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Climate Forecasts and Weather Forecasts. Understand the Differences.

Alan Baker

Nov 61 min read

Climate Forecasts and Weather Forecasts. Understand the Differences.

The software's used to create weather and climate forecast are significantly different. Weather forecast software is well development and...

Blind Green Belief? Fossil Fuel Propaganda? Click Bait? Governments Income Preservation Spin? 1990 experts who got it wrong? Data or Drama?

Alan Baker

Sep 82 min read

Blind Green Belief? Fossil Fuel Propaganda? Click Bait? Governments Income Preservation Spin? 1990 experts who got it wrong? Data or Drama?

What chance does Joe Public have in reaching any reasonable conclusion on what is really happening in the energy, climate and green...

Caterpillar to Butterfly. (A Butterfly is not a Caterpillar with wings).

Alan Baker

Sep 62 min read

Caterpillar to Butterfly. (A Butterfly is not a Caterpillar with wings).

Sometimes a good analogy simplifies and helps in our understanding of complex processes and change. For example, the massive changes now...

Your kids rights to breath clean air Vs Our rights to fossil fuel transport.

Alan Baker

Sep 21 min read

Your kids rights to breath clean air Vs Our rights to fossil fuel transport.

Getting the right message to the right people at the right time.

Repurposing Oil and Gas Assets for Deep Water Wind Turbines & Geothermal.

Alan Baker

Aug 302 min read

Repurposing Oil and Gas Assets for Deep Water Wind Turbines & Geothermal.

A way and route for Oil and Gas companies to repurpose their people expertise and physical assets in other ways away from fossil fuels...

Alan Baker

Aug 274 min read

Politics of Pollution

I find it hard to watch videos of actual fossil fuel pollution being created. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHkpkWwAAT8 I min on You...

Green Sustainable Electric Aviation on the Up. More flight duration, range, reliability and payload is available while costs are on the way down.

Alan Baker

Apr 91 min read

Green Sustainable Electric Aviation on the Up. More flight duration, range, reliability and payload is available while costs are on the way down.

Electric Aviation is now credible and affordable and no longer the preserve of the Jetsons. Its quiet, its increasingly affordable and...

Alan Baker

Mar 251 min read

Get us rewired. Fast.

Our Electrical Grid power distribution lines lack capacity and are, in wire life terms, old and quite literally sagging. Sustainability...

Alan Baker

Mar 201 min read

Get a ZEB ! Zero Emission Boiler.

The energy generation and demand map is changing. It is complex (not just complicated). Pricing mechanisms are dysfunctional and born out...

COP 28 reasons on how this forum has been hijacked by the Petroleum propaganda machine.

Alan Baker

Dec 6, 20232 min read

COP 28 reasons on how this forum has been hijacked by the Petroleum propaganda machine.

The tricks to the still increasing use of petroleum.

Alan Baker

Oct 23, 20232 min read

Don´t mention the ´´C´´ word. (Climate)

People don´t like change. Any suggestion of a reduction in standards of living being part of any climate solution is understandably...

Geothermal. A Real Green, Sustainable alternative to Wind, Solar and Hydro?

Alan Baker

Aug 24, 20235 min read

Geothermal. A Real Green, Sustainable alternative to Wind, Solar and Hydro?

Clean Energy supporting big oil and gas.

Alan Baker

Jul 20, 20231 min read

Getting the doubters onside.

Real action to educate and win over hearts and minds. A 30 minute you tube video with journalist Quentin Willson in discussion with...

The Energy Bill. The UK Goverment supports high electricity prices.

Alan Baker

Jun 20, 20231 min read

The Energy Bill. The UK Goverment supports high electricity prices.

The Energy Bill presently going through process included a great part allowing local communities, where, for example a school, sports...

Your Car as your home back up, Tariff optimiser, Grid income provider and even Personal Transport.

Alan Baker

May 15, 20235 min read

Your Car as your home back up, Tariff optimiser, Grid income provider and even Personal Transport.

The new perspective on personal transport. Your car can be much, much more. People understandably measure car ownership costs and benefits...

Iron Ore is 94% of all global mining at 3,040,000,000 tonnes. Lithium is 0.00003% or 97,500 tonnes.

Alan Baker

Apr 15, 20231 min read

Iron Ore is 94% of all global mining at 3,040,000,000 tonnes. Lithium is 0.00003% or 97,500 tonnes.

A surprising reality check on mining. Rob Llewellyn of Everything Electric fame You Tube video, (minute 2.40 to minute 7.00) puts a data...

The Future of Battery Recycling? A low energy chemical process to recover battery materials.

Alan Baker

Mar 20, 20232 min read

The Future of Battery Recycling? A low energy chemical process to recover battery materials.

At present the recovery of battery metals generally follows a long established process of shipping/transporting ´scrap´ to massive high...

Lilium (electric) Jet Air Taxi reaches 250kph.

Alan Baker

Mar 12, 20231 min read

Lilium (electric) Jet Air Taxi reaches 250kph.

Article here 5 minute read Lilium Air Mobility. Web Site. The VTOL craft took a big step forward in its target 2025 full certification...

Sucking CO2 from our air. Useful? Credible? Distraction?

Alan Baker

Mar 9, 20231 min read

Sucking CO2 from our air. Useful? Credible? Distraction?

A New Capture Method. Transforming CO2 to Bicarbonate of Soda. 5 minute Read. Click Here This technology is interesting, it is very small...

We're burning 100m barrels
of oil a day and rising. Our addiction to oil is growing not falling.

Alan Baker

Feb 21, 20231 min read

We're burning 100m barrels of oil a day and rising. Our addiction to oil is growing not falling.

Painful listening. A chilling reality check on the realities of global oil production, refining and supply. HC Insider Podcast Feb 2023...