Tag: Green
Lights Out: Is the EU failing on energy policy?
Let’s first remind ourselves of a very simple truth: the modern world is built on energy
Read the full article...The green elites are living in dreamland
Their ‘green industrial revolution’ is simply never going to happen
Read the full article...Keir Starmer’s green war on workers
A Labour government would sacrifice jobs, growth and energy security to Net Zero
Read the full article...Retailers have become an arm of the nanny state
Sainsbury’s is nudging its customers to become more ‘healthy’ and ‘sustainable’
Read the full article...Net Zero will take over our lives
The new energy White Paper will force us to obsess over the minutiae of everyday energy consumption
Read the full article...Race to be green saps creative energy
I had to laugh. Was this new and epic Cabinet split about whether the Home Office really can and should equip the police with personal organisers in time for the 2012 Olympics?
Read the full article...Green issues need blue-skies thinking
Recently I was at a conference on the state of London. Mayor Ken Livingstone made the opening address. One of his chief slogans concerned human waste: “If it’s yellow, let it mellow; if it’s brown, flush it down”.
Read the full article...Chasing the green pound
Will plans for eco-friendly homes fitted with high-tech energy meters be a money-spinner for IT firms?
Read the full article...Is being green a turn-off?
Teleworkers who neglect to switch off their kit may not be the eco-vandals some would have us believe.
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No 10 on #Shapps? 'Strong on media, sharp instincts, useful in the election'.
BUT former Army chief Richard Dannatt: Shapps “knows very little about defence”.
Since 2002, when BBC head Jon Birt was put i/c of rail futures, ignorance has been cool. Fab!http://on.ft.com/3PnJeuQ
A reminder that the brilliant British film written by the wonderful playwright Barrie Keefe and starring Bob Hopkins and Helen Mirren is on tonight @Film4 11.10 pm #BarrieKeeffe #HelenMirren #BobHoskins
Add EVs, heat pumps, and hydrogen electrolysers.
Good luck powering all of that with wind & solar.
Either you start building gas and nuclear power plants now, or we will once again bow to King Coal for the rescue.
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Innovators I like
Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking