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• 1. Stephen  |  September 23rd, 2007 at 6:20
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  I hope you’ll give us a daily update!

• 2. Laurence Boyce  |  September 23rd, 2007 at 23:43
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  Saw you today on telly Harriet. This was at the stage where you were having to take interventions from some of the discontented unreconstructed socialists in the audience, with the chairman basically telling them to get lost! Wish you’d be my Facebook friend! xxx

• 3. Andy Kadir-Buxton  |  September 24th, 2007 at 15:31
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  It is difficult to get hold of all the figures necessary to show that countries can become near-zero carbon countries. However, there is a simple explanation that adequately reveals how this necessary target can be achieved. All our power requirements are for lighting, heating, transport, and energy for such things as industry on down to exercise machines. To make things simple we can assume that each category is 25% of total power. The lighting can be zero rated by building Buxton Geothermal Turbine Generators, the heating can be near-zero rated by installing Starlite coatings, that prevents heat escaping, on the walls and ceilings of all premises, and by having electrical heating from renewable sources we cut heating CO2 emissions to zero. Transport can be made near-zero in terms of carbon emissions by ensuring that all vehicles use carbon zero electricity, instead of petrol. This may seem to be an anathema to ‘‘petrol heads’’ but this displeasure can be simply overcome. At the moment when inventors come up with new technologies for electrical vehicles Oil Companies buy and destroy the patents and designs. These patents have a shelf life of ten years so we could soon put together a group of past inventors in this field to reproduce their work legally, as an intergovernmental team. We still have the problem of transport by aeroplane and ship having to use fossil fuels. However, their carbon footprints can be at least halved by having their fuels mixed with water using an ultrasonic dibber. Finally, the power needed for energy can be made entirely of carbon free electricity. New ways of making industry work using electricity instead of the gas that they are used to will be needed, but these are not insurmountable problems given that the Governments of the world have ten years to achieve the target.

  How about it Harriet?

• 4. Laurence Boyce  |  September 24th, 2007 at 16:58
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  Hey Harriet, I love the off mike moments! Who was it that said, “oh my God, there’s a woman in a big white hat holding the hand of a black man”? Was it you or Hazel? More tomorrow please! xxx

• 5. Tom Faull  |  September 26th, 2007 at 22:27
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  Hi Harriet, it was very nice to meet you at The Branksome in Bournemouth for the lesbian and gay LGBT Labour party at the weekend. It was also great to see such support from the party. Good luck Alon.

• 6. sue law  |  September 30th, 2007 at 22:51
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  Harriet,
  Fine speach.
  The conference went very well.
  No need to fear the Tories this week at all.
  Spring autumn or fall we will win.
  Brown has it in the bag.

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