Gallowglaich

Offshore Wind to Save World From Climate Change The UK Daily Telegraph recently published an article by the talented and brilliant Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, someone occasionally very right wing in some areas but always spot on when it comes to energy matters. "Death Knell for Fossil Fuels? IEA Claims Offshore Wind can Power Humanity More Cheaply than Coal or Gas” www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/10/25/death-knell-fossil-fuels-iea-claims-offshore-wind-can-power/ Achieving 100% by 2040 via Wind and Solar PV is certainly "mathematically" and practically possible. These are things that I am supposed to know and should be able to demonstrate, otherwise in Technical Due Diligence world you can look pretty stupid at meetings with some smart legal and finance people if you make things up or seem a little "flaky" as one of the technical people. Whether it is all politically possible and cheap enough yet, well those are the main questions, with answers dep...

Behind all the distraction and soap opera games of counting heads and wondering if there may or may not be another time-wasting Plebiscite or an election barely anyone else in the world gives a shit about, it might be worth noting what June 2016 was all about.  Corporate taxation trickery, access to cheap offset debt and avoidance of the 1st January 2020 EU tax avoidance implementation. No Deal or Shit Deal or Fucking Meal Deal, it matters not for them which. The circus is precisely that.  www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/anti-tax-avoidance-package/ Prem Sikka:  Adequate capital rules changes Insolvency law reformation Abolition of tax relief on debt.  leftfootforward.org/2019/10/prem-sikka-how-companies-use-debt-to-line-their-pockets/?mc_cid=86f917fb81&mc_eid=d7aced6450 On Wednesday George Monbiot (probably England's best known climate and environmental writer), Green Party MEP Ellie Chowns and Jonathan Bartley (Deputy Leader of T...

The Flygskam concept may seem very worthy, but basically it's a nice PR/Marketing scheme aimed solely at raising awareness, which it seems to do. Fewer filled seats but a rising and ongoing quantity of flights means aviation impacts are rising. I recently flew to Manchester on a full plane. Client in US called for an all day meeting at Old Trafford football (soccer) ground. People from Edinburgh, London, Boston, Norway, somewhere else. If I had suggested paying someone to set up and run a 15 person Citrix or Skype business video conference for a day, which the Conf. centre can do easily. where powerpoints and documents can be freely shown live online, I suspect many would have baulked because they like their trips and hotels and evening dinners at soccer ground restaurants and day off next day and Business Class ego massage too much. So instead of a three hour well managed Conference call I have to spend a day and a half stuck on jam=packed planes, in airports trying to weave me t...

The People's Republic of China. Lovely place. Great people, so polite! Terrific business opportunities. Bottom end cost-base. Rising Middle Class. The Whole World Monitored 24/7 Huge investment potential for greedy people. Sweetest little government. Massive low-cost outsourcing upside potential for double digit returns. Dark money, tax avoidance, capital flight and easy-peasy to use shadow banks. World domination on the agenda. Keep me well away from it....  It's all real and it's what we all get too if Transatlantic Brex-Rand project succeeds. Potentially all very much worse than anything imagined in Black Mirror, 1984 or Brave New World. Zero Hedge -  Chinese Citizens Will Be Required To Scan Their Faces To Use The Internet, 8th October 2019. www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-citizens-will-be-required-scan-their-faces-use-internet Wired - Behind the Rise of China’s Facial Recognition Giants, 3rd September 2019. www.wired.com/story/behind-rise-chi...

Noor Abu Dhabi Solar in Desert and Dogger Bank Wind Power in North Sea Large scale clean energy is reaching a turning point in the Middle East with Solar PV plus desalination plants. This development is happening in tandem with cheaper offshore wind energy in Northern Europe: Noor Solar PV Plant Abu Dhabi Albawaba News: " Mapping the Middle East's $100 Billion Clean Energy Revolution", 3rd October 2019. www.albawaba.com/news/mapping-middle-easts-100-billion-clean-energy-revolution-1312707#_=_ Tech Spot: " UAE powers on Noor Abu Dhabi, the World's Largest Solar Project www.techspot.com/news/80740-uae-powers-noor-abu-dhabi-world-largest-solar.html UAE powers on Noor Abu Dhabi, the world's largest solar project - TechSpot Noor in Arabic means light, something which the new solar power project in Abu Dhabi will make plentiful use of to brighten up people's homes. As part of the country's initiative towards better ... www.techs...