joined UKIP because I thought it stood for the individual, not the state. By rejecting the european state, and promoting independence - I felt sure that was what UKIP's principles surely were... After being party to the discussions over energy policy - it seems that I was wrong... As long as UKIP favours state-funded action over state-encouraged individual action it will not be able to represent me or my views... Reply From DerekBelieve me, I wish you were right that all renewables taken together would do the job but the figures I have seen, both for the UK and Europe, suggest a huge energy shortfall even if all the new technologies were to get off the ground (which I wouldn't stake my life on). Most of the rest of what you say makes immediate sense to me but I would be in favour of giving the government ... and indeed the misled Tories ... space to U-turn without loss of face. After all we were all confused to different extents by the fraudulent UN-IPCC "consensus", including the President of the Royal Society, which is only slowly being corrected by the media! One problem with solar technology, particularly in overcrowded U.K., is the ground space needed but this does seem to be a good solution for African countries with extensive desert regions which could give them a real commercial advantage. Export by them is another matter because of "transmission losses" but power-intensive industries could thrive. What do you think? I don't know UKIP's view on state-funded vs individual action, or indeed that of any other political parties other than New Labour, but still repeat that we shall not get anywhere by promulgating scientific inexactitudes. That is the sole point of my draft letter. Perhaps I am a little sceptical about "individual" action; most of us would rather watch football on TV until the lights suddenly go out. Keep writing ... 2008 should see intense debate followed hopefully by an optimum "New Year Resolution". Best Wishes Derek Reply From PhilHi Folks, If you are interested, you can go to the link immediately below, and read the Senate report and the views of the scientists who have taken the view that the IPCC is not representative of the full scientific community. http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.SenateReport It will take me some time to read this report fully, but I believe it is very significant. Have a happy new year, and may your aspirations come to fruition. Regards, Next InstallmentStoring Electrical Power In The Grid CommentsThis is a sporadically moderated blog. I am not responsible for anything below! There are no comments for this page. To add your own comments, click here to login or register |
