Dave may have overlooked that BP's oil from the colony shall be washing ashore in the mother country just in time for the Brit's need ...... ;>) "WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS ARE MORE UNEMPLOYED POLITICIANS"
In a message dated 6/16/2010 2:55:40 A.M. Central Daylight Time, mausop...@btinternet.com writes: I think to be fair that the Telegraph is a British newspaper so reports from a British point of view. However..... After the absence of any sensible energy policy for about the last 25 years, Britain will have plenty of blackouts coming, and not related to solar flares - merely due to lack of generation capacity. As recent governments have played the "eco" card and pursued the myth of wind, wave and solar energy and climate change they have neglected the core generating capacity that needs to sit behind them. Britain's generating capacity relies over-heavily on gas, the stocks of which are dwindling in the North Sea and which will soon have to be imported in large qualtities. This problem is exacerbated by lack of investment in infrastructure: we can store only a few days' worth of gas whereas many other EU countries can store weeks' worth. The "green" agenda pushed by politicians and other non-scientists has caused us to lose sight of energy security. Britain has huge coal stocks though lack of investment in (a) mining and (b) power stations to burn the stuff mean that we're in no position to use it. Many of our power stations are coming to the end of their lives, and nothing new is being built to replace them. Wind turbines cost more to build and maintain then they ever generate - they exists merely because of political pressure and due to the various subsidies (much of which are paid for by YOU via your gas/electricity bill, BTW) that HMG pays landowners to install them. Solar panels have a distinct limitation when you want power at 10pm on a Sunday night in January. I'd buy a diesel generator if I were you. They also come in useful for field day contests... Dave G0OIL (an Energy Sector professional) --- On Wed, 16/6/10, tom wylie <thomaswy...@sky.com> wrote: From: tom wylie <thomaswy...@sky.com> Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Warning-Get Ready To: bhw...@hughes.net, "DX-CHAT" <dx-chat@njdxa.org> Date: Wednesday, 16 June, 2010, 8:17 What - only Britain????? Thats not fair...... Tom GM4FDM Bill Hawkins wrote: > > > > Nasa warns solar flares from 'huge space storm' will cause devastation > > > Britain could face widespread power blackouts and be left without > critical communication signals for long periods of time, after the > earth is hit by a once-in-a-generation “space storm”, Nasa has warned. > > *Senior space agency scientists believe the Earth will be hit with unprecedented levels of magnetic energy from solar flares after the Sun wakes “ from a deep slumber” sometime around 2013. * > ** Read the whole story here <_http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7819201/Nasa-warns-solar-flares-from-huge-space-storm-will-cause-devastation. html_ (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7819201/Nasa-warns-solar-flares-from-huge-space-storm-will-cause-devastation.html) >. > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to > > _imail...@njdxa.org_ (mip://0587c5d0/mc/compose?to=imail...@njdxa.org) > > In the message body put either > > unsubscribe dx-chat > > or > > subscribe dx-chat > > This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA _http://njdxa.org_ (http://njdxa.org/) > ----------------------------------------------------------- -- I am fully aware that my youth has been spent That my get up and go - has got up and went But I really dont mind when I think with a grin of all the great places my "get up" has been! ----------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to _imail...@njdxa.org_ (mip://0587c5d0/mc/compose?to=imail...@njdxa.org) In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA _http://njdxa.org_ (http://njdxa.org/) ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org -----------------------------------------------------------
