Labour has confirmed it will block all new domestic oil and gas developments if it wins power, proposing instead to invest heavily in renewable sources such as wind and also in nuclear power.
The shadow work and pensions secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, said details would be announced soon.
“What we’ll be doing in the coming weeks is outlining how we want to invest in the green jobs of the future, to bring bills down, to create a more sustainable energy supply,” he told Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday show.
“We’ll be outlining that in a significant mission in the coming weeks, and we’ll be announcing more details then.
A party source said: “We are against the granting of new licences for oil and gas in the North Sea. They will do nothing to cut bills as the Tories have acknowledged; they undermine our energy security and would drive a coach and horse through our climate targets.
Dr Mike McCulloch has been making truly remarkable discoveries about some of the mysteries of the cosmos over the last two decades. He has answers to fundamental questions such as ‘what causes the force that resists the change in speed and direction of any mass?’, ‘why do observations indicate that the inertial force varies with acceleration in the outer reaches of galaxies?’ and ‘how can we tap into the implicated energy fields to generate propellant-less thrust, and potentially generate electrical energy to power our homes, industries and vehicles?’. His published papers cover the first two of these questions, and touch on the third, although there’s plenty more to be teased out of the implications of his Quantised Inertia theory. The third question is the acid test.
Mike believes science has to have practical, applicable results, and for the last few years, he has been successfully generating those at his lab in Plymouth University, funded by DARPA. He has been getting measurable thrust from purely electrical input. Other collaborating labs have similar results. Exciting times indeed.
But like many scientists who threaten the established and accepted theory in their field, his work has been largely ignored because it falsifies mainstream ‘dark matter’ theory, or dismissed because it ‘must be impossible’. Although he has got measurable results, DARPA funding is ending, and he has no more teaching work to return to at Plymouth University. Mike wants, as far as possible, to keep the ongoing developments of QI publicly accessible, by crowdfunding. He needs our help to fund and equip a new lab, and set up a ‘Horizon Institute’, online initially, to enable the collaboration of academics and citizen scientists. Please read his message below, and then I’ll let you know how you can get in on the ground floor and be the people who helped make history happen.
For seventeen years I have been proposing, and publishing peer reviewed papers and books on, a new theory of inertial mass, called quantised inertia, which explains inertia using an elegant interaction between horizons and the quantum background. It also accurately predicts galaxy rotation, and the orbital motion of wide binary stars and globular clusters, without the need for ‘dark matter’ to account for observations.
A few years ago it also became clear that quantised inertia predicts a way to generate thrust without propellant: by putting a synthetic horizon in the vacuum: horizon drives. For the past four years I have been funded by DARPA to test this and we have identified a practical method using a modified version of existing electrical technology. We have seen thrust in our lab at Plymouth University and three other collaborating labs around the world have also measured thrust. We are writing a paper on the results.
These new horizon drives outperform the ion drives used on modern satellites, and without the need to carry heavy fuel (propellant). This will revolutionise the satellite industry making satellites cheaper, silent, and long-lasting. It also offers us, for the first time, a way to get to Proxima Centauri in less than 15 years, or the Oort cloud in one.
So far, the observed thrust is small, though already more efficient than ion drives, but quantised inertia theory predicts ways to greatly enhance it and also develop other applications. Unfortunately, the DARPA funding was only promised for four years and it runs out in July. Further, with brilliant timing, my university has decided to make me redundant. I brought myself out of teaching to focus on the DARPA work for four years, and in the meantime the geomatics courses I used to teach have shrunk.
We need funding for an office/lab at Plymouth Science Park to continue our work on the horizon drive, enhance it and work on other applications.
Thank you for your help Mike McCulloch.
40 minute presentation from Mike McCulloch on Quantised Inertia theory and applications.
As you know, I rarely make funding appeals at the talkshop, I can think of two in the last ten years. Mike has asked me to join his team and take on organising and fundraising work. Many years ago I raised £250,000 for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance Charity to get the deposit down on a second helicopter. With the way people’s energy bills are going, this may turn into a life-saving mission too. Beyond our initial aim, to make a viable satellite thrust device, we want to reinvest proceeds from that commercial effort into making interstellar travel, and cheap, fuelless energy production possible, for everyone. They say you should always aim high: we’re aiming for the stars.
Please join us on this journey, and donate what you can to get us kick-started. Initially, we’d like to raise enough money to fund the cost of the new lab at Plymouth Science Park for a year, equip it, and get the Horizon Institute up and online. Around £8000 will cover that. Let’s see if we can get there.
If you’d like to help make history, you can use the ‘Donate’ button at the top of the left column to chip in. If you don’t wish to use Paypal, please say so in a comment below and I’ll contact you via the email you use for your WordPress account. I’ll keep this post at the top of the blog for a while, and keep you updated on progress.
If you’d like to see more of the inside track on quantised inertia (QI), and help Mike in a personal way now he’s losing his employment, you could also join his Patreon group, where he regularly posts on QI and other relevant science that will interest readers.
Thank you for your consideration. Let’s do this. Rog TB.
The Met Office would love people to think that there is such a thing as a “normal” British climate; any variation from this norm now can then be labelled as an example of a “changing climate”.
There are averages of course, average temperatures, rainfall and so on. But averages and norms are two different things, the former being merely an arithmetic construct.
A look back at the Met Office archives shows just how variable our weather was 100 years ago. The list below shows the headlines for each monthly weather report, with a bit more detail from those reports in some months.
January: Mild, with frequent gales
February: An extremely wet month: the second wettest on record in England: temperatures reached 61F: heavy snowfall
March : Mild and dry
April: Cold and wet: severe frosts
May: Cold and dull
June: Cool, dull and dry
July: Hot and thundery: temperatures hit 96F: floods caused considerable damage in Cambridge
August: Rather cool and wet
September: Cool, sunny in SE, wet in North
October: Wet and windy
November: Cold, sunny and foggy: very severe floods in NW England
December: A variable month: considerable snowfall across Britain
There was nothing unusual about 1923; most years will show similar swings from one extreme to the other from month to month, and week to week.
WTOP: The two climate protesters who smeared paint on the case and base of Edgar Degas’ “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” in the National Gallery of Art on April 27 were arrested Friday. Timothy Martin of North Carolina and Joanna Smith of New York, both 53, were charged with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States and injury to a National Gallery of Art exhibit.
Washington Post reporters alerted about the attack filmed and photographed the offense. …The Washington Post reported that it’s staff reporters were initially subjected to a potential arrest but, after speaking with attorneys, they were not detained. District police have not commented on the report. …
Meteorologist Dr. Ryan Maue: “What the hell? This story identifies the Washington Post as the media outlet **alerted ahead of time of criminal acts at the National Gallery of Art** and showed up with cameras. Sounds like accomplices or co-conspirators = Jail ‘Washington Post reporters alerted about the attack filmed and photographed the offense.’” … They did not act alone: More from Wash Post on far-reaching criminal conspiracy to attack the National Gallery of Art. And alerted one member of the media (who was there with a camera and speedily edited the footage lickety-split for Wash Post).”
Former New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin suggested “crimes” may have been committed by the Washington Post. “If yours, were you randomly visiting the @NationalGallery or alerted ahead of time? Seems a fine line between journalism and P.R. if the latter? No easy answer,” Revkin wrote, then adding, “crimes?”
Excerpt: The two climate protesters who smeared paint on the case and base of Edgar Degas’ “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” in the National Gallery of Art on April 27 were arrested Friday. Timothy Martin of North Carolina and Joanna Smith of New York, both 53, were charged with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States and injury to a National Gallery of Art exhibit. …
According to the indictment, Martin and Smith had planned to injure the exhibit when they entered the National Gallery and brought plastic water bottles filled with paint. The indictment outlines how they handed their phones to co-conspirators before smearing paint on the case and base of the sculpture’s exhibit, at times smacking the glass case. Washington Post reporters alerted about the attack filmed and photographed the offense.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a news release the “Little Dancer” was explicitly targeted for her fragility. The sculpture’s materials include human hair, silk and linen ribbon that is over 100 years old.
Smith and Martin caused approximately $2,400 in damage, and the exhibit was removed from public display for 10 days for repairs, according to the indictment. The Washington Post reported that it’s staff reporters were initially subjected to a potential arrest but, after speaking with attorneys, they were not detained. District police have not commented on the report. …
This story identifies the Washington Post as the media outlet **alerted ahead of time of criminal acts at the National Gallery of Art** and showed up with cameras.
This criminal conspiracy involved many more than just these 2. The plan of attack on the National Gallery was financed and implemented by as yet unidentified co-conspirators. They are still uncharged.
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