Anyone out on the roads of the UK, or the rest of Europe or North America today, will see enormously polluting vehicles. I don’t mean the common petrol or diesel-powered car. I’m referring to those many, often anonymous looking, vans carrying perishable goods. Until I received a press release about a British company with what… Continue reading
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BA drops plan to power flights with municipal rubbish
Just three weeks after the world’s governments signed a deal to cut Co2 emissions to slow global warming, BA has announced that it has been forced to mothball a project to create 16m gallons of jet fuel from London’s rubbish every year. It cites a number of reasons, (speaking to the Guardian) including low crude oil prices,… Continue reading →
A night on the kinetic tiles helps power African football pitch
Tiles that generate electricity when players step on them are providing some of the energy to floodlight a football pitch in Nigeria. The rest of the power comes from solar panels. The facility, at the Federal College of Education in Lagos, is described as Africa’s first human and solar powered football pitch. Around 90 under-pitch… Continue reading →
Attenborough promotes Global Apollo Programme to halt climate change
In a flurry of interviews on the opening day of COP21, the UN climate talks in Paris, Sir David Attenborough, speaking with the authority few interviewers dare to counter, outlined the simple premise of the Global Apollo Project. Media coverage of the climate crisis has been lamentably low (with the honourable exception of The Guardian… Continue reading →
As Paris climate talks start, is it time to aim for a zero carbon world?
It’s down to this. The world simply stops using fossil fuels, as soon as possible, and much sooner than the year 2100. Most delegations heading to the conference chambers of Paris for the vital UN climate talks from governments around the world won’t have it on their negotiating list, yet. Zero carbon is still a bold… Continue reading →
Pavegen’s footstep energy advance “faster than solar”
The advances made in the pioneering technology of footstep energy has been much more rapid than the progress in solar power when it was starting up, according to the CEO of Pavegen, a UK company at the leading edge of the (kinetic harvesting) business. (Another story by me on Pavegen – here.) Laurence Kemball-Cook,… Continue reading →