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Debating Energy Futures

aka: Debating Energy Futures: Coal, Gas and Nuclear

Subject

Energy; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 34 minutes), £49.00

With case studies from the US, the UK, China and India, this title asks how important coal, gas and nuclear will be in the future global energy mix. The programme looks at what is being done to clean up...

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John Lillicrap on oil-to-gas savings (1979)

Genre

Interview

In view of rising oil prices, marketing manager for North Thames Gas, John Lillicrap, on the saving in running costs to be achieved by converting to gas as the most economic fuel for home heating, and on the...

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Energy 2 (1995 Video)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 39 min.

Aims to link issues in science, technology, society and the environment, and begins with a 10-minute INSET segment. Looks at the unprecedented demand for energy in the industrialised world, and considers the...

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EFFICIENCY SHOW

Date released

Jan 1954

Series name

Mining Review 7th Year

Issue no

5

NoS ID

345814

Story no

2 / 4

BFI synopsis: Manchester fuel efficiency exhibition held in the City Hall. NCB Commentary - November in Manchester, and it looks like it, too. But it’s a bit brighter inside the City Hall, where a...

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The Coal Rush

Date released

11 Nov 1926

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1632

NoS ID

387807

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: Many ‘amateur miners’ were busy at Dagenham collecting (without permits) coal salvaged from a burnt-out steamer.

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An Ingenious Tradesman Adapts A Gas Reservoir To His Motor Van

Date released

1918

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

NoS ID

388576

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: France. Gas fuelled vehicle.

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Electricity Generation: Non-Renewables (2015)

Subject

Energy; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 27 minutes), £49.00

Educational DVD aimed at KS 3-5. Fossil Fuels and nuclear energy still account for over 60% of the UK’s electricity generation and in some countries their use is even on the rise. As well as containing...

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Gas prices and the need for a long term energy policy (1978)

Genre

Interview

Secretary of State for Energy, Tony Benn on gas prices having remained low whilst coal and electric are having to cope with increases. On discussions for a long term energy policy, in view of concerns over...

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Goes 1000 Miles at 1d - 10 Miles

Date released

3 Sep 1917

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

673

NoS ID

076830

Story no

3 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

Gas-fuelled motor-cycle demonstration.

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Coal Drive!

Date released

5 May 1932

Series name

Pathe Sound Pictorial

Issue no

735

NoS ID

114206

Story no

3 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

The Swedish academy for engineering science has conducted experiments of using charcoal-gas as motive power for motor trucks and tractors.

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