Denmark gets 24% of its electricity from wind power, Spain 11%. It isnt that difficult to find such information, or information on ecohouses, yet sadly you dont seem to have haven’t looked it up.

Please check your facts before making assertions, so you can then give a link to demonstrate what you mean. Such as ‘I know ventilation is just as important as insulation for health !!’ How do you know this? And I didn’t say that insulation was important for health, its important for reducing waste!

You speak of increasing wind power generation eventually, I want it to be as soon as possible, why wait?

You talk about the wind not blowing as this was a new. As I stated already, you cant rely on more than around 30% power from wind, but as the UK is nearer 2% we are nowhere close to this.

Quantum in its most basic terms is the packets of energy that are produced by atomic structures. A quanta being the smallest step change or packet that can be produced. Quantum mechanics is essentially logical, but can and does become less reliable when attempting to understand large amounts of gas, we may be better served by chaos theory when trying to pin down such massive effects. In other words Quantum can be appealed to but justify the maths.

In fact not only is Co2 not a pollutant, it is vital gas that underpins our complex ecology. I understand this and personal I feel that the Americans may be just a tad responsible to the distortion. Methane is a more insidious danger and it appears from the Ice Core record that this gas has been high in other Climate change events.
The US cattle trade being a very large contributor to the increase in this gas in the atmosphere. My concern is that we raise the temperature to far at the seabed, resulting in a very large release of further Methane liberated from the Hydrate reserve, a considerable amount of which exists. Of course if we could find a way to remove the Methane hydrate we could burn it. Methane is in fact an excellent fuel which when properly burnt becomes many times less damaging than if released directly. We should of course be looking at ways to trap and burn Methane

“you will spend thousands heating your home in cold winters ” – exactly COLD WINTERS.

Great term ‘diddly squat’ – so which developed contries produce 10-20% of their power then from this source?

“You may wish to keep developing countries in poverty” – insulting statement from someone who has no idea of the work I do or my views, does this reflect the quality of your logic and arguement?? However, I will tell you this, poverty in some countires is not the fault of people in others, and more than the poverty in some houses is the fault of others.

“Fair share of resources” is a emotive Marxist term. Countries have different resources and then we trade, that is what the economic theories of trade are all about, and which bring advantage to everyone – provided they do not saddle themselves with dictators and socialist governments. And if you are worried about the fair share of resources in your terms, then I would worry more about what the Chinese are doing in Africa if I were you.

Some of us already have solar panels, and when the sun shines it HELPS heat water, however in the UK this is unlikely to be the way we heat all water in the near future. Maybe in the more distant future new technologies may emerge. Green industries may indeed produce more jobs, but if we householders are all so poor through taxes that we cannot keep up to and improve our houses, then those jobs will not materialise.

AGW is a complete myth. Mann , Gore , Jones , Trenbeth, Briffa (set out this theory which the blogger disagrees with -ed). Four of these individuals are the core of the UN IPCC and Gore was their frontman. This month on American TV Gore claimed that the temperature 2 kms below our feet was 2 – 3 million degrees – the surface of the sun is cooler than that. (Personal attacks on Gore and Obama left out-ed)

Nobody wants pollution but CO2 is not a pollutant. All life on Earth depends on it. It is also not able to absorb a lot of IR – this is what the quantum means in quantum mechanics. In fact it only absorbs at three frequencies in the IR band and at ambient temperatures in our atmosphere cannot interact with the 300 micron band – although that causes a vibrational transition in H2O, interestingly (0.4 – 4% of our atmosphere compared to 0.013% CO2).

The calculation produced by Svente Arrhenius in 1896, on the back of a fag packet, that the planet is 33C warmer than it should be is (wrong-ed). It does not take account of all heat transfer processes like conduction and convection. See Gerhard and Tscheuschner, contemporary mathematical physicists, (some straightforward calculus but mostly qualitative) – I’m sorry I can’t be bothered posting hyperlinks tonight.

‘YouTube’ has any number of videos debunking this nonsense.

Russians generally do not believe this & the Russian Academy of Sciences has played an honourable role in refuting this. An example of our media censorship is that Andrey Illarionov, a free market advisor of Putin whose statements on Putin, when he resigned, were massively trumpeted by our media has also said ““Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism.” wghich, with the honesty, integrity & impariality which our media so enthusiastically display, was massively, indeed entirely, censored by them

There are many factors to making an eco house, this is not the place for a list of them. It would include water saving, energy saving, using low energy construction etc.
If wind turbines provide so little energy, why do some countries get 10 to 20% of their power from them? ‘Diddly squat’ indeed.

You may wish to keep developing countries in poverty, others think everyone in the world should have a more fair share of resources.

After insulating homes, green jobs could be found by getting solar hot water on every roof. There are many millions of homes, some in very poor condition.

A well insulated house needs little heating in cold conditions, its also good at keeping the heat out.

Anyone whose emails were hacked into would have some embarrassment revealed to the world. We say things to friends that are not meant for the public.

This is as big an issue as the alleged (misleading of the puboic -ed). Potentially bigger. The case for (substantial misleading-ed) is convincing, but still unproven. The standards issue is systemic and easily proven. ( I’ve posted more on this on CH. )

John, this is absolutely the case. Acceptance of AGW is about to change our society. So this is potentially the most important paragraph that you have ever written in your political life. In agreement with others who have posted, you should add transparency to this. [ There is no excuse for the material not being public domain, and this would have flagged up the problems much earlier ]

BTW. Thanks to the CEGB building the 400kV supergrid, the lights remain on in the south of England, where there is a lack of generation capability.

The system end to end looses about 7% not masses as stated elsewhere. The gas network looses a bit more, powering compressors to push it around the pipes, and storing gas in the pipes and the few storage volumes we have.

The electricity grid and the gas grid are now interconnected; because of the large amount of gas fired CCGT electric on the system.

After round 3 offshore licensing, there could be up to 39 GW of windmills around our coasts, eventually. Peak demand will be around 60 – 65 GW. So apart from paying through the nose for these turbines how much will the guys providing the back-up want paying for when the wind don’t blow? Fortunately the lads at NG are on the case.

There is a big future in HVDC connectors to the continent. Our UK electric suppliers won’t talk about those much; inter-connectors mean foreign competition!!!

http://www.nationalgrid.com/uk/sys_09/default.asp?action=mnch10_13.htm&Node=SYS&Snode=10_13&E=Y