Monthly Archives: April 2008

The devil’s in the details

By James Keirstead | Published: April 19, 2008

Ashely Seager discusses his experience with domestic PV in today’s Guardian. Some of the interesting headline figures include 92% of his family’s annual electricity consumption coming from the PV panels and an estimated ROI of 7%. Pretty good going really, though he points out that the grants fiasco has reduced this return significantly.

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Look, you know…

By James Keirstead | Published: April 17, 2008

I haven’t been following the US presidential election very closely but clearly Barack Obama’s eloquence has lifted the political debate above its usual harping/whining and excited a lot of people. Sadly though, last night’s “Worst. Debate. Ever” was more reflective of the Rovian bad old days, a petty, shrill tabloid tone rather than a serious discussion of the policy challenges facing the US. But this morning, ABC must have a nasty hangover as their comment pages have filled up with over 11667 (and counting…) largely negative comments, reflecting public frustration with the level of maturity in the questioning.

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Blogorrhea

By James Keirstead | Published: April 3, 2008

If the last post was an example of an interesting nugget from the archives, then this one is more typical of the dross that fills up my backlog of drafts. It’s got all the the prerequisites:

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Rivers of “sticky glue”

By James Keirstead | Published: April 1, 2008

I’ve been slowly working through a backlog of post ideas and the title of this one jumped out at me. The draft contained a link to a Guardian story about the pollution problems facing China and how the government is trying to promote a “struggle” against polluters (with all the historical baggage that word carries).

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