User:Sunbite/Sandbox

My Sandbox
This is my own area for experimenting and learning how to edit Wikipedia. --Sunbite (talk) 08:14, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Lewis Hamilton has paid tribute to his father after his victory at the Monaco grand-prix in May 2008.

United Kingdom Location
I saw this note and liked it, so copied it here...

XXXXX is a British company based in the United Kingdom region of Scotland. The UK is the internationally recognised name of this country, not Scotland, England, Wales nor Northern Ireland nor even Great Britain. I have no problem with any of the four regions being stated, but the UK must also be listed, as the UK is the official, legal and sovereign country name, like it or not. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia and therefore must state accurate facts, not people's own personal preferences. In my humble opinion, this is a non-argument and the United Kingdom should take precedence. This is a norm across many FTSE 100 companies listed on Wikipedia.

Adding my mark-ups
This might be useful for individual sections:

and this is the banner for the whole damn article (as was seen on Doosan Babcock stub)

Energy policy of the United Kingdom
I've made a start by boldly editing (well actually replacing) the lead section.

The current Energy Policy of the United Kingdom is set out in the Energy White Paper of May 2007, building on previous work including the 2003 Energy White Paper and the Energy Review Report in 2006. The 2007 White Paper: “Meeting the Energy Challenge” sets out the Government’s international and domestic energy strategy to address the long term energy challenges faced by the UK, and to deliver 4 key policy goals:
 * 1) To put the UK on a path to cut carbon dioxide emissions by some 60% by about 2050, with real progress by 2020;
 * 2) To maintain reliable energy supplies;
 * 3) To promote competitive markets in the UK and beyond, helping to raise the rate of sustainable economic growth and to improve productivity; and
 * 4) To ensure that every home is adequately and affordably heated.

The scope of the energy policy includes the production and distribution of electricity, transport fuel usage, and means of heating (significantly Natural Gas). The policy recognises: "Energy is essential in almost every aspect of our lives and for the success of our economy. We face two long-term energy challenges:
 * Takling climate change by reducing carbon dioxide emissions both within the UK and abroad; and
 * Ensuring secure, clean and affordable energy as we become increasingly dependent on imported fuel."

The policy also recognises that the UK will need around 30-35GW of new electricity generation capacity over the next two decades as many of the UK’s current coal and nuclear power stations, built in the 1960s and 1970s, reach the end of their lives and are set to close.

The 2006 Energy Review reintroduced the prospect of new nuclear power stations in the UK. However, following a judicial review requested by Greenpeace, on February 15, 2007 elements of the 2006 Energy Review were ruled 'seriously flawed', and 'not merely inadequate but also misleading'. As a result, plans to build a new generation of nuclear power plants were ruled illegal at that time. (See Nuclear power in the United Kingdom for details). In response, the Government ran “The Future of Nuclear Power” consultation from May to October 2007. The Government’s response to the consultation conclusions, published in January 2008, state “set against the challenges of climate change and security of supply, the evidence in support of new nuclear power stations is compelling.”

The January 2008 Energy Bill updates the legislative framework in the UK to reflect their current policy towards the energy markets and the challenges faced on climate change and security of supply. Key elements of the bill address nuclear, carbon capture and storage, renewables, and offshore gas and oil. A framework to encourage investment in nuclear power within a new regulatory environment was simultaneously published in the January 2008 Nuclear White Paper.

Carbon Capture and Storage
The TUC issued a paper in March 2008 "Clean Coal in the UK and European electricity mix". I found it from Doosan Babcock's intranet home page. It advocates speeding up the development and implementation of CCS. It makes the interesting point that only CCS has the potential to reduce the carbon green house gas (GHG) emissions from fossil fuels. There is a theory that all the fossil fuels in the world WILL be used, coal and the energy within it is too valuable a commodity not to get used. Therefore adopting Nuclear, renewables etc will only defer or slow down the rate the fossil fuels are burned and the carbon GHG released. CCS addresses the realease of carbon GHG from fossil fuel, and is therefore key in takling climate change. I should beef up the CCS section in the UK Energy Policy article.