If there isn't going to be a «tipping point» then how do we justify subsidising renewable
energy schemes at the expense of security of supply?
I believe if we're going to invest in greentard
energy schemes at least solar doesn't chop birds and bats up.
Beijing is implementing ambitious renewable
energy schemes at home and has announced plans to reshape its energy sector and reduce its use of coal — by far the most polluting fossil fuel.
Not exact matches
This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look
at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system...
at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger
scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless
at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive
scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious
energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and,
at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits
Find out more about the
energy challenge and how National Grid is helping find solutions to some of the challenges we face at www.nationalgridconnecting.com The National Grid Energy Efficiency Innovation Award scheme was launched across National Grid's four gas distribution networks and provided a # 400k fund to support major innovations to tackle fuel poverty and deliver energy efficiency solutions in communities, with five agencies in total receiving a
energy challenge and how National Grid is helping find solutions to some of the challenges we face
at www.nationalgridconnecting.com The National Grid
Energy Efficiency Innovation Award scheme was launched across National Grid's four gas distribution networks and provided a # 400k fund to support major innovations to tackle fuel poverty and deliver energy efficiency solutions in communities, with five agencies in total receiving a
Energy Efficiency Innovation Award
scheme was launched across National Grid's four gas distribution networks and provided a # 400k fund to support major innovations to tackle fuel poverty and deliver
energy efficiency solutions in communities, with five agencies in total receiving a
energy efficiency solutions in communities, with five agencies in total receiving awards.
Jenny Saunders OBE, Chief Executive of National
Energy Action (NEA), the national fuel poverty charity and one of the award
scheme judges said «Coordinated action
at a local level is key to helping the estimated 2.2 million households in living in fuel poverty in our communities and there is a wealth of knowledge, experience and passion amongst not for profit organisations seeking to address this problem across England.
In a speech
at the Economist UK
Energy Summit this morning, the minister pledged # 90 billion in a new domestic scheme aimed at revamping 14 million of the country's most energy - inefficient
Energy Summit this morning, the minister pledged # 90 billion in a new domestic
scheme aimed
at revamping 14 million of the country's most
energy - inefficient
energy - inefficient homes.
That year, prosecutors alleged, the first bribe
scheme began not long after Percoco, who had been a member of Cuomo's tiny inner circle, had dinner
at a Connecticut restaurant with Peter Galbraith Kelly, an executive with an
energy company that
at the time was trying to build a gas - fueled power plant in Orange County.
Two Cor executives — along with a former vice president
at an
energy company — are on trial with Percoco over whether they engaged in an alleged bribery
scheme in which payments allegedly flowed to Percoco and his wife in return for the former senior Cuomo adviser helping them.
In the other alleged
scheme, the
energy company, Competitive Power Ventures, and COR — both Howe clients — paid bribes to Joseph Percoco, who
at the time was either a top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo or, for a stint in 2014, the manager of Cuomo's reelection campaign.
An attorney for Peter Galbraith Kelly, Jr., for instance, who lobbied on behalf of Competitive Power Ventures, an
energy company once seeking certain regulatory approvals in New York, has argued that there are
at least four
schemes alleged by the government.
All these supports and promotion
schemes for liquid biofuels should be scrapped, because of overwhelming scientific evidence that using land to produce
energy crops delivers no climate benefits
at all once agricultural emissions and land - use change are taken into account.
Accelerator physicists
at the U.S. Department of
Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have successfully implemented an innovative
scheme for increasing proton collision rates
at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).
Speed reviews or speed dating Conducting «speed reviews»
at major conferences By Professor Philip Steinberg Speed - Dating movie reviews & Metacritic score: This high -
energy romantic comedy follows three bachelors, speeding through life and
scheming on women.
A well - designed lighting
scheme can not only save on
energy bills, it can have a positive impact on a child's performance and well - being
at school, writes Jo Jackson from the Lighting Industry Association.
By firing a beam of reverse polarity Chaos Emerald
energy at the planet, an evil being known as Dark Gaia is released from the planet's core through Eggman's
scheme.
I am not pushing for a lopsided approach emphasizing such payment
schemes:
energy efficiency
at home is neglected too and also needs a more muscular set of carrots and sticks.
(Reuters)-- China will extend subsidies for new
energy «green» vehicles to 2020, according to draft rules published on Tuesday, extending the current incentive
scheme which expires
at the end of 2015.
C. Technically, it is still possible to solve the climate problem, but there are two essential requirements: (1) a simple across - the - board (all fossil fuels) rising carbon fee [2] collected from fossil fuel companies
at the domestic source (mine or port of entry), not a carbon price «
scheme,» and the money must go to the public, not to government coffers, otherwise the public will not allow the fee to rise as needed for phase - over to clean
energy, (2) honest government support for, rather than strangulation of, RD&D (research, development and demonstration) of clean
energy technologies, including advanced generation, safe nuclear power.
But its proposed emissions intensity
scheme could boost green
energy without any hard target
at all.
I got started
at this issue in 2008/2009, when Obama proposed taxing
energy because of «AGW», I decided to investigate the various
schemes and their downsides.
From innovative transport
schemes in Paris, to the UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, and the clean
energy finance companies of New York, the publication uses «destinations» across the developing and developed world to highlight the factors for success and,
at times, the reasons for failure in efforts to increase the use of renewable
energy and
energy efficiency.
«
At present, governments» attempts to limit greenhouse - gas emissions through carbon cap - and - trade
schemes and to promote renewable and sustainable
energy sources are prob ¬ ably too late to arrest the inevitable trend of global warming,» the scientists write in a paper published online in the scientific journal, Nature Climate Change, on Monday, 14 October 2012.
Focusing on the latter, Jason Walsh looks
at the details of the Home
Energy Saving
scheme and speaks to key figures in the industry to get their views on the ingredients needed to make the
scheme a success
Location: Cameron Close, Freshwater, Isle of Wight Completion date: August 2015 Budget: Total
scheme costs circa # 4.9 m Passive house certification: Part certified with remainder pending Space heating demand (PHPP): 14.4 kWh / m2 / yr Heat load (PHPP): 9 W / m2 Primary
energy demand (PHPP): 98 kWh / m2 / yr Environmental assessment method: Code for Sustainable Homes level 3 Airtightness (at 50 Pascals): 0.48 ACH Energy performance certificate (EPC): B 84 - 88 Thermal bridging: Details developed to minimise thermal bridging, concentrating on critical junctions and window installa
energy demand (PHPP): 98 kWh / m2 / yr Environmental assessment method: Code for Sustainable Homes level 3 Airtightness (
at 50 Pascals): 0.48 ACH
Energy performance certificate (EPC): B 84 - 88 Thermal bridging: Details developed to minimise thermal bridging, concentrating on critical junctions and window installa
Energy performance certificate (EPC): B 84 - 88 Thermal bridging: Details developed to minimise thermal bridging, concentrating on critical junctions and window installations.
The largest utility in Virginia plans on cutting output
at or shutting its biomass - powered facilities, it has announced, as the US state remains undecided how it will treat the renewable
energy source in its planned cap - and - trade
scheme modelled after RGGI.
The correct question is «which carbon consumption penalty
scheme will achieve zero emissions
energy at the lowest cost»?
«EPA's proposal for controlling greenhouse gas emissions from about half the nation's electric power supply is a poorly disguised cap - and - tax
scheme that represents
energy and economic policy
at its worst,» Hal Quinn, president of the National Mining Association said in a statement.
Impatient with this kind of warning, some ultra-moderns are even now planning to impose their will on those forces by means of geoengineering
schemes aimed
at regulating the amount of solar
energy reaching the planet.
Host Annie Leonard introduces the
energy traders and Wall Street financiers
at the heart of this
scheme and reveals the «devils in the details» in current cap and trade proposals:...
As both the House and the Senate grapple with proposed carbon - cutting measures — carbon taxes and «cap - and - trade»
schemes for big CO2 emitters such as coal - fired power plants; increased Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for cars, SUVs, and trucks; and mandatory set - asides for clean renewable
energy in the mix of
energy generation options — emissions from aircraft seem,
at least for the time being, to have gone over the heads of most policymakers engaged in the rush to cut carbon emissions.
We have NO alternative
energy scheme that is doable on a large scale
at an acceptable cost.
Unfortunately, the failure of Copenhagen also keeps these forests
at risk because of the previous idiotic legislation / regulations previously agreed upon or promoted (Kyoto, cap & trade, U.S. renewable
energy schemes, etc.).
The global carbon market will be worth $ 46 billion in 2014, up 15 % from last year, as moves by the EU will boost prices and emissions trading
schemes evolve in Asia, analysts
at Bloomberg New
Energy Finance said in a report today.
Recent North American emissions
schemes such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and the Western Climate Initiative are looking
at ways of measuring and equalising the price of
energy «imports» that enter their trading region [7]
The new law, however, stipulates that the FIT
scheme will be reviewed
at least every three years and that if any changes are made to the government's Basic
Energy Plan, the
scheme will be reviewed based upon the content of the revised plan.
Storing carbon as CO2 in something like Carbon Capture & Storage
schemes requires huge infrastructure and some
energy but
at least we don't need the
energy involved in changing the chemistry of what we are storing.
Host Annie Leonard introduces the
energy traders and Wall Street financiers
at the heart of this
scheme and reveals the «devils in the details» in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what's really required to tackle the climate crisis.
By all means, consider artificial salt water pondages, subject to the issues raised upthread in relation to the Japanese trial, or marvel
at the (non renewable) achievements of Eraring
Energy, but please don't try to hide behind unsubstantiated and wishful
schemes which, if implemented, will have selected large dams in the Snowy rising and falling by enormous amounts daily.
Flexitricity, one of the companies coordinating businesses to take part in the
scheme, said commercial
energy users had reduced power
at 46 sites, mostly by «turning down building ventilation».
The heaving up of the drawbridge for new entrants to the UK's Renewables Obligation (RO)
scheme at the end of March signified another milestone in a global trend of shrinking government incentives for utility scale renewable
energy projects..