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Comment on Converting to Bioenergy: Benefits and Challenges by wingclipped

wingclipped — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:03:39 +0000

Tim – Many thanks! Nic

Comment on Converting to Bioenergy: Benefits and Challenges by timprobert

timprobert — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:05:40 +0000

Thank you for your comments.

The emissions reduction figure is based purely on the combustion performance of the plant. Shipping 50,000 tonnes of wood on a ship straight to port (and without any road haulage to Tilbury) can be thought to be fairly ‘green’ given the volumes involved.

The energy costs of felling the timber, chipping it and drying it is a good question…

The structures on the jetty are ship unloaders, in this case dust-suppressing vacuum ship unloaders, linked to an elutriator (or de-dusting building).If you’d like more detailed info, email me at timprobert@millicentmedia.com for some slides.

Comment on Converting to Bioenergy: Benefits and Challenges by wingclipped

wingclipped — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:35:15 +0000

A question about the reduction of emissions if I may, and apologies if this is a bit naive! Are the statistics quoted inclusive of the carbon footprint in creating and transporting the pellets across from the US/Canada? We were walking past the power station recently and I knew it was convertin to biomass, but we were pondering just how green it really was given the industrial processes and transportation of the pellets.

ps If you also happen to know what the two enormous counter-balanced structures are on the jetty I’d also love to find out! We stood hypothesising for about 10 minutes but just couldn’t work out what they were…

Comment on The Rough Guide to Community Energy – free book by Dragan

Dragan — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:14:53 +0000

Great job. Well done!

Comment on Cuadrilla in Balcombe: A fracking PR disaster by andrewolib

andrewolib — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:23:37 +0000

Dear Justine,

I am currently completing work on a Public Affairs Diploma with the CIPR.

http://www.cipr.co.uk/courses/cipr-public-affairs-diploma

For my final assignment I have chosen to write about public meetings, persuasion and public acceptance in the context of shale gas exploration in the UK and Ireland.

I live in Brighton, so have partly chosen to look at this because Balcombe is not too far away and I need to have a realistic target group of people to interview.

The paper I am preparing will not be for public consumption, and is purely for the purposes of my course. Would you be prepared to answer a few questions. I am thinking of setting up in a pub in Balcombe for a day at some point in March and trying to conduct short interviews for my study with up to 10 people who attended the meeting.

I look forward to hearing from you and I hope you don’t mind helping. If you have any friends who attended the meeting and are willing to be interviewed too this would be great.

I will be of course be willing to buy everyone a drink.

Best Wishes

Andrew Oliver

andrew.oliver@parlicom.com
Tel +44 1273 690045 (Until Feb 28th 2012)
Tel +44 1273 602687 (From March 1st 2012)
Mobile +44 7968236711

Comment on British Geological Survey: Cuadrilla’s shale gas estimate unreliable, to release new figure by El Sid

El Sid — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:40:32 +0000

@Tim
The fact that the BGS say their figure of 4.7tcf is arrived at by using “the recovery rate for Barnett shale” makes me think that it’s 4.7tcf recoverable, compared to Cuadrilla’s 200tcf gas in place. So much of the discrepancy is through not comparing like-for like; but even a 10% recovery of 200tcf would mean you’re quadrupling the resource. Which is just about plausible – Cuadrilla have indicated that their gas contents are at least as good as anything in the US, but I suspect their problems will come in faulting (UK has been crunched more than the middle of a continent like North America), planning permission and possibly ease of fraccing.

Comment on The Rough Guide to Community Energy – free book by Dragan

Dragan — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:20:18 +0000

Great blog. Thanks!

Comment on Converting to Bioenergy: Benefits and Challenges by Salman Zafar

Salman Zafar — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:01:19 +0000

Reblogged this on Cleantech Solutions and commented: An interesting post on the importance of robust supply chains in biomass energy project.

Comment on British Geological Survey: Cuadrilla’s shale gas estimate unreliable, to release new figure by Keine Schiefergas Revolution in Europa? | Unkonventionelle Gasförderung

Keine Schiefergas Revolution in Europa? | Unkonventionelle Gasförderung — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:52:00 +0000

[...] it by the land area of Bowland. Cuadrilla’s estimate of 200 tcf is about 40 times higher.Quelle: http://millicentmedia.com/2011/11/02/british-geological-survey-cuadrilla%E2%80%99s-shale-gas-estimat…In Polen gibt es momentan erhebliche Anstrengungen, die Schiefergasförderung auszubauen. Trotz [...]

Comment on Cuadrilla in Balcombe: A fracking PR disaster by gasdrillinginbalcombe

gasdrillinginbalcombe — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:29:20 +0000

New Cuadrilla docs show Balcombe water IS vulnerable to fracking:
http://gasdrillinginbalcombe.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/cuadrilla-documents-balcombe-water-vulnerable-to-fracking/