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13 Feb 2007		We need more power		Mark Harrop


5 Feb 2007		Too much talk, too little action		Anna Frisina


29 Jan 2007		Solar power IS the future		Stefan van den Broeck


29 Jan 2007		More energy is needed in the developing world		Peter Smith


22 Jan 2007		We need to confront today’s pessimism		David Perks


22 Jan 2007		A ‘green test’ could be applied to new legislation		Richard Brown


22 Jan 2007		We will have to adapt		Javier Prez Navarrete


20 Jan 2007		The case has not been made: we have obligations to future generations		Bob Brecher


19 Jan 2007		Renewable energy must meet our expansion requirements		Vanessa Mamo-Mason


19 Jan 2007		We should do everything suggested: the survival of our civilisation is at stake		Professor Ian Mills


18 Jan 2007		Green issues? Give it a rest		Alan Cork


18 Jan 2007		Adam Vaughn is wrong, wrong, wrong		R Kressman


17 Jan 2007		The prejudice against technology		Jeremy Nicholson


17 Jan 2007		Stop the debate: action is needed		Michael Hancock


17 Jan 2007		Apocalypse now		Reverend Hazel Patricia Barkham


17 Jan 2007		Call this a debate?		John Nightingale


17 Jan 2007		A solution will not be found in our capitalist society		John Ludi


16 Jan 2007		Solar IS nuclear		Graeme Laver


16 Jan 2007		The need for invention		Erik Fest


16 Jan 2007		There are technologies that business has ignored		Eddie Powell


16 Jan 2007		We must adjust our lifestyles		John Busby


15 Jan 2007		There is a world shortage of affordable energy		Professor Fenton F Robb


15 Jan 2007		We are improving power intensity		Max Beran


14 Jan 2007		What we know and don’t know		Oliver Sparrow


9 Jan 2007		How can ‘not using as much energy’ save the planet?		Peter Dunford


3 Jan 2007		Does the internet contribute to global warming too?		Angela Benson


15 Dec 2006		An economist’s views are needed		Lenny Sueper


15 Dec 2006		Green taxes do not go far enough		Charles Fiddes Payne


14 Dec 2006		Supply and demand		Larry Stevens


14 Dec 2006		Energy should be expensive		Nicholas Frankopan


13 Dec 2006		Nuclear energy is a stopgap solution		John Sims


13 Dec 2006		The solution lies in a balanced mix		James Hamilton


13 Dec 2006		Nuclear IS the answer		Stewart S Cohen


13 Dec 2006		Let the economic laws guide us		Oli Rhys




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	The debate

	Adam Vaughan New Consumer magazine

	Joe Kaplinsky science writer

	Malcolm Grimston associate fellow, Chatham House

	Mark Jaccard Simon Fraser University

	Jim Skea UK Energy Research Centre

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Useful resources
	UK Government Energy Review
	International Energy Agency
	Towards a sustainable energy economy Natural Environment Research Council