Lib Dem Voice will be providing enhanced coverage of this Spring’s Lib Dem Conference – live from Liverpool.
Voice reporters will be at the Liverpool Arena with all the inside information from the movers and shakers on the conference floor, and up-to-the-minute coverage of the Conference fringe and exhibitions.
Lib Dem Voice has also been granted unique and privileged access to the Federal Conference Committee as they debate the inner workings of Conference.
We’ll be hoping to bring you podcast interviews and an interesting multimedia experience as and when it happens. And whether you’re attending conference in person, or watching from afar, we hope you’ll join us for the weekend.
We are looking for writers to help us cover conference with reports on the key debates and experiences. The first two people to volunteer to file a piece from Liverpool will take home an exclusive, dishwasher-proof Lib Dem Voice mug, so if you want to take part, drop me a line at [email protected]
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Sounds great Alex. Wish I could be there with you guys.
Are we being told the truth about energy prices?
Is it not the case that we have all been told to get our act to-geather and buy low energy light bulbs, change our boiler to save energy. Which would mean less energy use, which in turn would mean less profit for the energy companies, who now appear to make up this loss through increased prices.
Why can there not be a not-for-profit energy company, with no shareholders, putting money back into green alternatives in the UK (both small and large generators), and offering advice and help to developing countries who sells energy at a discount rate to those who can’t afford to support shareholders or the stockmarket?
Sometimes I worry about Lib Dems . . .
I like the comment by Clare above. Lets concentrate our efforts on alternative energy sources. Some years ago, I heard a remour that someone had invented a method by which vehicles could be run on water. Apparently the method was purchased by the fuel companies in order to protect their future profits. Is there any truth in this – is this alternative just around the corner?
When I see the3 fast current of our big rivers I am surprised no-one has thought to harness this resource with a water paddle system just before each drop in level. The seas waves could also be harnessed so that the paddles would operate in either direction for ingoing or outgoing tides – obviously not at seaside resorts but at many sites around the coast. The initial cost would almost certainly be cheaper than building more nuclear power stations and certainly more environmentally friendly. Perhaps we could petition the government to carry out a costing exercise. Or should we be better to wait until we are in power!!??
Food for thought if nothing else!
“Some years ago, I heard a remour that someone had invented a method by which vehicles could be run on water. Apparently the method was purchased by the fuel companies in order to protect their future profits. Is there any truth in this – is this alternative just around the corner?”
Complete nonsense, I’m afraid. See the Laws of thermodynamics. Yet another variant on the perpetual motion machine.
It is indeed, perfectly possible to run a car on water, but first you have to hydrolyse the water to hydrogen & oxygen which needs energy.Lots of it.
http://www.badscience.net/?cat=83
John Stephen is abit behind the times. There are currently 20 Micro Hydro watermills operating in the Mendip District Council North Dorset for a smaller number in watermills on the Stour. The biggest problems are the reluctance of some Mill owners (even though they have no use for the mills themselves) and the cost of water extraction licences which are a requirement of the government. Even though the water used to run the turbines is NOT actually taken out of the river,but merely diverted fort a short distance before resuming its previous course.
correction to my previous. There should have been a fullstop after Mendip DC. Then it should read: There are currently talks going on in North Dorset.
When I see the3 fast current of our big rivers I am surprised no-one has thought to harness this resource with a water paddle system just before each drop in level.
Just to post something open to misconstruction, what’s important with hydro-electric power is head not flow. Water has to fall to get useable amounts of power.