Author: Dan Lewis
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My email is no longer lewis.dan@btopenworld.com but dan@danlewis.org
I deleted lewis.dan@btopenworld.com some months ago and now another Dan Lewis has taken it ! The perils of having a name that many others have too.
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Return of the Quangos . . .
To the news again ! Congratulations to the All Party Public Administration Select Committee led by Bernard Jenkin MP for producing a report. I haven’t seen it yet but the headlines that I have are basically correct – as I explained in the Yorkshire Post a few months ago, this was no bonfire. Speaking on…
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Regional and Regeneration policies share the same fallacies . . .
Writing in the Yorkshire Post today, I described what was wrong with typical regional policy and how to do it much better. I suggested doing effective, boring and unpopular stuff like moving workers to the work (not the other way round) with more low cost roads and buses and paying lower wages and benefits in…
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Shale Gas – a new European energy revolution?
Under the aegis of Future Energy Strategies, I’ve organised an evening seminar on 20th January 2011 which seeks to answer this question, with the help of these three experts – Leigh Bolton of Holmwood Consulting, Nick Grealy of No Hot Air and Dr John Buggenhagen of San Leon Energy plc. To attend, please see here…
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UK Gas supplies – the pace and focus of change is far from enough
In the last 10 days, we’ve had a surprising amount of news about gas that requires some digestion. Starting with yesterday’s discovery of shale gas near Blackpool by Cuadrilla Resources – the best news that town has had in a long time. Then there’s the ongoing cold snap in the UK combined with a long…
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A couple new posts on the Chinese Yuan debate and Plug-in Hybrids
Ok, I need to update this site a bit more often. I’ve just written two posts. One for the Economic Policy Centre blog on the brewing China/USA dispute over trade and currency valuations and another for Future Energy Strategies blog on the great potential and thus far unanticipated outcomes of plug-in hybrids. Enjoy !
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Yes, we need Aircraft Carriers and Trident
In the ideal world, everyone would share and practice our values of Liberal Democracy or at least feel unthreatened by them and in no way want to undermine our freedom. Unfortunately, only perhaps 1 billion people of this planet’s 6.8 billion live under liberal democracy, a billion more in India have elective government which is…
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Don’t download Trusteer Rapport if you use Gotomypc !
HSBC is telling all its customers to download this programme – Trusteer Rapport. Unfortunately, it never occured to them to do the work and check for programme compatability with major software for small business customers. And www.gotomypc.com is very clearly not compatible – my pc is completely unaccesible ! It doesn’t help that Trusteer support…
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The Feed-In-Tariffs – finally revealed today
Ok, here they are. I have to say, they look pretty generous to me. I’m going to do some back of the envelope calculations and come back with a new table that shows the yield per technology. As I wrote recently in Utility Week, if we really do get a boom in micro-generation from the…
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The Global State of Carbon Capture and Storage
It’s here! The Global State of Carbon Capture and Storage 2009 A one-stop report for all you need to know on CCS. What is happening, what are the technologies, what are the problems, where are the opportunities? Read it at Future Energy Strategies