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Mark
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 Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 10:41 pm Post subject: Manchester Green Drinks - 14th September |
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Date: Tuesday 10th August
Time: 6pm onwards
Venue: Bluu Bar, 85 High Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester. M4 1BD
http://www.greendrinks.org/Manchester
The topic will be: 'Mind the energy gap: solutions for the North West'.
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CountingDown
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| Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 7:31 am Post subject: |
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| I think that one's ben moved to September due to Holidays! - I'll try and make it then. |
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Mark
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Date: Tuesday 14th September
Time: 6pm onwards
Venue: Kro Bar, Piccadilly Gardens
http://www.greendrinks.org/Manchester
The topic will be: 'Mind the energy gap: solutions for the North West'.
Joe Flanagan (NWDA) and Nigel Blandford (Envirolink North West) |
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CountingDown
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| Not going to make this one I'm afraid. I'll be on the train back from London. |
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Andy Hunt
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| Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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Yet again it clashes with our community group meeting. Bummer.
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Eternal Sunshine
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I'll be working until 9pm, so won't be at the meeting unfortunately.
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Mark
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Went along tonight along with about a dozen others.
Joe Flanagan (NWDA) gave an overview of electricity supply issues - fairly standard stuff, his main conclusion being that we need much more investment in nuclear. Good for resilience, good for CO2 & good for jobs in the NW.
Nigel Blandford (Envirolink North West) gave an overview of the issues wrt heat generation - particularly keen on biomass and would also like to see more waste-to-energy. He also touched on some of the emerging technologies, for example, plans in ROI to combine large-scale wind farms with hydro-power storage reservoirs: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0301/1224265371780.html
Q&A followed, but a bit limited due to a noisy environment. |
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Andy Hunt
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Sounds good, I know Nigel and he is a good bloke and very knowledgeable. Shame I couldn't make it, I might have to forego my community group meeting if it clashes next time!
Either that or we have another "grim up north" official Powerswitch session 
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