An energy scandal involving a notorious businessman: we uncover Frank Timis’s secret payments to an African president. We reveal how his companies are getting $9-12 billion from BP. And we ask why one of the world’s biggest companies signed up for such a suspicious deal. Panorama: The $10 Billion Energy Scandal, BBC 2019
Our new prime minister in facing a national crisis. What will Liz Truss do about soaring energy bills? Tonight, we investigate companies cashing in. And the extraordinary profits being made. While vulnerable families are pushed to the brink. Panorama: The Energy Crisis: Who’s Cashing In? BBC 2022
The crisis in the energy market has delivered a windfall for the energy producers. ibid.
We expose an environmental scandal. How precious forests are being used to make electricity in the UK. We reveal how Britain’s supposedly green power station is harming the planet. And how billions of pounds’ worth of our cash is funding this [devastation]. Panorama: The Green Energy Scandal Exposed, BBC 2022
The Drax Power Station in Yorkshire used to burn coal, but has switched to burning wood pellets … Burning wood pellets actually gives out more greenhouse gasses than coal. ibid.
But can we rely on our smart meters. Smart meters were supposed to make paying our energy bills simpler and cheaper. And help save energy. We reveal how where you live affects how your smart meter works. So far the smart meter roll-out has cost billions. We investigate what’s gone wrong. Panorama: The Truth About Smart Meters, BBC 2024
There are 36 million smart meters in the UK. 3.5 million of them don’t work as they should. ibid.
This film is about atomic power … 1) Anyone with an expert knowledge of physics can make an atomic bomb with that much of a substance called plutonium; 2) A speck of plutonium causes cancer; 3) There is no absolutely safe way of storing, protecting or transporting plutonium. And you may have read recently that enough plutonium to make fifteen atomic bombs has officially disappeared from nuclear research centres in Britain. John Pilger, An Unjustifiable Risk, ITV 1977
The first commercial nuclear power station fuelled by plutonium; the first of many so-called fast-breeder reactors that will solve all our energy problems, according to the salesmen of our nuclear industry. ibid.
As the lights went out on the west coast, Enron’s wholesale services revenues quadrupled from $12 billion to $48 billion and double again three months later. The 2000s: The Platinum Age of Television VI, television news, Amazon 2018
As the push to save the planet gets even more urgent, one town has already cut its carbon emissions by 80%. Il in northern Finland is the greenest town in Europe, powered by 100% renewable energy. And the next generation are already leading the way in energy-saving ways of living. People still hunt and fish as part of their everyday lives. But could there be a cost to being Europe’s greenest town? Our World: Europe’s Greenest Town, BBC 2019
Our need for food, water and shelter requires energy. Our quest to secure that energy has shaped the path we have taken. Secret History of Humans VIII: Fire, Coal & Oils, Apple 2013
Fact: The US government has pulled invention patents of anyone with a free energy invention. The inventors usually end up imprisoned. Fact: If you thought wireless technology was new, in the early 1900s Nikola Tesla revolutionised the electric industry by inventing a working wireless power plant, but after government intervention the public model never materialised. Illuminati: NWO, nightfallproject
US inventor Stan Meyers released his water-powered car engine in 1988 ... Mayers found it virtually impossible to secure finance after certain Pentagon officials paid him a visit. News report
A machine that could power your house for free. Well that’s just exactly what two Australian investors claim they’ve developed: using magnets and a battery their new generator has been described as revolutionary. And foreign investors are lining up for a piece of the action. Sky News Australia
The Earth as we know it is going downhill very fast. PSTV.tv – Brian Leary, interview May 2010
Free energy ... sources which have been out there and researched for quite a while. ibid.
There are devices of all kinds out there which are not at the practical stage. ibid.
Cold fusion ... has been replicated many times. ibid.
The president really has no power, the people have no power, Congress is bought out, and that’s the kind of system we’re dealing with. ibid.
The Americans have confiscated or secretized over 4,000 [free energy] patent applications. Richard D Hall, interview On the Edge
Coal-fired power plants produce the most incredibly damaging waste we know that’s changing the nature of our atmosphere. Professor Tim Flannery, chairman Copenhagen Climate Council
Energy from nothing: this may be a key component. Michio Kaku, Sci-Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible s1e1: How to Explore the Universe, Science 2009
I believe a deeper understanding of waves can explain our endless fascination with them. The Secret Life of Waves, David Malone reporting, BBC 2022
Waves also give us a window into how the world actually works, to the nature of reality … They have a birth and a death and a process. ibid.
‘The wind – that is the crucial factor. That’s where the energy comes from.’ ibid. scientist
The noise of an ocean wave is made by all the bubbles. ibid.
Waves are about transformation of energy … Our lives are in continuous change. ibid.
The process of opting-out of your smart meter is like being bullied by kids at school. The Epic Saga of a Smart-Meter Opt-Out, Youtube 2017 46.43
A waste … costing more not less, wasting more energy than they save, and even that the meters are an unjustifiable and unnecessary intrusion. ibid.
It’s sending out very high pulses. ibid.
Multiple hoops that you have to jump through in order to actually opt out. ibid.
Between $169-200. ibid.
Two Naperville Women Arrested After Trying To Block ‘Smart Meters’. ibid. headline
‘You will be required to pay other fees and charges …’ ibid. letter from electricity supplier
And left us there with no meter and no power in December in the cold with children. I was not a happy person that day. ibid.
We were lucky our house hadn’t burnt down. ibid.
I have to pay out of hours fees on top of their mistake … You don’t even know how much it is. ibid.
We’re in bureaucratic hell. ibid.
What if they go way, way, way, way way too far? How would they know when it’s their time to go? Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans, 2019
That was 1958. We’ve known about the dangers of climate change for six decades. Back then, there was so much air pollution, it would block out the sun. There was so much water pollution, rivers caught on fire. ibid.
Why are we still addicted to fossil fuels? ibid.
Green activists across the country cheered when newly elected president Barack Obama rolled out a trillion dollar stimulus pack with nearly a hundred billion dollars for green energy. ibid.
‘It would be charging off of our grid which is about 95% coal.’ ibid. Lansing’s electric vehicles
Wind farms were rising across the nation … They were impressive machines, but is it possible for machines made by industrial civilisation to save us from industrial civilisation? ibid.
Everywhere I encountered green energy it wasn’t what it seemed. ibid.
Ethanol was reliant on two things: a giant fossil fuel based industrial agricultural system to produce corn, and even more fossil fuels in the form of coal. ibid.
‘Renewables are intermittent … If you can store the energy that’s created … now you’re reducing your need for a baseload.’ ibid. expert
‘Joshua trees are torn down to make for solar projects.’ ibid. TV news
After all the mining, the fossil fuels, the toxins, the environmental destruction … then tear it down and start all over again. ibid.
What we have been calling green renewable energy and industrial civilisation are one and the same. ibid.
Biomass: burning trees to create electricity. ibid.
Biomass especially when you add in biofuels is by far the largest portion of green energy around the world. ibid.
The other elephant in the room: the profit motive. ibid.
The takeover of the environmental movement by capitalism is now complete. ibid.
Our human presence is already far beyond sustainability, and all that that implies. ibid.
It’s going to be the biggest change in generations. The homes we live in and the cars we drive all transformed. Heat Pumps: What They Really Mean For You, BBC 2023
Heat pumps: ‘This is an £18,000 installation.’ ibid.
The government intends to ban the sale of new gas boilers by 2035. ibid.
Current models are 3 to 5 times more energy efficient than traditional boilers. ibid.
The problem is most British homes just aren’t as well insulated. ibid.