16th June - Renewable Energy in GB UK

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In recent months the general mood is moving to the inevitable conclusion that nuclear energy will be needed in this country if we are to keep the lights on. This is because successive governments have made it so by the failure to develop any alternatives.
Now we have the hard statistics. In response to a parliamentary question by Michael Meacher the former environment minister it is revealed that the UK produces 1.3% of its energy needs from renewable resources. This compares with 41% in Sweden and 35% in Latvia. In fact in the list of European countries, Britain is third last; only Luxemburg with 0.9% and Malta with zero do worse. These figures are from 2005.
In spite of the hype and talk of producing a renewable energy based economy we’ve only increased from 1% since 1995.

Pontardulais Brass Band Concert

On Saturday evening my wife and I attended the summer concert of Pontardulais Brass band which is sponsored by Burns. It was a joint concert with the Pontardulais Male Voice Choir. I love the sound of the brass but I’m not so keen on male voice choirs. At least they didn’t sing “Dem bones, dem bones.” In the raffle I won a box of savoury biscuits. We had to rush off to join the fag-end of the Kidwelly Rugby Club Annual dinner. We were starving so on the way we looked out for a chip shop but couldn’t find one open. By the time we got back to Kidwelly we had eaten the raffle prize!

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