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Beyond_cheap_fuel · Dorchester Berinsfield Drayton Oxon

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  • Members: 123
  • Category: Energy
  • Founded: Mar 19, 2006
  • Language: English
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This is a group dedicated to the serious business of dealing with the blunt reality that the world is running out of cheap energy. We will have oil and gas for many years yet, but it will no longer be cheap, wholesale the price of gas has already gone up threefold in the past two years. As someone who works at the mighty Didcot Power Station, I am only too aware of the battle the power industry is having to fight to keep the lights on - This is the reason I have set up this group. This group isn't directly about saving the planet, or promoting green energy, it's about basic economic survival. It's about the very real energy problems that will face ordinary people in the area of 2010 and beyond. Problems that are going to get worse, MUCH worse. By the time all those new promised energy sources cut in, we will be in a huge recession that will make the 1970's oil crisis seam like a minor hiccup. This group is not to debate atomic power, or wind farms, it is about dealing with YOUR OWN problems concerning your own energy needs, so it will only debate wind power, when as a group we debate about actually putting up our own wind generators. So if your favourite energy source is atomic power, then you are also welcome to join in if you think you can build us a community fusion reactor!;-). This group is about what people can do on an individual (perhaps installing solar water heating panels), As neighbours (installing a wind turbine to supply three homes maybe), of as a community (perhaps building a small wind farm, or a coppice to grow firewood). It is also there to serve as an encouragement to others on the internet community to think about and engineer local scale energy solutions. Ultimately, this group is about how people can continue to live the 21st Century lifestyle, as energy and water consumption is forced down by runaway fuel and utillity prices.

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Posted - Sat Sep 6, 2008 12:17 am
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I've gone and bought a small electric runabout-ebay item no. 1702357
Hi All, Check out ebay item no. 170235709758 I've been fiddling about with keeping it charged up with a small wind generator (1.2m rotor) once the main charger
Posted - Sat Sep 6, 2008 12:14 am
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Re: Beyond cheap fuel has no interest?
Hi - Yes it has been a bit quiet, I myself have been occupied elsewhere, rather ironic given that the 'beyond cheap fuel' situation is really hitting home.
Posted - Fri Sep 5, 2008 11:54 pm
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Beyond cheap fuel has no interest?
I wonder why there is no interest in this group. The subject should be up to date and there are frequent new members signing on but no messages. My first post
Posted - Fri Sep 5, 2008 11:41 pm
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Beyond Oil Countries and the $45 trillion Challenge
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has just published a report, which amongst other things, states that $45 trillion is needed for investment in non oil
Posted - Sun Jun 8, 2008 3:16 pm
Meir Javedanfar
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