Energy subsidies – fossil fuels versus renewables
The costs and benefits of different energy sources for electricity generation is a popular choice for student projects but specific data can be difficult to come by. Following a recent…
2014
London ‘Super Sewer’ approved
Planning permission granted today for the £4.2bn Thames Tidesway Tunnel to assure London’s continued compliance with the 1991 EC Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive. Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/11091626/Water-bills-to-rise-by-80-as-London-super-sewer-approved.html Further Information: http://www.thamestidewaytunnel.co.uk/
Historic oil and coal production data – August 2014 update
The Department of Energy and Climate Change has released updated data showing UK coal and oil production, exports and imports 1890 to 2013. North Sea crude oil production ‘took off’…
Robert Howard’s history of typhus
Howard, R. (1844) A history of the typhus of Heptonstall-Slack, which prevailed as an endemic during the winter of 1843-4 ; accompanied by remarks on the sanatory state of that…
Jake Bugg
Jake Bugg has said in many interviews that he fell in love with music after hearing Don McLean’s song Vincent on an episode of The Simpsons. Jake saw Don in…