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  • Design and Simulation:These are some books which are recommended as a reading list. 1- Aerodynamics of Road Vehicles from Fluid Mechanics to Vehicle Engineering. Edited by Wolf-Heinrich Hucho 2- Hucho-Aerodynamik des Automobils Stromungsmechanik.Warmetechnik. Fahrdynamiik.Komfort
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Friday, 29 January 2016

How rational choice theory explains EDF's mad gamble on Hinkley C

Posted by Sohail Azad On 04:04

The spectacle of the disastrous attempts to build a new generation of nuclear reactor - the European Pressurised Reactors (EPRs) - and EDF's apparent desire to carry on despite the increasing likelihood that the financial losses from this will destroy EDF as a going business (see my earlier blog posts on this) raise the question: If this is true, then why do they carry on with this apparent financial suicide? The answer can be analysed through something well known in political science: rational...

Help save electricity storage from its transgender problem

Posted by Sohail Azad On 02:35

A campaign is being launched to get the UK Government to legislate to set up a special license for electricity storage facilities. - A license to store! At the moment the fast-developing battery storage industry, which can help power the renewable energy revolution, is being stymied by regulatory confusion. Establishing a license for storage would set up storage as a distinctive technology where that can be assigned its own place in the system alongside generation and consumption.The problem is...

Tuesday, 26 January 2016

EDF wants French Government to pay for British nuclear reactor at Hinkley C!

Posted by Sohail Azad On 09:01

As if anything extra was needed to demonstrate the financial lunacy of the Hinkley C project to all parties concerned, EDF, according to French press reports, now wants the French Government to pay for it!See http://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-services/energie-environnement/021648964646-epr-anglais-edf-peine-a-boucler-son-plan-de-financement-1195310.phpQuite why anyone would want to take responsibility for a project  whose potential lossmaking wildly exceeds even the over-generous offer...

Saturday, 23 January 2016

Wake up UKIP UK! renewables really are the cheapest option!

Posted by Sohail Azad On 03:01

It often seems to me that UKIP represent a sort of extreme version of a back-to-the past conservative Britain, in energy as in other things, where the old stereotypes of unrealistic hippies and their ideas of renewable energy are obviously ridiculous. Except of course that reality suggests that renewables aren't the preserve of hippies any more and it is fossil fuels and nuclear that are out of date. In world markets renewables installation is now far outpacing the rest, yet in the UK you would...

Tuesday, 19 January 2016

What a smart response! - wind cheaper than fossil fuels

Posted by Sohail Azad On 07:42

In amongst the very partial comments you here about winds obvious variability, few point out that onshore wind also has great benefits which cannot be wished away. People frequently point out occasions when there isn't much wind power and say how we need other fuels. What they don't mention is the other half of the coin - how often wind power saves the day by stepping in when power plant break down and power would otherwise be very expensive.There was a neat exchange on this point in the House of...

Wednesday, 6 January 2016

More Daishan EPR delays as EDF ponders financial suicide plan for funding Hinkley C

Posted by Sohail Azad On 04:36

Further delays at the Daishan EPR project being built in China are hammering another nail in a coffin. The only debate now is whether the coffin will house the Hinkley C project or the whole of EDF. This news coincides with reports that EDF are planning asset sales to fund the Hinkley C project.It is reported that the Daishan project, quite similar in design to Hinkley C, will not come online before 2017. See http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/789e5070-974a-11e5-9228-87e603d47bdc.htmlThe plant's construction...