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Cheap travel has shrunk the planet and expanded our horizons, that could all change. On the 1st of April 1957 the BBC ran a spoof documentary about the Ticino spaghetti harvest – where the pasta was hand-picked from trees. A prank that worked because pasta was...

Magical Realism or a Cunning Plan ? UPDATED: having found an error in my numbers - on the % increase of wind (overall a 2x from today not a 4.5x as per the original form of this article - the 4.5x is the planned increase in the offshore wind capacity) - herewith a...

Of side-effects of medicine, fossil-fuel subsidies and willful blindness Antibiotics are really scary. Oh boy, they should be banned! They are just plain bad for you - I mean check it out? Indigestion, Vomiting, Diarrhoea, Bloating or feeling full, Loss of appetite,...

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends* In art imitating life, there is a wonderful irony that the music entitled “What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?” is performed by Public Enemy. A grid failure would indeed be Public Enemy No.1. As someone whose career...

Protesting against fossil fuels may make one feel virtuous, but the consequences will be felt for a generation Last summer in France, over a very agreeable dinner on a warm summer evening, a good friend said he read my posts on Linkedin and he wondered why I was “so...

The everything price apocalypse will not be felt evenly This morning gas priced in European spot market at the equivalent of $600/barrel. Oil briefly touched $139/barrel and in less than a week petrol prices at the pump have jumped 30%. Gas and Oil and are now front...

Canada's global role in Energy Security Canada is blessed with abundant natural resources, Europe has hardly any. Europe was until yesterday obsessed with carbon emissions and is now learning the hard way about the importance of energy security, food security and...