Thursday, 11 June 2009
Home - Department of Energy and Climate Change
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Statistics available from http://stats.berr.gov.uk/uksa/energy/sa20090528.htm
Subject and table number
Title
Total Energy 1.1 Indigenous production of primary fuels
1.2 Inland energy consumption: primary fuel input basis
Coal 2.4
Coal production and foreign trade 2.5 Coal consumption
2.6 Stocks of coal
Oil 3.10 Indigenous production, refinery receipts, imports and exports
3.11 Stocks of petroleum
3.12 Refinery throughput and output of petroleum products
3.13 Deliveries of petroleum products for inland consumption
Gas 4.2 Natural gas production and supply
4.3 Natural gas imports and exports
Electricity 5.3 Fuel used in electricity generation by major producers
5.3 wind Fuel used in electricity generation by major producers including wind data
5.4 Electricity production and availability from the public supply system
5.4 wind Electricity production and availability from the public supply system including wind data
5.5 Availability and consumption of electricity
Temperatures 6.1 Average temperatures and deviations from the long term mean
6.2 Average wind speed and deviations from the long term mean
Prices 2.1.1 Retail prices index: fuel components
2.1.2 Retail prices index: fuel components, relative to GDP inflator
2.1.3 Retail prices index: fuels components monthly figures
4.1.1 Typical retail prices of petroleum products and a crude oil price index (monthly data)
4.1.2 Typical retail prices of petroleum products and a crude oil price index (annual data)
5.1.1 Premium unleaded petrol prices in the EU
5.2.1 Diesel prices in the EU
Thursday, 4 June 2009
Water Poverty Index
How to read the graph?
The WPI assesses water poverty from 5 different perspectives: available resources, use of them, access to water (water supply, sanitation and irrigated land), capacity of exploitation, as well as environmental sustainability factors. In each category up to 20 points can be reached (=best situation).
The WPI is a holistic water management tool that is mainly relevant at the community level, but can also be applied at any spatial scale up to the basin or national levels.
Water Monitoring Alliance : indices
http://www.ceh.ac.uk/sections/hrr/documents/WPI4pageleaflet_000.pdf
http://www.ceh.ac.uk/sections/ph/documents/WPIworldmap_2.pdf
Thirst of the cities drives the giant drills to water China's parched north | World news | guardian.co.uk
More than twice as expensive as the Three Gorges Dam and three times longer than the railway to Tibet, the 50-year, $62bn (£40.67bn) project aims to channel a greater volume than the Thames along three channels – each more than 600 miles long – from the moist Yangtze basin up to the dry lands above the Yellow river.
At Jiaozuo, giant drills have already gouged out more than half of the 2.5 mile-long tunnel that will take the water under the Yellow river. At the foot of the construction shaft, the nine-metre wide concrete pipe stretches into the dark far below the farm fields that stretch towards the river. "This is a first in the history of the Yellow," one of the engineers, Han Jiping, says proudly. "There is nothing to compare."
South-to-North Water Diversion Project - Water Technology
With China hosting the Olympic Games and water from the South-to-North Water Diversion Project – the largest of its kind ever undertaken – scheduled to begin supplying a thirsty Beijing, 2008 is shaping up to be a major showcase year for the country. This massive scheme has already taken 50 years from conception to commencement and is expected to take almost as long again to construct. Planned for completion in 2050, it will eventually divert 44.8 billion m³ of water annually to the population centres of the drier north.
When finished, the work will link China’s four main rivers – the Yangtze, Yellow River, Huaihe and Haihe – and requires the construction of three diversion routes, stretching south-to-north across the eastern, central and western parts of the country.
The complete project is expected to cost $62bn – more than twice as much as the country’s controversial Three Gorges Dam.
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
Water Issues CHINA
The rivers in China support one-third of the world's population yet the country faces severe environmental challenges. This interactive map illustrates some of the most pressing water-related issues in China and how problems that originate upstream are inherited by those living downstream, even those living in other countries.
Sunday, 31 May 2009
Theme 2009: Transboundary water - World Water Day
Theme 2009: Transboundary water - World Water Day
•WWD 2008 World Water Day 2008
•WWD 2005 World Water Day 2005
•WWD 2004 2004: Water and Disasters
•WWD 2003 2003: Water for the Future
•WWD 2002 2002: Water for Development
•WWD 2001 2001: Water and Health
•WWD 2000 2000: Water for the 21st Century
•2000: Water for the 21st Century
•WWD 1999 1999: Everyone Lives Downstream
•1999: Everyone Lives Downstream
•WWD 1998 1998: Groundwater - the Invisible Resource
•1998: Groundwater - the Invisible Resource
•WWD 1997 1997: The World's Water: Is There Enough?
•1997: The World's Water: Is There Enough?
•WWD 1996 1996: Water for Thirsty Cities
•1996: Water for Thirsty Cities
•WWD 1995 1995: Women and Water
Friday, 29 May 2009
Survival International - The movement for tribal peoples
Survival is the only international organization supporting tribal peoples worldwide. We were founded in 1969 after an article by Norman Lewis in the UK's Sunday Times highlighted the massacres, land thefts and genocide taking place in Brazilian Amazonia. Like many modern atrocities, the racist oppression of Brazil's Indians took place in the name of 'economic growth'.
Today, Survival has supporters in 82 countries. We work for tribal peoples' rights in three complementary ways: education, advocacy and campaigns. We also offer tribal people themselves a platform to address the world. We work closely with local indigenous organizations, and focus on tribal peoples who have the most to lose, usually those most recently in contact with the outside world.
We believe that public opinion is the most effective force for change. Its power will make it harder, and eventually impossible, for governments and companies to oppress tribal peoples.
Thursday, 28 May 2009
BBC NEWS | Technology | Broadband World: Mapping the global picture
More than a billion people around the world are connected to the net, but speed of access ranges from dial-up to fibre optic connections.
Use this map to explore the state of our Broadband World across eight different countries, as explained by BBC correspondents and reporters.
See also:
A tale of two broadband villages
UK 'broadband notspots' revealed
NEWS | Technology | Broadband World: Mapping the global picture
Hawai'i Short Term SO2 Alert Index
The information on this page provides current sulfur dioxide (SO2) levels due to the Kilauea Volcano on the Island of Hawai'i. Click on the site links for current day
historical data. For additional information about other air pollutants, please visit
Monday, 25 May 2009
Wind energy facts - Interesting energy facts
Wind energy is a renewable energy source.
Wind energy is a pollution-free energy source.
Wind energy is very abundant energy source in many parts of the USA.
Wind energy is mostly used to generate electricity.
Wind energy is mostly used renewable energy source.
Wind energy unlike some thought very economically competitive.
Wind energy is one of the lowest-priced renewable energy sources.
Wind Energy Fact Sheets
Wind Energy Fact SheetsAWEA's Wind Energy Fact Sheets provide up-to-date information on wind energy development, economics, cost competitiveness, and environmental compatibility.
Why renewable energy from wind turbines?
Why wind energy? Wind is an abundant source of energy that will never run out. It's also the world's fastest growing energy source and in the UK we're lucky enough to have around 40% of Europe's wind resource, potentially enough to power the country 3 or 4 times over.
World's biggest offshore wind farm approved for Thames estuary site
Plans to build the world's largest offshore wind farm off the coast of south-east England were approved by ministers yesterday in a move that could eventually bring 341 turbines to the Thames estuary.The £1.5bn scheme, called London Array, could generate 1,000 megawatts of power, enough to meet about 1% of the UK's electricity needs.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8046958.stm
World's biggest offshore wind farm approved for Thames estuary site Environment The Guardian
Water Videos
General
•UNICEF on MDGs and water ,supply, health, women, link to Development Gap 2mins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXR4Z_NBD-E&feature=related
•World water day and water wars - Ethiopia ,Somalia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqLmxeRW9Uw&feature=relatedhttp://pulitzercenter.org/s
MEDCS
•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqLmxeRW9Uw&feature=related Part 1 + 2 Running on Empty 2009 Part 1 conflicts eg Rio Grande USA-Mexico issue, supply, pollution, health in El Paso by colonials , desalinisation
•Water Wars Oregon/California Klamath River agriculture conflicts with Indians salmon fishing, management, allocations, Part 2 on Arizona Extra refs: http://soil4463.okstate.edu/lectures/klamath_river_case.htm
•Water Wars-USA Arizona Beaver Dam, housing and golf increases aquifers, climate change 2 parts both 4mins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy4WmRBUmW0&feature=PlayList&p=40BE83CEFA4B2C3F&index=0
•Australia water deficit – management conservation, efficiency http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U29xdvLBUIs&feature=PlayList&p=822A7C14FFBF4F09&index=0&playnext=1
NICs and LEDCs
•Kenya eg Kimana wetlands. Conflicts, pollution ,tension, Maasai, Amboseli, conservation ,tourism. sustainable management http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLNCZBEByg8 wetlands international organisation 5mins
•China-Olympics-diversions/transfers of water from S to N- technological fix to help become superpower 5mins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMZ6mGM39As
Water Wars eg
Namibia and Botswana row over Okavango wetlands 20minshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5krdot_eOE&feature=related
River Jordan Israel Palestine 16minshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U29xdvLBUIs&feature=PlayList&p=822A7C14FFBF4F09&index=0&playnext=1
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