Re: MFS: - Metal Fuel System

Zero carbon-emission electrical power, hot water and central heating generator.

Patent Application Number: 0701691.8

Dear Sir,

We are announcing the above patent application and looking to champion this solution; pushing the politicians to do more than just congratulate us on this development [which they have done enthusiastically]; but seize the opportunity to make major CO2 reductions whilst saving the taxpayers money in the process.

APPCCG Meeting with Professor Lester Brown
Wednesday 5th March, 3-5pm. Committee Room 10, House of Commons.
Professor Lester Brown, Founder and President of the Earth Policy Institute, will speak to the All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group on the themes of his latest work: ‘Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.’ Plan B 3.0 focuses on solutions for stabilizing the climate, stabilizing the population, eradicating poverty and restoring the world’s damaged ecosystems. Professor Brown has been named as one of the worlds’ most influential thinkers.

The attached charts show

(i) how poorly temperate agrofuels (liquid biofuels from crops or forestry, excluding algae) compare with wood used directly to replace coal as a land-use for mitigation. In simple terms the latter was found to be 5x-10x more effective. "WTW biomass options slide" taken from Concawe Well-to-Wheels study (2007)

(ii) how biomass (and some hydro dams) are a very poor land-use for energy compared with wind, solar or geothermal - orders of magnitude poorer. "Energy Footprints" taken from Pimentel et al. (2002)

Hello All

This is from Guardian online (Tuesday 5 June) and just goes to show you that wild weather is not the only cause of displacement. This scenario is really shocking and distressing. All the more reason to reject biofuels as a solution.

Massacres and paramilitary land seizures behind the biofuel revolution

· Colombian farmers driven out as armed groups profit
· Lucrative 'green' crop less risky to grow than coca

Oliver Balch in Mutat and Rory Carroll in Cartagena
Tuesday June 5, 2007
The Guardian

This could be a sample of things to come in the future. An 11MW Solar Thermal Power station lighting more than 6000 homes in Southern Spain.

The power station can be described nothing less than a piece of great engineering and attraction. Generating power to light a whole city without emitting any carbon and green house gases giving us a ray of Sun Hope and step in the direction of what can be called as the next age: Renewable Energy Age.

The Structure and Technology

Geothermal "could support US energy consumption, at its current clip, for more than two millennia to come" - MIT

There's a slight buzz on the TREC (Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation) email list at the moment because the Guardian is thinking about running a feature on concentrating solar power next week. Although CSP is well known amongst campaigners, it has received little attention from the main stream press and government ministers have largely dismissed it out of hand.

Dear All,

It seems absurd to me that there is little, if any real reference to the possible research, and development projects or the possible existence of practical "overlooked" technological innovations that could do one of the following:-

i) Desperse layers of greenhouse gas into space.

ii) Suck up existing layers of greenhouse gas.

I know these notions seem a little fanciful for some but I do find it hard to believe that there is no "real" way other than just trying to reduce emissions. There MUST BE A BETTER WAY.

I look forward to some informative response.

I crave enlightenment from those in the know!

George Monbiot blasts micro-generation, writing in the New Scientist magazine (subscription required)

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19125715.200-smallscale-re...

The Conservatives are inviting views on their Energy Review Interim Findings.

This speaks of the need to fulfil a target of 60% CO2 cuts by 2050 on 1990 levels (pp 3,7 of PDF document). This however does not factor in:

- (I) The need to keep average global warming below 2°C, and the need for developed nations to adopt an emissions pathway which sees their share of world emissions progressively falling. This is recognized in the Contraction and Convergence model. The EU endorses all these principles.