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https://order-order.com/2020/01/24/nicky-morgan-hints-bbc-licence-fee-reform/

Jan 24, 2020 at 3:37 PM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

gc

and the whole "powering xxx homes" energy measurement malarkey.

Jan 24, 2020 at 3:07 PM | Registered Commentertomo

"As I've commented here before I wonder if all the renewable only tariffs on offer can be reconciled with the quantity of renewable available
Jan 24, 2020 at 2:43 PM tomo"

Is this the purpose of all the claims about operational CAPACITY made by Wind Turbine Subsidy Farmers and Solar Subsidy Farmers, as opposed to actual output generated per year?

Jan 24, 2020 at 3:00 PM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

gc

innocent until proven guilty eh?

The modern marketing wheeze of eco-piety for a fat mark-up and some arty / edgy /whizzy packaging has infected the retail energy market.

I'm curious about the obviously careful reticence concerning numbers and deeds .....

As I've commented here before I wonder if all the "renewable only" tariffs on offer can be reconciled with the quantity of renewable available and what is being done (if anything) to bridge what I see as a yawning credibility gap....?

It seems the practitioners of "power piety" seem to swerve any actual numbers at the squeeze end of the arithmetic.

After all - if you are offering 100% Vegan 'leccy - I really do think that you shold be able to evidence the claim in detail.

Jan 24, 2020 at 2:43 PM | Registered Commentertomo

Jan 24, 2020 at 1:51 PM tomo

"Green Energy UK
No call menus, just real people
No exit fees
100% green gas, 100% renewable electricity"

They claim 100% Green Gas and 100% renewable electricity in their advertising, so really ought to be able to prove their claims.

What is the definition of Green Gas anyway? If it is 100% reliable, it is unlikely to be green.

Jan 24, 2020 at 2:16 PM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

Jan 24, 2020 at 1:44 PM It doesn't add up...

A Bishop's Cassock does provide a more efficient void for personal space heating, trapping hot air from the lower regions as it rises. An incense burner, hung from a suspender belt, could be the secret source of the Holy Glow seen in the frozen North.

Jan 24, 2020 at 1:58 PM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

I had small cause to take a look at Green Energy UK - proclaiming to supply "100% green energy" - via one of their customers getting all vehement about the piety of his energy consumption.

So I looked around their web site for evidence and didn't find much beyond colourfully laid out claims - their T&C document doesn't even mention the provenance of the energy or the possibility that the green might 'pon occasion be tainted by other colours of energy in those periods we all know about.... Their Customer Promise document is similarly reticent about tainted supply

There's also the issue of EKO Energy to Africa.... that's proclaimed on their web site - similarly without any evidence. EKO sounds rather Nigerian :-) - but it really ticks a (recycled) shedload of boxes.

I'd expect to see (much) more detail on the provenance of supply and some project synopses of their African adventures....

perhaps they're simply too busy being pious to cover it all?

Jan 24, 2020 at 1:51 PM | Registered Commentertomo

I think the bishop should take medical advice before seeking to warm the posteriors and knees of cathedral visitors.

Jan 24, 2020 at 1:44 PM | Unregistered CommenterIt doesn't add up...

https://twitter.com/BBCr4today/status/1220621446185209856
@BBCr4today tweeted
Why heated cushions might be one way the Church of England combats climate change.

"You can heat people not spaces," says Bishop Nicholas Holtam
on one part of plans to make all of the church's 40,000 buildings carbon neutral by 2045
The tweets links to BBC article

Jan 24, 2020 at 1:25 PM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

"Australian bushfires will cause jump in CO2 in atmosphere, say scientists
Fires released vast amounts of carbon dioxide and reduced vegetation, pushing planet closer to point of no return"

That's ridiculous by their own logic
If a forest of CO2 has been lost
then over 30 years that same CO2 will be reabsorbed as the forest regrows

Their inconsistency in their Carbon accounting
in that the CO2 from Drax tree burning is immediately counted as zero
whereas the CO2 from Oz tree burning is immediately counted in real terms

Jan 24, 2020 at 1:12 PM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

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