Photo: Bejamin Nicholls I enjoyed some inspiring presentations by young people from Hexham in last Saturday’s Hexham Debate, ‘Climate Crisis: Young Person’s perspective’ organised with Tynedale Transformed. Great insights from the local to the global perspective with an audience of all ages and worth another watch. I think we all wholeheartedly agree that local action is needed. Long-established, local environmental group ‘Transition Tynedale’ was wrongly credited with organising the event, (Courant, January 28). We do however form part of the solution and have been working on various local projects for the last ten years. Current projects centre on increasing biodiversity on private and public land and reducing food miles.
Economics of Solar Energy Failures Have Been Ignored
Today’s best lithium-ion batteries have only a fraction of the energy density of hydrocarbons from oil and gas. Dec. 16, 2020 3:11 pm ET
Talk about irony. In the Dec. 12 paper one article (Exchange, “The Dicey Economics of Oil”) asks, “Does investing in oil and gas still make sense?” while later in the same issue “Another Green Subsidy Bust” (Review & Outlook) describes the Tonopah Solar Energy boondoggle. Today’s best lithium-ion batteries have only a fraction of the energy density of hydrocarbons from oil and gas. Until that fundamental problem is fixed, there will always be a place for oil and gas.