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Topic Title: EDF's epitaph to the EPR "too expensive and too complicated"
Topic Summary: EDF says the EPR is too expensive and complicated for many customers
Created On: 15 January 2013 05:51 PM
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15 January 2013 05:51 PM
The Energy Bill is looking more and more like a dead political duck to me.
"EDF says the EPR is too expensive and complicated for many customers and that smaller reactors will account for much of future demand."
There will be no EPR nuclear station built and commissioned in this country now, that is now clear. Hinkley point C may have been started, but it will never ever get finished.
If parliament allowed 30 year CfD's, to be agreed now in secret negociations in "smoke filled rooms" by the small band of old nuclear fanatics, it would mean all political aspiration toward a free market in energy generation in Britain is effectively killed off for at least another 50 years into the future.
The cost of the Energy Bill is not just monetary it is political as well.
James Arathoon
James Arathoon
16 January 2013 09:27 AM
I would add that the FT article may be factually wrong. The writer asserts that the cost of a MWhr from on-shore wind is more than 70 - 80Euros. Data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (April 2012) suggests that it is around Euro50/MWhr (= LCOE). This calls into question two things: 1) why are we still providing ROCs to new wind siystems of 1MW+ (given they now have price parity with CCGTs) 2) if the UK has the best wind resource in Europe why not exploit this on a very large scale and focus subsidies away from nuclear and on to, for example interconnectors and off-shore (and perhaps storage).
25 January 2013 05:20 PM
According to rumours circulated by Mark Leftly in the independent
and utility week etc
DECC is close to agreeing a strike price with EDF for new Nuclear energy of between £95/MWh and £99.50/MWh, with confirmation of the exact details behind the deal in March this year.
Importantly we don't know the exact timescales for the proposed CfD's yet or if EDF is demanding extra money or guarantees from the UK tax payer to cover the inevitable contruction cost overruns etc..
DECC is starting rumours to tell us that it plans to buy Nuclear baseload electricity for a price no lower than offshore wind and likely with a framework of much longer fixed price "contracts".
I am willing to predict that the Energy Bill (perhaps even including the ONR clauses) will be in the waste paper recycling bin within a few weeks of the new permanent secretary starting his job (4th February 2013). He will be probably be flying over to America with the minister signing up for some extra shale gas supplies instead.
James Arathoon
James Arathoon
03 February 2013 06:49 PM
Bloomberg New Energy Finance (April 2012) suggests that the cost of onshore wind is around Euro50/MWhr (= LCOE).
ah yes, the 'levelised cost' which ignores the cost of connecting remote windfarms to the grid and providing 24/7 conventional spinning reserve, inefficiently ramping up and down for 70% of the time when the windfarm is producing nothing. Ignores the cost to local people and businesses who's lives are blighted by hundreds of 200m tall industrial bird blenders ruining their environment.
'Levelised cost' which loads a bunch of fictional costs onto conventional power like the 'cost of carbon' and reparations to developing countries for the non-existent damage done by non-existent global warming. What a load of nonsense. If you pay a bunch of activist accountants to sit around inventing ways to fudge the numbers to make medieval windmills look financially attractive, it's amazing the rubbish they can come up with.
04 February 2013 12:18 PM
One of the biggest problems for the nuclear industry is the risk of politically/ideologically motivated changes in legislation.
Would you want to install a facillity with a planed 60 year life when there is a risk of having it shut down due to green lobbying as in Germany and Switzerland?
I wait to see if UNSCEAR are allowed to fully publish their latest report that says that the risks of low dose radiation have been greatly overstated.
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04 February 2013 02:05 PM
The biggest problem at the moment for the EPR is cost...Chinese investors might not like what they see either a few months down the line.
"Centrica withdraws from new UK nuclear projects"
"British Gas owner's unexpected exit - blamed on rising costs and construction delays - clears way for Chinese investors"
James Arathoon
James Arathoon
04 February 2013 02:58 PM
And a significant cause of increased costs and construction delays is over regulation.
If I bought a little granite statue at the local garden centre and took it and put it on my desk in a NPP it would have to be removed as radioactive waste. Is this sense of politcal/ideological interference?
As the Nature article states, most of the Fukushima health issues are due to stress from the scaremongering rather than radiation. Similar results were reported from Chernobyl.
Best regards
04 February 2013 05:08 PM
And a significant cause of increased costs and construction delays is over regulation.
If I bought a little granite statue at the local garden centre and took it and put it on my desk in a NPP it would have to be removed as radioactive waste. Is this sense of politcal/ideological interference?
As the Nature article states, most of the Fukushima health issues are due to stress from the scaremongering rather than radiation. Similar results were reported from Chernobyl.
Best regards
The over regulation is due to the fact that the current batch of nuclear power stations do not fail safe when they lose power. It reflects that the public do not trust the engineers designing these systems.
The flawed design methodology adopted (functional safety systems) does not allow the probability of failure to be calculated accurately; precise theoretical figures are obtained which are normally found to be orders of magnitude in error in practice.
Allowing inceased dumping radioactive materials into the environment will not reduce costs for Gen 3 reactors, as it does nothng to stop the big accidents from happening. Completely revamping the engineering design methodologies used to design nuclear power plant is ultimately the only sure way of reducing costs long term.
James Arathoon
James Arathoon
04 February 2013 07:20 PM
If we are talking about costs there is also the cost of looking after the end product of nuclear power generation, nuclear waste.
Has the fig leaf fallen off the "Nuclear Renaissance?
The Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP, Chair of the Committee of Public
Accounts, today said: "An enormous legacy of nuclear waste has been
allowed to build up on the Sellafield site. Over decades, successive
governments have failed to get to grips with this critical problem, to
the point where the total lifetime cost of decommissioning the site
has now reached £67.5 billion, and there's no indication of when that
cost will stop rising. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority believes
that its decommissioning plan is credible but it has not been
sufficiently tested and uncertainties remain - not least around what
precisely is in the waste that lies in the legacy ponds and silos.
Parliament 4th Feb 2013
05 February 2013 03:36 PM
I agree that are current generation of reactors are not optimal, being incremental developments of military plutonium generators. Having sensible dose limits greatly reduces the impact of accidents if they do occur and simplifies the handling and processing of spent fuel.
However until there is sensible regulation and LNT and collective dose are replaced by a reasonable threshold there will be problems in getting funding for new nuclear reactor systems, pebble bed, travelling wave, thorium etc.
The cost of disposal and remediation is fairly directly related to the levels that you have to achieve. As long as the greens continue shooting themselves in the foot by demanding ever smaller dose limits the spent nuclear fuel will remain above ground and a good source of low carbon energy will be denied to us.
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06 February 2013 12:24 PM
World best practice is to encase intermediate and high level nuclear waste in concrete or glass and store it for several hundred/ thousand years in an underground repository. The trouble is every county, even Cumbria has rejected a repository. Where do you go from there?
The past week has not been a good time for those wedded to a resurgent UK nuclear renaissance. This week Centrica decided there's too much risk involved. It remains unconvinced by the sums. So it's walking away from having a stake in EDF Energy's new nuclear programme. And last week Cumbria County Council drove a coach and horses through the administration's nuclear waste strategy, one concocted by Labour and embraced by the present incumbents. That strategy relied on two questionable assumptions. First, that communities existed who wanted to host a multi-billion pound repository in which radioactive waste and spent fuel could be safely buried deep underground. And second that the local geology was suitable. Cumbria decided that having a repository in its backyard was not worth the candle. As a result the government is left with no obvious host community. The administration's policy principles of "voluntarism and a community-led approach" are now looking very threadbare indeed. Its nuclear waste management strategy is in tatters. There is no Plan B. In fact it gets a tad worse. The Government, in its wisdom, decided that the process for the development consent for Hinkley C, planned as the first of the new breed of nuclear stations, need not consider the nuclear waste issue on the grounds that had been taken care of. Manifestly that is not the case now. If Barker approves Hinkley C next month that decision will surely face a judicial review in the light of the hopelessly flawed radioactive waste management policy context. Later this week (on Thursday) the Government will get an earful from some MPs over subsidies for new nuclear (and the existing stations). Ironically, rebooting both the electricity market and the planning system has failed to make nuclear power bankable, loveable or a commercial shoe in. And remember it's still not clear whether the European Commission is prepared to view long-term contracts for difference as anything other than protracted state-aid. What nuclear spring? It's still definitely nuclear winter.
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06 February 2013 01:59 PM
We also have that kind of problem here in our place. We are the very source of the electricity in our Province but sad to say we are one of the most expensive electricity payers here in the country. I dont know what exactly these politicians have been doing for the fact that we are the source then we still have that highest amount of EPR. Were hoping to resolve this issues because we are really affected by the current standing we are facing! lemonade dietlemonade diet
06 February 2013 04:08 PM
Until the hype/lies from the anti-nuclear groups is discredited the public will be unlikely to support the neccessary nuclear facilities. Another simiar viewpoint:
"You have to wonder how there can be a scientific issue of extreme public importance where the disputing parties differ by about 10,000 orders of magnitude."
At least people agree that the climate has changed, is changing and will continue to change even if the causes are disputed.
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08 February 2013 09:26 PM
That this House notes that both the Coalition Agreement and numerous
ministerial statements have committed the Government to provide no
public subsidy to new nuclear; further notes that negotiations are
currently ongoing between the Department of Energy and Climate Change
and new nuclear suppliers to fix the strike price in advance of the
legislation on energy market reform; is concerned by wider issues of
subsidy and transparency and in particular that this process pre-empts
the legislation; is further concerned that new evidence suggests that
this constitutes an unjustifiable subsidy to a mature industry; and
therefore calls on the Government to pause the process so that the
Public Accounts Committee can examine whether the contract for
difference being offered for new nuclear power generation offers
genuine value for money.
House of Commons Debate 7th Feb 2013
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EDF's epitaph to the EPR "too expensive and too complicated"
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Michael Baron, ContributorI don't think anyone has a crystal ball, Mike. Regardless of any plan any team lays out, there are a ton of factors in play and they need things to break right in order to be successful. I like the Mets' plan – they are clearly building the future of this organization around the likes of young pitching. But those pitchers need to continue to develop and stay healthy in order for the plan to function. If the pitching continues on this track, it will be fun to watch unfold in 2013 and hopefully a part of better times beginning in 2014.
I also don't think there's any evidence to suggest the Mets are going to be operating with a "smaller payroll" in future seasons, either. They may, or they may not – only time will tell. But even if the Mets were to (hypothetically) invest $80 million in their payroll in 2014, their roster would likely be way more balanced than it is today. Why? Because they have such an imbalance of resource allocation on their roster now, and much of that (in the form of Johan Santana's and Jason Bay's deals) won't exist at this time next year. And, free agent classes are getting worse and worse nowadays, and so it wouldn't be wise to invest solely in that market anyway. As I always say, it's not about spending and bringing in overpriced free agents – that's part of what got the Mets into this mess originally. It's about developing from within and creating a foundation – which they are clearly trying to do – and maximizing that value in each roster spot they fill from outside the organization to supplement that foundation. Going forward, the Mets should be able to do that more efficiently.
Remember, the Mets payroll was still around $100 million in 2012 – that's a lot of money to spend on 74 wins and hardly what I'd call a small payroll. Don't misunderstand that as my advocating for the Mets to spend less: it's a call to spend wisely and restore the ability to fix problems with quality solutions as they arise.
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An accomplished recitalist, Danton has performed in Europe and the United States. Last season she gave recitals in Italy for the Associatione Culturale- Organi del Piemonte and will be returning for the 2009 season. Other venues include the N.Y. Trinity Church Concert Series in N.Y.C. and the Twentieth Century Music Series at the N.Y. Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. She has performed at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Festival, Yale Center for British Art, and the Meeting House Chamber Music Festival. She is a strong promoter of American music and has premiered works by Leonardo Ciampa, Sharon Davis, Carson Cooman, Thomas Stumpf, Delvyn Case and William Moylan. Her 2007 collaborations include the world premieres of The Prioress's Tale, a chamber opera by Delvyn Case and Stations, an oratorio by Aleksandra Vrebalov.
Danton's operatic performances include roles with Boston Baroque, Greater Buffalo Opera, Cambridge Opera and ensemble with the Boston Early Music Festival. She performed the role of Polly in Weill's The Threepenny Opera under Craig Smith at the American Repertory Theatre and Quiteria in the U.S. premiere of Don Quixote with the Boston Classical Orchestra under Harry Ellis Dickson. She has appeared with Boston Lyric Opera and Boston Opera Theatre (Peter Sellars) and the Boston early Music Festival. She has been a versatile soloist in operetta, musical theatre and Pops with New England Light Opera, American Classics, North Shore Music Theatre and the Hillyer Festival Orchestra.
Danton has recordings on Albany Records and Newport Classic. Her newest recording, Dichterliebe in Four Seasons, was released April, 2007 on Albany Records. She can be heard on the PBS documentaries The Nobel Legacy, Apollo 13--To the Edge and Back, American Experiences: Stephen Foster and in Mary Magdalen for Lifetime.
Danton is also on the voice faculty at Boston College and Eastern Nazarene College. Danton is represented by Peter Bergman and Berkshire Concert Artists.
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Highland Park is Scotland's northernmost whisky distillery, lying just to the North-east of fellow Orcadian, Scapa. Orkney is a rugged, beautiful island and the Highland Park distillery sits on a hillside near Kirkwall. Not far off, are sweeping plains of barley field and the rocky outcrops which protrude ominously from the ground. The sea beats the coast; her salty air and the island's geology contribute to the rich character of Highland Park single malts. The distillery draws its water from the mineral rich springs to the east of the distillery as well as the Crantit Spring. Highland Park was founded in 1798, by David Robertson on what was once the site of Magnus Eunson's cottage. Eunson was not only a beadle at the local church but also a notorious smuggler. Highland Park was officially licensed in 1826. After James Borwick inherited the distillery in 1869, the production at Highland Park was slowed; James was a priest and believed that whisky production contradicted with his religious status. Accordingly, in 1876 Stuart and Mackay moved in and dramatically helped sales through overseas exportation. In 1895, James Grant of Glenlivet fame acquired the Highland Park distillery. Three years later he installed further stills, bringing the total to four. One of the few Scotch whisky distilleries to operate onsite floor maltings, Highland Park's weekly malted barley production of 35 tonnes supplies twenty percent of its own malt requirements, the remainder is shipped in from Simpson's and Edrington's maltings respectively. £18 million was spent relaunching the brand; the range was repackaged and remarketed and the buildings were extensively renovated. Highland Park's future is bright having recently overtaken Islay giant Lagavulin in terms of sales.
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David Robertson founds the distillery. The local smuggler and businessman Magnus Eunson previously operated an illicit whisky production on this site.
John Robertson, an Excise Officer who arrested Magnus Eunson, takes over production.
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POTSDAM After snapping a long stretch without a win against Cornell the Clarkson University mens hockey team now finds the same challenge tonight when Union College comes to Cheel Arena for a 7 p.m. ECAC Hockey game.
Clarksons 6-3 win over the Big Red last Saturday was the programs first win over Cornell since the 2007-08 season.
Union (13-8-5 overall, 6-4-4 conference) has a nine-game win streak against the Golden Knights, and has outscored Clarkson (6-13-7, 5-6-3) by a 50-16 margin in those contests.
We are just thinking about the process right now, Clarkson captain Ben Sexton said. Unions a very good team and weve been preparing for them all week. Were just looking at it as another game.
Union has won the past two ECAC Hockey regular-season titles and won the tournament last year, eventually reaching the Frozen Four.
The Dutchmen are especially dangerous on special teams. Union has scored 26 percent of the time on the power play, which is tied for first nationally, and the Dutchmen rank fifth in penalty killing at 89.5 percent. Clarksons penalty kill is 52nd nationally at 77.4 percent.
We got a couple texts this week from the senior class last year telling us congratulations on beating (Cornell), (beating Union) is something were definitely thinking about going into the game, senior defenseman Andrew Himelson said.
Union averages 3.04 goals and Wayne Simpson leads the Dutchmen with 12 goals and 16 assists.
Union is especially dangerous when it gets a lead. The Dutchmen are 10-2-3 if they score the first goal and just 3-6-2 otherwise. If Union is behind after the first period, it is 0-3 and just 1-4-1 if trailing after two.
Union has always had our number and theyve been one of the best teams in the league the last couple of years too, Clarkson coach Casey Jones said. More importantly, for us, we have to execute and perform. They are very good in their special teams and theyll make you pay if you make mistakes.
Its been a tough season for Clarkson, which is only 2-8-3 on home ice at Cheel Arena.
But starting with a third-period comeback against rival St. Lawrence University on Jan. 19, Clarkson has been playing much better than it was earlier in the season.
The Golden Knights rallied from a 3-0 deficit in the third period to tie the Saints 3-3, and since that game, the team has gone 2-1-1 the following two weekends.
I think were skating better and transitioning pucks better, Jones said. It all comes down to making some plays. We have to make plays in the course of a game to score some goals. Its really tough where you are hanging on in a one- or two-goal game trying to win those. Its nice to get some offensive production to give us some breathing room where mistakes are not always going to be the end of the world.
Freshman T.J. Moor became the second straight Golden Knight to earn the ECAC Hockey Player of the Week award after scoring three goals last weekend.
Moor, a native of Lake St. Louis, Miss., who joined Clarkson in the second semester, scored his first career goal Friday against Colgate, and then scored two goals Saturday against Cornell during a major power play.
Hes got good energy, Jones said. Theres some chemistry on his line and hes still continuing to grasp our team concepts. Thats coming. For the most part hes given us good energy in games and he gets pucks to the net. Thats something where hes reaping some benefits right now. Its been a good run for him here the last couple weekends.
Because they are both engineering schools, Clarkson and Rensselaer have always been rivals.
But last year RPI ended Clarksons season by winning in three games in a first-round ECAC Hockey playoff series at Cheel.
I think the loss in the playoffs last year gives us some motivation against them, forward Will Frederick said.
Its always in the back of your mind for sure, Sexton said. I know that left a sour taste in my mouth, personally. They are one of our rivals so we are going to be prepared for it and be ready, and I know they will too. I think our school gets up for it. I know their school gets up for it. When we were down there last year, they had a pretty good crowd and they were rowdy.
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Russell Jones is a keen cyclist and is fed up of drivers' attitudes towards those on two wheels. He challenged his anti-cyclist friend Adam to ditch his car and travel to work by bike for a whole week. The video below shows Adam's near misses with drivers and how stepping into cyclists shoes challenged his views about how drivers and cyclists use the road.
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1:05 PM on 21/11/2011
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Brilliant. More car drivers should watch this. I cycle into work every day. I was nodding my head so many times during this, especially at the point where we saw the driver overtaking at the last minute to swerve into a left-hand junction. That happens to me virtually every day! Cyclists aren't blameless. I can't stand those who treat red lights and other basic rules of the road with contempt. But as a commuting cyclist whose route does not include any dedicated cycle lanes, I take my life in my hands every day.
1:06 PM on 21/11/2011
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interesting film however fails to acknowledge the issues mentioned by the driver at the beginning of the piece, as a cyclist and a driver i too am plagued by poor drivers and other road users, But cyclist need to acknowledge that they bring some of the heat on themselves.Cycling at night with no lights, helmet and in dark clothing, running red lights, not looking before turning, riding as if you own the road, single flashing light on the front of the bike (make it very hard to judge how far away you are or how fast you are going) just a few of the things i see every day on my bike. Twice in the last 2 weeks i have been forced to take action to avoid being run off the road by other cyclists, one who pulled out of the shadows with no lights and ran me onto the opposite side of the road the other guy road straight at me on the wrong side of the road.until the cyclist accept some responsibility for their own actions and stop blaming others for every problem they face there will always be friction between cyclists and other road users.that being said, still would prefer to cycle around Bristol than drive
2:44 PM on 21/11/2011
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Interesting what Adam discovers, but the definition of the term "cyclist" here is extremely limited - to the sporty, vehicular variety. Cycling is not driving, and only when proper cycling infrastructure is provided - as exists in cycling-friendly countries - can it properly flourish. Mixing increasing numbers of cyclists with busy motorised traffic is just plain dangerous. If you want to see other types of cycling, have a look at the film Beauty and the Bike.
4:26 PM on 21/11/2011
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An excellent video showing what many people have suggested for many years: the best drivers have had experience of all forms of road transport, so that they appreciate the problems of other road users.The first thing that Adam says annoys him as a driver is cyclists not wearing helmets, and Russell repeats the same thing. Sorry guys, you appear not to be aware of the facts about helmets: nowhere with a helmet law or massive increase in helmet wearing because of propaganda campaigns can show any reduction in risk to cyclists, and some research shows an increase in risk. The only demonstrable effect of helmet promotion and laws is to reduce the number of cyclists, and since the safety of cyclists goes up when there are more of them, and goes down if there are less of them, helmet promotion is entirely negative in its effects. And of course, fewer cyclists equals fewer people getting the health benefits, more congestion, more pollution and people dying sooner.You can promote cycling or you can promote helmets, but you can't do both.Try cyclehelmets.org for a few facts.
4:37 PM on 21/11/2011
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The overtake and turn left - known as the left-hook. That's nasty. That how lorries kill cyclists.
7:36 PM on 21/11/2011
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I think Adam needs a cycle lesson! No it isn't good to keep left at all times. Sometimes you need to hold the lane, to stop motorists trying to pass you when there is no room for both of you, or to wait next to you at junctions. You will also find that the nearer you are to the traffic stream, the more visible you will be (and thus safer) and he easier it will be to come out to pass parked cars. Also please cycle further away from parked cars - drivers can see you better and will not therefore be as likely to open a door in your face and you will be more likely to avoid the door if they open it without looking. Urban cycle skills lessons available from Life Cycle UK, based in Bristol. But hope you keep cycling and get fitter!
8:11 PM on 21/11/2011
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Cyclists - they are a menace and why, when using the roads should they not be subject to road tax? More importantly, due to the increasing number of cyclists who ride on PAVEMENTS, it should now be the time to make it compulsory for cyclists to have comprehensive insurance! I walked out of a shop doorway and was hit by a cyclist, an adult who felt it was quite in order to cycle on the pavement.
8:46 PM on 21/11/2011
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What's the obsession with cycle helmets?If the guy learning to cycle thought more about whats up ahead he could have avoided some of those problems. I guess if he's a typical car driver then that explains his lack of forethought. I mean, from the helmet cam, he had masses of time to see those people crossing at the pelican, why did he insist on ploughing through them? And that cars brake lights should have given him loads of time so that an emergency stop wasn't really necessary. But cars overtaking and turning left - yep that's a real problem.I cycle alot, and have done so in Bristol, so I know Park Street quite well.I'd say 80% of cycle lanes are badly designed and cause more of a problem than a benefit to cyclists.
8:30 AM on 22/11/2011
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I find it intensely irritating that both the cyclist and non-cyclist mentioned helmets. The non-cyclist saying that riders not wearing one was an irritation to him!!!!!! Why? Is it because if a cyclist isn't wearing a helmet it makes it just that bit riskier to knock him off? ie you might kill him or render him a basket case rather than just simply leave him maimed for life? I am responsible cyclist who obeys traffic lights, gives hand signals and always uses good lighting in poor visibility situations. So why on earth should I stick a lump of polystyrene on my head just so a motorist feels better about knocking me off? How does he feel about pedestrians? Should they wear helmets too so he can feel a little less irritated?Madness, complete madness.
8:53 AM on 22/11/2011
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A fairly well balanced video, but it must be worrying for all road users to realise they are sharing the roads with Adam who fails to keep even one hand on the wheel at times. Why does Adam get worked up about cyclists on the pavement? Of course pavement cycling is wrong, but it should not cause drivers to become agitated, they should be concentrating on their driving and not allow themselves to be distracted by irrelevant activity on the sidelines.Why so much talk of helmets? The jury is still out on the safety benefits of cycle helmets for utility cycling on the roads.
9:54 AM on 22/11/2011
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Sometimes I think that regulation would be great for cyclists, when I see a cyclist riding in the dark, with no lights on AND cycling on the wrong side of the road, It can be impossible to see them until the last minute (and I have seen it more than once). I also frequently see cyclists who are doing everything right, except they are wobbling (because they are trying to go excessivly fast) and you end up having to give a very wide birth as they are taking over half of the road (plus you need to give them half the road space when overtaking).However, I also think that drivers don't take enough care with cyclists and a friend of mine had an incident which was recorded with a headcam and has been broadcast several times on TV where a driver pulled out on him whilst he was going round a roundabout and he was thrown several meters off his bike. I wish there was a better way for cars and cyclists to share the road without any confrontation or causing issues with each other.
10:50 AM on 22/11/2011
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HELMETS DO NOT INCREASE SAFETY FOR CYCLISTS. Reporting the misconception that cyclists should or must wear helmets is very damaging to the proliferation of cycling - increasing the number of cyclists is the most proven way of increasing safety.
12:55 PM on 22/11/2011
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Adam is annoyed by cyclists who don't wear helmets; why? the only reason i can think of is that he intends to hit a cyclist but doesn't really want to kill them. sure, be annoyed by cyclists who don't look and cyclists without lights - these are people who put others in danger - but no helmet? that is just selfish spite
10:56 AM on 24/11/2011
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Congratulations Adam for having go. But I feel you've got a few thingsamiss, which might explain some of the snags. But first why do you andRussell feel the need to dress up like spacemen just to ride bikes? (toquote ex Transport Secretary Steve Norris). People don't in countries wherecycling is mainstream. Maybe your journeys are on the long side and youfeel the need for speed. Which perhaps explains the conflict withpedestrians. Even so I thought Adam a tad harsh, we mustn't load ontopedestrians the attitude and aggro we get from some drivers. He referred tokeeping to the left and out of the traffic. Bad move Adam. Experiencedcyclists, backed up by 'cyclecraft' and the National Cycling Standards, knowyou need to grab a place in the traffic flow, moving aside only when it'ssafe for you not just convenient for others. This could be why you got 'lefthooked' by a turning car. Did you look over your shoulder? An essential moveeven when you're going straight on; it makes drivers take note. Adamreckoned cycle lanes are brilliant. Again, not quite right. Unless they are2 metres wide (1.5 absolute minimum) they do more harm than good. Hisobservation of the hazard of undertaking a car which has pulled up to giveway to a right turning car is spot-on. Moral: don't do it, or at least onlyvery cautiously. It's better to overtake, exactly as you would when driving.Good to hear it was quicker than the car and enjoyable, despite the snags.And he's getting fitter - the health benefits outweigh the risks 20 to 1,even without continental cycling culture. Well done Adam - keep it up. Best wishes, John Mallows, Policy Director, cyclenation.org.uk
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Good vid, and glad Adam has seen the benefits of cycling! As a frequent cyclist, motorist and pedestrian, it really helps appreciating the others' experience - and also spotting the minority of idiots in each case!.Cycling helmets should not be the concern of motorists. I doubt they reduce the risk of having an accident; things like good cycling practice, traffic flow design, well-maintained bikes, increased numbers of cycle journeys and cyclist and motorist education are the key here. HOWEVER they DO reduce the risk of serious injury, as stated in an article by the British Medical Association (www.bma.org.uk/health_promotion_ethics/transport/promotingsafecycling.jsp?page=5). I trust the BMA to be more impartial than cyclehelmets.org, so will continue to wear my helmet, and will encourage their use - albeit voluntarily. I agree that mandatory use of cycling helmets would discourage cycling, which would do more harm than good..A good site for responsible cyclists is www.stopatred.org/ .
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As many before have mentioned - why the obsession with helmets ? There is contradictory evidence on how wearing a helmet increases a cyclist's safety. It is complusory to wear a helmet during motorsport. I don't wear a helmet when I am driving my car, should I ? More stress should have been placed on the dangerous parking exhibited by many vehicle users. I noticed on my daily commute in Glasgow that there is a major design flaw with the cycle lanes I use. They stop in line with the traffic at junctions. This means vehicles turning left will have to either cross your path or collide with you. There are no 'safety zones' ahead of the traffic and that is why I go through red lights. It does not make my journey quicker, but does make it safer. The other issue is that the cycle lanes on my commute are poorly maintained. The surface has been showing signs for alsmost 4 years that it is breaking up and in desperate need of resurface. It has been reported repeatedly, but only occaisionally gets a patch job. Most cyclists stay away from these lanes to prevent punctures, wheel damage and being thrown off.
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Hello and welcome to my website. My name is Peter Michael Bauer. I have been writing about rewilding (as the reversal of human domestication) since 2006. I'm the author of the book Rewild or Die (2008), the creator of the international web forum for rewilding www.rewild.com, and the founder of the local non-profit, Rewild Portland (based in Portland, OR).
I consider myself a multi-disciplinary artist and environmental educator. I'm a fourth generation Portlander. My first merit badge in the Boy Scouts was basketry. From there I went on to receive the esteemed rank of Eagle Scout. It was during my years camping with the scouts that I began to yearn for a deeper connection to place. At the age of sixteen, inspired by Daniel Quinn's book "Ishmael," I dropped out of high school and ran away from home to travel across the United States and attend Tom Brown Jr.'s Tracking, Nature Observation and Wilderness Survival School in New Jersey. After that I went to Wilderness Awareness School in Washington state, where I attended several Art of Mentoring workshops led by Jon Young. Later I was heavily influenced by the works of Joseph Campbell, Derrick Jensen, Nancy Turner, Douglas Deur, M. Kat Anderson, Finisia Medrano, and Martin Prechtel. I began blogging about rewilding under the moniker "Urban Scout" in 2004. During this time, as Urban Scout (2004 – 2008) I received local press in the The Oregonian, Portland Mercury, Willamette Week, national press in ReadyMade Magazine and international press in Positive Living Magazine (UK) and Chain Reaction (AU) for my efforts to create and promote the culture of rewilding. In 2007 I created www.rewild.com, an international online forum dedicated to discussions about rewilding. In 2008 I published a collection of my blogs into a book, Rewild or Die. In 2009, after dedicating so much time to writing and managing the rewild.com site, I founded Rewild Portland. Rewild Portland is non-profit organization with the mission of creating cultural and environmental resilience through the education of earth-based arts, traditions, and technologies. I love basketry, playing the banjo, and am a fluent speaker of Chinuk Wawa (AKA Chinook Jargon), the Native trade language of the Pacific Northwest and heritage language of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. During the summer of 2012 I attended Lynx Vilden's Stone Age immersion program. I've been an environmental educator for over a decade, working with local organizations like Cascadia Wild, Friends of Tryon Creek, Audubon Society, Portland Waldorf, Shining Star Waldorf, Cleveland High School, and am the executive director at Rewild Portland, a non-profit that I founded. I currently serve on the board of the Columbia Basin Basketry Guild.
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I believe that civilization fundamentally destroys biodiversity and is in the process of an extended collapse. In response I have decided to dedicate my life to walking away from this culture, and to create a new culture based on ancestral hunter-gatherers. In short, I live as a "hunter-gatherer wannabe" in search of meaning and community in the time of ecological and cultural collapse. As a multi-disciplinary artist I feel I have a duty to mythologize this process to inspire others to join the rewilding renaissance. I write stuff, makes videos, take pictures, make designs, teach classes and use this blog as an educational public exhibition space.
At 16 I began to independently study the structure, history, and future of our civilization after reading Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael." This book inspired me to become an anthropological auto-didact. I came to the conclusion that civilization will not, can not, reach a point of sustainability, but come crashing to the ground. If I wanted to survive through this collapse, I needed to learn how to hunt and gather and live with the earth. This became more than simply an idea; it became more like a religion. I dropped out of high school and ran away from home to begin learning how to live in an indigenous way. Since the late 90's I have learned, practiced, and instructed people in these ancient skills through various organizations. Even though I teach these skills, I will always feel vastly ignorant to what even a young child in a hunter-gatherer culture would know and sense of their own environment. I do not consider myself an "expert," but a "catalyst" of rewilding. Meaning, my life's work is to be a catalyst for the rewilding renaissance. Not a guru, just a match lighter. I decided to undo the process of my domestication yet remain within the largely domesticated urban environment of my hometown Portland, Oregon and the more rural and wild areas surrounding it.
As you may imagine, many physical, emotional, social, philosophical and existential difficulties arise as I attempt to rewild myself from a total city slicker born and raised to work as a wage slave in a coffee shop, into the lifestyle of an indigenous hunter-gatherer living off the land in a sustainable way. Indigenous children had the abilities to survive in the wilderness without their culture for several weeks at the age of around 9 to 12 years old. Unlike those kids, I don't have the luxury of a million year old sustainable culture to immerse myself in for 9-12 years to prepare myself for such a rite of passage. Basically I work towards making an immersion "curriculum" for myself, imitating what I know of hunter-gatherer cultures. What I figure out, I teach to others. I do not believe a person can take a few lectures on survival or primitive living and then go do it. I believe it takes years of practice, generations of committed cultures in fact. I have created as close as I can the safety and security children in primitive cultures had while slowly, carefully and respectfully learning to survive without those comforts.
I do not intend to replicate the kid from the book Into the Wild or the guy in the documentary Grizzly Man or the TV show Survivor Man or Man vs. Wild. Cheating death, extreme situations, running away to live alone in the woods or "making it back out alive" stem from a civilized fear of nature and lack of community. I understand the elements can kill and I will not let myself freeze, starve, get eaten, die from sickness, etc. I take baby steps toward a primitive lifestyle; slowly but surely leaving civilization behind . Therefore my health and hygiene, like that of the wild animal, lie at the top of my priorities.
You might think that leaving civilization behind implies leaving the city. However, I cannot run away to the wilderness because my family and friends cannot join me out there, and I cannot live without them. Humans, I believe, have evolved over time as socially organized animals. A lone human, hell even a dozen humans in the woods doesn't come close to our socially designed way of living. A lone bee cannot live without its hive. Humans can function, but not truly live, without their tribe. My "tribe" (for lack of a better word) lives in Portland and the surrounding area. Therefore when I say I have left civilization behind , I speak of course, about the culture or economy of civilization, not the physical space in which civilization resides (the urban jungle). Though I do spend lots of time in the country and wilderness as well.
I built this website to catalog my urban-hunter-gatherer-grower adventure. Enjoy.
For many long-time readers, I get asked this question often. In brief, I say that Urban Scout was a moniker, a muse, and I've moved on. This feels unsatisfactory to me, so I'll go into more detail.
Urban Scout was fictional character created accidentally by me and a friend as a film character during the summer of 2003. He became more of an alter-ego and muse for me in late 2004 when we were wrapping up the short film/tv pilot for the character. From there it turned into a blog and persona. This blog was originally founded as "The Adventures of Urban Scout". I wrote that Urban Scout was "part fact/part fiction, part man/part myth." I said that I tried "to use the comedic irony and novelty of our situation as a clever disguise to cloak and spread a truly sustainable world view, for a time beyond our own." The blog and online persona was very active from about 2006 to 2009. By 2011 I wasn't writing much here anymore and my book tour in the spring of that year was sort of a swan song for the muse. From time to time I hear his voice in my head and it feels like I have to hold him back. It's not really *me* but it's something deeper that speaks through me from a far off place. The place where my soul meets the other world. That's all I can really say about that.
Looking back now is weird. I had to get my own identity back. Learn to interpret what he says and filter it through my own head rather than just give him the reins. I'm able to take what he says and feels and translate it into something more "broadly appealing". However, that's not particularly my goal. My goal over the last few years has been to actively create a rewilding community in Portland, through my non-profit, Rewild Portland. Urban Scout helped me to clarify my own purpose and to understand the power of the muse. I'm too sensitive though. Urban Scout doesn't give a darn what people think, really. But since we share the same body, or rather because I let him use my body and mind as a vehicle, I get blamed for his assholery. My heart just couldn't take it anymore. I'm a nice person and I want people to like me. I had to shut him up because his spirit is one of "truth-speaking" and generally people don't want to hear the truth, and even more especially when it comes from an angry sounding dude. Now that I don't give him total creative control (so to speak), I feel much happier and I've made a lot more headway in creating the kind of life I want to live.
Here's how it all started…
Long ago I ran a monthly independent film screening called Broadcast. We held the screening on the full moon of every month. For each moon, we would ask a "Sacred Question," which people could answer by making a video to show at the following screening. Honestly, I don't remember the question that inspired me with this particular idea. Maybe we asked, "Where will you go when you die," or perhaps, "Who are your ancestors?" It doesn't really matter now I suppose, but it would feel nice to remember.
Whatever the inspiring question, my idea felt simple yet powerful. I wrote a 60 second monologue about a man living in a post-collapse world, traveling back to the ruins of downtown Portland to observe the ghosts of his ancestors, who had sadly not realized they had died long ago and so continued to go to work everyday (Get the metaphor?). I would place the monologue over shots of me in a loin cloth, camouflaged with mud, and perched on buildings like Batman.
In the late summer of 2003 I asked my friend to shoot the video for me. He obliged. We ran around town shooting little bits here, little bits there. When we finished he convinced me to buy coffee wearing my loin cloth while he filmed me. He said he would capture the footage onto his laptop and give it to me later. As fate would have it, that never happened. Instead, he edited the coffee shop vignette and showed that at Broadcast. A funny 30 second short about a dude in a loin cloth, covered in mud, buying coffee like a regular shmoe. He comically titled the short Urban Scout.
Rewind a few years. During my brief time attending the Wilderness Awareness Community School I met a student who alleged to have gone barefoot for three years, wearing merely sandals during the winter. Feeling inspired to try this, I threw my shoes in the closet and set out to feel the world with my feet. Eventually I noticed I could not go in certain places; no shoes, no service. This gave me an idea. I created the trojan horse of the barefoot movement; cutting out the soles of my old shoes and stitching the top of a pair of socks into them. We used the term "Urban Scout" quite often in those days, probably originating from us city slickers who found inspiration from Tom Brown Jr.'s The Way of the Scout. We used the term to describe someone who used the skills of invisibility and wilderness awareness within an urban habitat. Since the shoes rendered my barefootedness invisible and kept the sensory data feet pick up available, I called the shoes my Urban Scout Shoes. No one ever blinked an eye at them, I never got caught.
An ironic, tongue-in-cheek title for a cartoonish character who obviously did not fit the scout code of "invisibility," Urban Scout, the 30 second video sent the Broadcast audience into a fit of laughter, telling us to make more. So he and I wrote several more shorts for Urban Scout, but neither one of us seemed to have the time to shoot them. At a screenwriting class I took (that I later dropped out of) I pitched the idea of an Urban Scout movie to the class. The teacher looked at me and said, "This is a short, right?" At the time I thought it would make a great feature length movie, however it felt intimidating to even attempt something like that. The whole class stared at me and I responded, "…Yes." At that moment, I knew I would write and shoot the movie that summer. I decided to string the shorts we had written into one long short with a story. I rewrote it so many times that the only short to appeared in the longer short: Urban Scout lighting cigarettes for change. An idea that had come to me years previous.
Rewind again, even earlier. At 17 years old, I had just returned from the Tracker School's summer camp for teens. As I walked down the bus mall a woman stepped out from a shelter, "Do you have a light?" she asked. At the time I didn't smoke. "No, sorry." I carried on, but then I had a thought, "Well… Do you mind waiting a minute?" She looked at me funny. I smiled and opened my backpack, pulling out my Bow-drill set. As I began to drill she watched in awe. A small crowd gathering and when I blew the tinder into flames they gave me an applause, while smokers took turns lighting their cigarettes. At that moment I knew I had something. I could feel the potential but didn't yet know where it would take me.
I spent the summer of 2004 shooting The Adventures of Urban Scout.
To gain more publicity for the release of the short, I created Friendster and Myspaceprofiles for Urban Scout. This led to necessary photo shoots and deeper character development. After shooting the film I continued to do these improvisational shoots, and I began to go out alone, without a camera. I signed Urban Scout up for a local Gong Show where the Suburban Scout and I did a mock battle on stage (which, after a few drinks ended up looking more like a real battle as I forgot to duck for one of the punches) and ended with me lighting a cigarette with a bow-drill. Much of the improvisation helped shape the character and changed some of the script too. But something else, something unexpected happened during that time.
People started calling me Urban Scout. People I didn't know, had heard of me… I mean, had heard of Urban Scout… The character I played. Somehow they got it confused and thought that Urban Scout and I had the same body. I began to wonder this too. Especially later on, when parts of the feature length script I had started working on, began to manifest in reality…
My promotional antics culminated at the first Nuclear Winter Formal; a multimedia show I curated to serve as the premiere of The Adventures of Urban Scout short film. You'd think it would end there. But during one of my solo improve days something happened to me. As my bare feet touched the hot pavement and as my loin cloth blew in the wind I remembered something. My quest for several years prior revolved around finding out what an animist hero looked like. Somewhere along the way I gave up on that quest… or thought I had. But here I stood, seeming like quite a model for how I wished I could live myself. A man pulled over and rolled down his window. "
"Hey man." He said.
"Hey." I replied.
"What's with the loin cloth?"
"I hunt and gather. I believe Civilization will collapse real soon and I want to prepare for it."
"Seriously? What do you eat?"
"Road kill, plants, stuff I hunt & fish."
"Where do you sleep?"
"I live at Oaks Bottom, a wildlife refuge down the street."
"No way!? Amazing… Can you teach me?"
Something happened here. Something I can't explain. A trigger in my brain. It does feel amazing, I thought. Really amazing! But then my heart sank. I didn't really live this way… But could I?
"…Uh. I don't… I…" I tried to respond.
"How can I get a hold of you?"
"Yeah. A friend I have lets me use his computer sometimes."
"Crazy. This is crazy. Thank you so much. I'll look for you!"
He sped away. Don't know if he ever found me or what. Never said anything if he did. But something in me changed and I thought about myself, "what a poseur." I only acted. I played Urban Scout, I didn't really live the way he does. That seems impossible… but could I? Why simply write the story of your hero, when you couldlive the story of your hero?
I decided to turn my adventures as Urban Scout into a blog and see if I could actually live like the character in the story. Then things got really weird. Urban Scout became such a part of what I have done, that the boundaries of reality and fantasy began to merge. More and more people called me Urban Scout. Or Scout. Or Urbs, Urbby. Bourbon Scout. And on and on. Parts of the script came true, a nemesis revealed themselves; Hippie Scout, similar to Urban Scout's nemesis in the script, Suburban Scout. I began to date a girl attending PSU for Native American Studies, as Urban Scout dates an Anthropology Major in the script. Multiple stunts, street performances, photo shoots, blogs, Nuclear Winter Formals, internet friends, publicized feuds, summer camps, national and international news articles later… It was funny to see how artistic projects evolve.
Eventually I published a collection of blogs into the book "Rewild or Die". During the book tour my car was totaled by haters. It was then that I felt that my life was being threatened by Urban Scout and I decided to switch gears and put him on ice. He is still in my head, only now I filter what he says and make it more digestible for people. I also don't spend as much time writing or blogging, as I have invested most of my time into creating a community of rewilding in Portland so that we can support each other on the journey back to an ancestral lifeway.


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