Environmentalist
Is it achievable technologically? Yes. We already have the technology we need to get to Net Zero, and there is a lot more to come. There is a lot of research going on that has been triggered by the challenge of reaching net zero. So, we are going to have […]
You can choose smart or stupid ways to go green, and going nuclear is one of the stupider ways. There are much smarter ways to do it. If you do it in smarter ways, then you can argue about whether the investment is a subsidy or an investment. You can […]
I think we should be worrying more about whether nuclear power is economically sustainable, than whether it is environmentally sustainable. The government has missed a huge opportunity to help drive energy bills down, by fulfilling the commitments that they have already made to improving energy efficiency in our homes, which […]
Boris Johnson’s announcement about Sizewell was very strange. Firstly, it was a reannouncement of money that had already been committed to helping EDF get ready to go nuclear. It wasn’t actually giving the go ahead. We are quite a long way away from giving the go ahead for Sizewell. Secondly, […]
This is the third document in six months that the government has produced, and all that has happened is that they have become less coherent, and less and less connected to what actually matters to most people. What the Prime Minister seems to believe is that we want expensive nuclear […]
Why would the government build nuclear power stations which will mean that they have to put people’s energy bills up twice in order to get the investment needed to build them and pay for the energy they produce, why would you do that? Why would the government think it is […]
It is true that there was very little wind last week. But what is interesting is that the lights stayed on, electricity still worked, factories kept running, homes were still heated. So, it didn’t matter all that much that the wind didn’t blow, because we have a very sophisticated grid […]
Russia’s threat might make a difference to supply. There is a poker game going on here. Putin needs people to buy Rubles to prop up the value of the Ruble in Russia, and other countries need Russian gas, So, it is question of who can look the other in the […]
At COP26 I think we did better than I’d expected and nothing like good enough, is my general feeling. I think the tone was interesting, rather than the specifics of the outcome – which everybody’s commentaries focused on – the tone was interesting, because it was a much greater sense […]
To focus on public subsidies for renewables is only telling part of the truth. The rest of the truth is that we also subsidize our existing fossil fuel industries, BP and Shell and others like them around the world still get subsidies. Every nuclear power station on the planet gets […]