Have I been hibernating? Missed a winter when global warming finally took over and people were sunbathing in Scotland on Christmas Day before the next Ice Age made a rapid appearance come the end of March? The stories that caught my eye this chilly Autumn morn certainly lead me to believe that today is not November the 12th but indeed April Fool’s Day!
Okay there’s a modicum of sensibility about the tale in today’s Guardian that Palace of Westminster officials are formulating a strategy for our nation’s seat of government to slice its carbon more than 30% using wind turbines, tidal power and underground boreholes. The comment about the whole pace being run on thermoaerobic power for centuries anyway should be regarded as just too blooming obvious to mention! The image a wind turbine replacing the hands of the iconic Clock Tower is enough to give one nightmares!
Okay there’s a modicum of sensibility about the tale in today’s Guardian that Palace of Westminster officials are formulating a strategy for our nation’s seat of government to slice its carbon more than 30% using wind turbines, tidal power and underground boreholes. The comment about the whole pace being run on thermoaerobic power for centuries anyway should be regarded as just too blooming obvious to mention! The image a wind turbine replacing the hands of the iconic Clock Tower is enough to give one nightmares!
However it would appear that a detailed study into the greening of the parliamentary estate, commissioned by MPs and peers shows how parliament could be partly powered by a 35m high wind turbine on the neighbouring Victoria Gardens and a field of tidal power turbines in the Thames adjacent to the Members' Terraces.
Still if that sounds feasible if a little cranky the next story is just plain daft so must be true. According to an article in the old Thunderer, the public will be offered incentives to run their dishwashers in the middle of the night, under a government-backed proposal that could reduce Britain's power use by the equivalent of two stations.
Still if that sounds feasible if a little cranky the next story is just plain daft so must be true. According to an article in the old Thunderer, the public will be offered incentives to run their dishwashers in the middle of the night, under a government-backed proposal that could reduce Britain's power use by the equivalent of two stations.
Still the thought of Richard Caborn, the erstwhile sports minister, who belivered the use of so-called "recreational drugs" (make your own mind up on that one) by athletes should not be punishable by sporting authorities heading up a consortium that is bidding for the £5 BILLION contract to help clean up Sellafield (The Times) is enough to realise the supposed sane world might not all it seems!
At least this tale from the weekend's Grauniad had a smile on my face - their Bad Science feature examined the amazing British invention that creates more energy than you put into it. Alas, despite the cooing admiration of the BBC and others, the miracle heating element may simply have been tested incorrectly. 'Using the apparatus provided, it's true, this scientist could get incredible results: the meters would read zero, and yet water would boil in around five minutes. Because the meters provided weren't working...'
ARGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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