UK energy flows 2012
I am on holiday this week, but want to try and keep Energy Matters ticking along with a couple of very short posts with complicated charts. The above chart is called a Sankey diagram produced by DECC....
View ArticleUkraine: Russia holds all the aces
Ukraine is also of major strategic importance to Europe since several gas pipelines cross the country transporting Russian gas to Europe. Europe is also heavily dependent upon oil and coal imports from...
View ArticleEgypt – energy, population and economy
Decline in oil and gas exports and increasing cost of food imports resulted in Egypt's trade deficit with the rest of the world growing to £12 billion in 2012 [2]. Debt : GDP stands at a manageable 81%...
View ArticleUkrainian Death Spiral
Russia has raised natural gas prices to Ukraine twice this week. There is a risk of mounting chaos. Continue reading →
View ArticleTurkey – on its way to a mature economy
Turkey is energy poor, has essentially no oil and gas production and imports significant amounts of oil, gas and coal. It has broken free of developing nation status and is on its way to becoming a...
View ArticleBelarus grows while Ukraine withers
Since the mid 1990s the Belarusian economy recovered, showing strong annual growth and is now on a par with Turkey. This is a very different story to Ukraine where the economy, that was showing feeble...
View ArticleChina – the coal monster
In 2012 China consumed 50.4% of all coal produced on Earth. Most, but not all of that coal was produced in China, mainly from deep underground mines. Like Europe and the USA before it, China's...
View ArticleEnergy and Mankind part 1
FF and to a lesser extent nuclear power created the developed world that most of us live in; they created society's surpluses we know as savings, pensions and wealth; they created prosperity beyond the...
View ArticleFossil Fuels and Mankind
It has become popular to demonise fossil fuels (FF). Pop stars, press, politicians and now Pontiffs speak with a single voice: Continue reading →
View ArticleDecoupling wealth creation, energy consumption and CO2 emissions
Some recent media articles have claimed that global GDP growth is no longer being accompanied by growth in energy consumption and CO2 emissions, or in other words that wealth creation and energy have...
View ArticleThe Externalities of Energy Production Systems
The economics term externality is a cost or benefit accrued by a third party from the actions of others where the third party did not choose to acquire said costs or benefits. The term has been widely...
View ArticleEnergy Externalities Day 2: Gas-fired-CCGT
Day 2 of The Energy Externality Game and we are assessing gas fired power generation using a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT). In scoring gas we need to take into account the whole of the gas...
View ArticleEnergy and Man part 1
Much of the energy debate at present is based around the risks associated with energy procurement systems; emissions from burning fossil fuels (FF) and radiation hazards linked to nuclear power. New...
View ArticleEnergy and Man part 3
If you look back at the history of Energy and Mankind, in 1950, nuclear power was the energy source of the future. The only power source that could not just rival FF but was superior to it. The future...
View ArticleEntropy, Energy and Order in the Universe
Guest post by Geo who posted this comment on my recent post on Energy and Man Part 2. It is easy to get caught up in discussions over what types of energy we should use, and how we should use …...
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