LOOMING ENERGY GAP POWER CUTS

Many experts are predicting blackouts in the imminent future and indeed this has already occurred.

Power cuts can cost lives as well as seriously damaging the economy.

This is due to the renewable energy quota that we have been saddled with from Europe. During the recent power cut not one of the two thousand wind turbines came to the rescue Indeed had they managed to input any energy into the Grid the situation may well have been exacerbated.

During very cold weather caused by an anti cyclone there is no wind either .Solar panels not much use in winter either if covered in snow.

Caroline Lucas has been very busy in Europe and the result will not be beneficial to our economy.

There will be grave economic problems ahead when we close nine coal fired power stations to comply with the Large Combustion Plant Directive; a move that will have no impact whatsoever on the climate I may add.

It is a syllogism to infer that because coal happens to be black it must be dirty.

Mining our  buried  treasured  resources leads to prosperity.

When Great Britain was the wealthiest nation on Earth industry was driven by KING COAL and Britannia Ruled the Waves!

 Some say it is not economic to mine our own coal.

 I say let us find a way to make it worth reopening a coal mine or two and get all those once proud mining communities back to work and off incapacity benefit.

The Green Party have inflicted huge economic damage via Europe and their unproven hypotheses of anthropogenic warming.

The CFL light bulbs are another travesty we have the Greens to thank for. They are full of mercury, a powerful neurotoxin and will pollute the Environment in the long term.

Please note that one can be a keen environmentalist and not subscribe to the doctrines that carbon is the root of all evil and that CFL bulbs will save the planet. Both premises are incorrect.

Labour has made a mistake in slavishly adopting the policies of the Greens. By all means let us explore new technologies and ways of power generation but only in a measured and calculating manner.

Do we really want to give Denmark millions of pounds for their wind turbines? No is the obvious answer. We need to make our own and explore tidal projects using British engineers.

Thermonuclear fusion energy generation is unlikely to succeed in our lifetime; or the next for that matter as the theory is incorrect.

Therefore ITER is also another blind alley.(INTERNATIONAL THERMONCLEAR  REACTOR)

It is ironic that the Green Party has now found itself in the ridiculous situation of having to back NUCLEAR FISSION as a means to plugging the energy gap caused by their LARGE COMBUSTION PLANT DIRECTIVE. This was the Party that spent years organising anti nuclear demonstrations!!!

They have got themselves in a political mess but still people vote for them in the erroneous belief that they will save the planet. Actually I foresee that their policies will bring environmental damage if the GM lobby succeed in pushing their GLOBAL WARMING AGENDA.

Regarding nuclear energy, this may have been a lucrative option had we not sold out on our own brilliant nuclear scientists years ago.

Now we are at the mercy of French power giants.

All so short sighted and all so very avoidable.

TIME TO GAZE INTO OUR CRYSTAL BALL, if we are TO AVOID SIMILAR FINANCIAL ERRORS.

Energy is where the big bucks are to be made but NOT THE CLIMATE.

Climate issues have become confused with ETHICAL MAN. However it is still possible to ethically care for the environment without subscribing to the CARBON IS EVIL FALLACY.

Carbon in the form of coal equals energy equals wealth.

Nuclear Power is being promoted as being environmentally friendly due to low carbon emissions. A truly massive error and one that future generations will curse us for…..  So says my crystal ball.

It takes just one speck of plutonium to cause cancer.

When Colwyn Bay flooded an analysis of the silt by geologists found traces of DEADLY PLUTONIUM. This could only have originated from Sellafield.

Thus, coal is probably the lesser of the two evils in the long run.We do have a thousand years of the stuff to use,. By 3000A.D. we will have perfected micro cold fusion devices so no need to feel guilty about using up our coal reserves for now,

Ed Miliband has gone all Evangelical in his new role, would be prudent to rename the position as SECRETARY FOR ENERGY AND ENTERPRISE. He will probably end up as Leader of the Labour Party because of this saintly role.

Therefore keep an eye on Greg Clark. ENERGY EQUALS POWER.

It is a potentially very important position on par with that of Home Secretary.

Finally my sister has told me to retract my comments re AID to overseas .She says it is BAD KARMA, Still it is a fact that it is a waste of money to try and prevent global warming, An ice age will inflict far greater damage to the World economy.  Last year thousands of pensioners died because of the cold weather, COLD WEATHER EQUALS FINANCIAL RUIN

Sea levels will not rise if carbon dioxide levels rise and the Maldives will not be flooded either, Tsunamis and tidal floods are caused by plate tectonics not by global warming.

The Government also wasted millions on that inane advert about global warming.

I am sure that Lloyd George is turning in his grave at what has become of this country. Did Great Britain dish out billions of pounds then to other countries to help combat global warming???

Did the Industrial Revolution during which tons of coal were burnt IN MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISE cause an increase in temperatures??

NASA was trying to find the answer to this question when it launched a satellite to search for this unaccounted for carbon dioxide. Unfortunately the satellite crashed into the sea leaving the mystery of the missing carbon dioxide emissions unanswered. NASA need not have bothered with wasting so much money on the project. Most carbon dioxide is recycled into the soil or plants. Back to school NASA!!

And lastly let us not forget that we currently have no reliable empirical scientific data to prove any rise in world temperatures.

Even the Met Office data has to now be discounted in the light of CLIMATEGATE. So the next time someone solemnly professes that

This has been the warmest decade on record take it with a pinch of Salt.

That is if there is any left.

WUND POWER IS VARIABLE

WIND IS INTERMITTENT AND VARIABLEAND THE CUBE LAW NEEDS TO BE CONSIDERED.

WHEN A 30MPH WIND FALLS TO 10MPH THE POWER AND OUTPUT FALLS BY 96 PER CENT.

THUS WE HAVE TO FALL BACK ON  GAS AND COAL FIRED GENERATION.

WE ONLY HAVE ONE CROSS CHANNEL CABLE.SO ARE VULNERABLE TO POWER SHORTAGES.

GLOBAL WARMING IS THE LEAST OF OUR WORRIES IF A POWER CUT ENSUES FROM ILL CONCEIVED ENERGY POLICY

CHANDLERS KIDNAP

Dear William Hague

The way that David Miliband has handled the the kidnap of the Chandlers has bee an absolute disgrace.

Our Prime Minister Gordon Brown should sack this incompetent Minister who is certainly no champion of the people.

Miliband states that the government does not negotiate with terrorists. Well firstly the kidnappers are not terrorists but pirates.

A terrorist is motivated by a political or religious ideology but a pirate is motivated  purely by financial gain. Somalia is a desperately poor country and many turn to piracy  simply to survive.

It seems that a deal was brokered through diplomatic channels to release the captives for

 £61 000 but Miliband blocked it !!Nick Davis from the Merchant Maritime War Centre had got the funds for their release and was ready to push the button so to speak when Miliband vetoed the deal.

On the basis that this is a piracy case the government should act fast and reopen the negotiation immediately .

It is disgraceful that David Miliband is prepared to write off two British citizens lives to further his political persona. He is a liability to the Labour Party and should go!

By now the pirates are so fed up with waiting they will most likely accept an even lesser amount.

We must act fast to save the Chandlers as the kidnappers are finding it hard to feed them so they may be killed soon.

Then the Foreign Secretary will have blood on his hands.

 Can  you help to override the decisions of the weak and selfish Miliband who is an absolute joke????

 

WIND TURBINE FOLLY

Sir

your paper has published some interesting features recently on the pros and cons of wind turbines.

It seems that these icons  are not such a great economic asset after all.

Sadly wind farms depend heavily on taxpayer funded subsidies to remain operational.

In Hawaii, the Kamaoa Wind Farm lies abandoned as do five others.

In California there are 140000 abandoned wind turbines that have been left to rot. A dreadful blight on the landscape.

The taxpayers subsidies simply ran out and so the turbines lie abandoned on one of the windiest places on earth.

A grim warning to us all that the quest for wind energy may lead to economic ruin.

The hazards of wind turbines are even greater in cold climates.

Ice can build up on blades during a freezing cold winter anticyclone. This can cause gear box failure and blades can snap as happened at Conisholme wind farm.

If a  turbine blade ruptured near a residence it could be  very dangerous.

Already our electricity bills have increased to pay for these follies.

 During the Industrial Revolution when coal was king we were the richest country in the world.

Our country still has over a thousand years worth of coal reserves to be mined and put to profitable use.

The  investors returns are far higher than those from wind power.

HUDSPETH`S OXFORD TRANSPORT MISTAKES

Sir

I have often felt that the highways department wasted huge amounts of money on gratuitous transport schemes. Indeed I have written quite a few letters to your paper on this subject.

A while ago I had a conversation in the Town Hall with a member of the highways department. He told me that the funding allocated each year was contingent on the amount of money that had been spent during the previous year.

Therefore, there was a great incentive to spend as much money as possible each year in order to secure the greatest possible funding from central government.

Like myself he felt like there was a lot of unnecessary waste. For example, he mentioned that on one particular unnecessary road scheme the contractors had quoted two million pounds for the work. Then midway through the job the price suddenly escalated to eight million pounds. He told me that it was casually waved through without any complaint whatsoever by the department.

I realised that the problem was stemming from the then Labour government who was sanctioning this ridiculous wastage. They were in affect dishing out huge sums of money to local authorities for fatuous and annoying road schemes such as ABITS.

Therefore, I was relieved to read that the new coalition plans to axe £309 million pounds in grants to local authorities for local road schemes.

Sadly it is too late to save the lovely subway in Headington, which is not in the least bit dark, but beautifully painted. It is being filled in to make way for bus lanes.

Thank goodness all this road madness is going to come to an end soon, with the new coalition.

TUITION FEE PROTEST

Sir

this week my 14 year old daughter attended a student fee protest in Oxford with her older brother having escaped from school after lunch with a large group of excited children from Cheney School.

I later discovered that a notice had been pinned up forbidding younger pupils from going.

By all accounts she had the time of her life ,despite being roughed up by two policemen and having a sore and marked arm to prove this.

She also narrowly missed being trampled by a police horse that was deliberately ridden into the crowd. Fortunately she is a very strong girl indeed and managed to pull herself away from the determined police officer who had grabbed her arm.

In other situations one might wonder if a strange man grabbed a young girl and suspect he might be a paedophile. I don`t see why police officers should be treated differently in this respect. How does one know what their motives are and whether they might secretly enjoy the opportunity to put their hands on young women?

Frankly it is disgraceful. The incident has now resulted in my law abiding daughter having a dislike of the police and i suspect this is the case now with all the other youngsters at such protests; this has clear attendant  and worrisome implications.

ANANDA KNOX APPEAL

as a postgrad. criminologist I have recently been researching gendered justice and the differential treatment often meted out to women who are portrayed as doubly deviant by a patriarchal sentencing culture.

Often women are sexualised in a babes behind bars fashion and given such huge  coverage by a media keen to sell newspapers that their trial becomes seriously prejudiced . This scenario has occurred in the Amanda`s Knox case which has degenerated into a witch hunt.

I believe that she is totally innocent for numerous reasons, not least the forensic evidence which completely removes her from the crime scene. Her case was badly presented the first time, focussing on emotional appeals to the judge instead of presenting the hard facts.

Some of these facts are as follows:

1. The main suspect ,Rudy Guede had recently been apprehended twice armed with a knife having broken into a school and an office to steal laptops.

2. Guede gained entrance on both occasions via a window he had smashed with a rock.

3.In the Knox case a window was similarly smashed with a rock in an adjacent room to Meredith`s room.

4. The Italian Judge decided that this was a "staged break in" by Knox and Sollecito.

5.A criminologist would think otherwise. This clearly was a genuine break in by a drug dealer looking for money.

6.The Italian Judge says the motive for murder is baffling but probably has sexual satanic undertones.

7. Wrong again; there is a clear motive of THEFT as Rudy Guede left his fingerprints on Meredith`s handbag and also stole 300 Euros from it.

8. At around 10 o clock in the evening Meredith noticed the missing money and tried to phone her bank .(evidence found on her phone records). Guede is in the bathroom at this point using the lavatory(evidence later found).

9.Between 10 and 11 pm. she is murdered and raped, by Rudy Guede.

10. He takes her mobile phones and throws them in a neighbour`s garden where they are later found.

11.He then runs away to Germany: another indication of guilt.

12.He says in his police statement that he left the front door open

13. Amanda Knox states that when she arrived at the murder house the front door was wide open, arousing her suspicions.

14,Amanda hardly knew Guede and could not have conferred with him. Therefore she is telling the truth about the wide open door.

15. Meredith`s door was locked from the outside by the killer and therefore these keys need to be found as they will provide crucial DNA evidence.

 16. Guede said that he had consensual sex with Meredith on a date arranged previously at the Halloween party. Witnesses said he was not at the Halloween party and did not meet Meredith. It was clearly a rape.

17. Guede stated that he returned to the room to find Sollecito stabbing Meredith. This is clearly an amateurish attempt to frame another man for his heinous crime. Amazingly the prosecution fell for this shabby lie resulting in Sollecito`s arrest.

18. If Guede`s story is true why did he not call an ambulance??

To conclude, two innocent people have been wrongly incarcerated and received longer sentences than the real culprit who is only serving sixteen years.

The trial to date has been an absolute shambles and is reminiscent of the days of the Witch Finder General and the Malleus Maleficarum,