Comments on: Energy Alternatives

By: john hurren

john hurren — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:30:35 +0000

If we are willing to invest, and tighten up our security (get rid of muslim threats), we can look towards fusion. Already the technical barriers to this are falling away.
We can then do away with Saudi Oil.
in light
john hurren

By: john hurren

john hurren — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:28:58 +0000

If we are willing to invest, and tighten up our security (get rid of muslim threats), we can look towards fusion. Already the technical barriers to this are falling away.
With it, we can say bye to saudi oil.
in light
john hurren

By: J. Paige Straley

J. Paige Straley — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:27:23 +0000

I do hope BNP members will look into a fascinating variant of nuclear power, that is, the thorium-fuelled motlen salt reactor. This is about 80% developed in the US, and there are many who are actively advocating its further development. All of the fears and drawbacks of the current generation of nuclear reactors are counted by this concept. (Yes, ALL of the objections.) You can educate yourself on this topic by going to the energyfromthorium blogsite. The BNP might do well to advocate for this tech within the UK, it would certainly be a new and promising direction.

By: BlacklightPower

BlacklightPower — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:57:51 +0000

This problem has a very simple solution that is clean, cheap, and abundant please go to blacklightpower.com and find out how a new discovery in physics is going to change the world.

Here's an excerpt from a recent press release:

John Miller, recently appointed to the Board of Directors of BLP and former president of Standard Oil, described the recent advances saying, “The successful development of new-generation chemistry and its simple thermal regeneration is a major historical step toward near-term, commercial hydrino power. Our recent execution of eight billion watts of commercial licensing agreements demonstrates that the power market is beginning to agree.”

By: Revisionist

Revisionist — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:27:38 +0000

David MacKay's book "Without Hot Air" is a free download from this site —
http://www.withouthotair.com/download.html
Prof McKay is a Cambridge physicist. There's a synopsis of the book available on the same site.

NB – I haven't checked or read it; the man advises the government and may , or may not, have agenda of his own or other people.

By: pitman

pitman — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:59:09 +0000

I like the comment about coal gasification, it is a distinct possibility wheres a lot of the alternative sources suggested are just a lot of greenie wishin and hopin.

What we forget is that Britain was a world leader in coal mining until it was destroyed by the socialist attitudes of successive governments and short sighted unions.

We still have billions of tons under this green and pleasant land.

By: Bullseye

Bullseye — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:54:51 +0000

It is no use thinking in the short term when you talk about nuclear power. The waste from this type of power station has to be stored safely for thousands of years. In the mean time you are going to be producing more and more of it. Where do you put it?!

Photovoltaic panels cost almost as much in electricity to make as they will produce over their lifetime – so no saving there.

Hydrogen fuel cells? No help there. As is often the case there is confusion between global warming and clean air. Fuel cells may give you clean air, at least locally, but will not help the environment generally. In fact, if millions of cars use them it is going to rain due to all of the water vapour being pumped into the atmosphere.

Tidal and wave power? Maybe.

What ever we do is just a way of making our lives miserable without achieving anything in the long term if nothing is done about the ever expanding population. Tackle that and most other problems will disappear.

By: Carney3

Carney3 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:13:47 +0000

I encourage the BNP to consider the views of former NASA rocket scientist and nuclear engineer Robert Zubrin, author of "Energy Victory". He rejects the pat answers of both the Right (no mandates, drill baby drill) and the Left (solar, wind, electrics, austerity) and points the way to a more secure and prosperous future. His answer is affordable and practical - it involves mandating that all new cars sold be fully flex-fueled, able to run equally easily on any alcohol fuel as gasoline. Alcohol fuels include methanol, ethanol, and others. They burn more cleanly, can be spilled or leaked without major concerns, cannot have their market "cornered" by hostile foreign powers, and do not fund our enemies. Flex fuel tech is ready and reliable now and costs only about £50-60 for automakers to add to a car. [youtube S0O2YZwSkgM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0O2YZwSkgM youtube]

By: Britannia Patriot

Britannia Patriot — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:39:45 +0000

Calm down everyone, there is, in Canada and Wyoming, USA, loads of oil in tar sands and oil shales. It is expensive to extract (at todays oil prices) but it has been calculated that at todays oil consumption rates there is 1,500 years of oil in Canada alone. It is bigger than Saudi Arabia but we just do not extract much because of the cost.
There is an excellent book called The Bottomless Well which explains how we will not actually run out of oil, we'll just use less and less of it as we change our energy systems.
Hopefully someone will come up with a cheap way of getting the oil from the shales and tar sands so that we can tell the arab's to eat their damn oil!

By: curbendurben

curbendurben — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:27:59 +0000

Why Cant We Design and Build Solar Power Towers With Field's Of Heliosats to Reflect the suns Ray Onto A Central Tower or Solar Dish Collector's,?? I Know Its Not The Sunnist Country In the World, But When We Do Get The Sun Its Strong. I Mean The Technology Has Been Around Since The 60's???

By: james

james — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:47:41 +0000

Wind
Solar
Wave
Tidal
Nuclear
Bio-fuels
Hydrogen

Most of the above can take over from oil:

Nuclear power as the main source.
Electricity producing solar panels on every roof in the country.
Cars that run on the hydrogen fuel cell.
Tidal and wave power up and down the coast line, hidden from sight of course!

Don't know about Bio-fuels, the point is to move away from oil based fuels, not use it in conjunction with something else, we have enough wind power as it is on the hills, we don't need any more!

By: Tsnafu

Tsnafu — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:30:57 +0000

Wind – Every little helps, but wind power is unreliable. With pumped hydro it is of some use.
Solar – For hot water generation for homes this is a very useful addition. PV is massively un-economical in the UK though.
Wave – The real future of British energy independance.
Tidal – Another real potential. But we have to go at it full scale, no "think of the birds", sod the birds, we need the electricity.
Nuclear – Will buy us the time needed to construct wave and tidal.
Bio-fuels – Of some limited use for vehicles. A stop gap measure while the electric car industry and the railways are built up.
Hydrogen – Of no real use whatsoever. A very expensive way to store electricity.

By: BigDavey

BigDavey — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:40:29 +0000

Have you never heard of UCG?

An alternative to coal-fired electricity generation is underground coal gasification (UCG). UCG involves injecting steam and oxygen down a borehole, which extracts gas from the coal and draws the mixture to the surface – a potentially very low carbon method of exploiting coal. Identified onshore areas that have the potential for UGC amount to between 7 billion tonnes and 16 billion tonnes. Based on current UK coal consumption, these volumes represent reserves that could last the UK between 200 and 400 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_coal_gas...

Something to consider surely?

By: baccy_tin

baccy_tin — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:30:30 +0000

The eu/liblabcon alternative -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1103928/ANDREW-ALEXANDER-Politicians-power-new-religion.html

By: bodica

bodica — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:49:14 +0000

You forgot methane. Whitehall might be a good source, or the mosques. Then again, the latter will be closing, and the inhabitants of the former, changing.