Anyone who has travelled any distance on the roads in the USA will be be familiar with the intimidating phenomenon of the super sized American truck, powering up behind on their odysseys across the nation. They may also have noticed the alternative transport solution, once marginal but now increasingly relevant. In the US freight trains… Continue reading
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We have ignition, for “one giant leap" electric driving
March 21, the first day of spring, and very appropriate for Britain’s “one small step, one giant leap” moment. Libya and Japan rightly dominate the news schedules, but in the longer perspective we will look back on today for the significance of keys handed over in a Hertfordshire car showroom. Nissan today began deliveries of… Continue reading →
Low-energy homes–old and new
The writer has been a frequent contributor to the Sunday Times Home section. How snug was was your winter? Did your house cope comfortably with the bitter chill of December 2010, or, like most of the rest of us, did you simply crank up the central heating and throw on more blankets? Here are two… Continue reading →
Time to inform drivers on vehicle emissions besides Co2
More hazardous pollutants from a car exhaust apart from Co2 I live close to a pollution hotspot, and, like many otherwise well-intentioned people I know, I add to that pollution. I don’t drop litter, or pitch trolleys into the canal, or do things I could easily stop. This is everyday, going-about-normal-life pollution I’m talking… Continue reading →
Sunshine solution for smelly old rubbish dumps
Full up rubbish dumps could be covered over with solar farms, as as an extreme greening of the environment option. You may have seen these beguiling but useless green mounds: a previously rough area caringly restored to nature, perhaps? But look closer and there’s something very wrong. The clue is the pipes and gadgets siphoning,… Continue reading →
An affordable electric car, just In time for the Olympics?
Is the affordable electric car (EV) finally here? The Renault Zoe will be in showrooms by spring 2012, just in time to be driven (congestion charge free, of course) through the streets of London to the Olympic Games. It should cost around £12,000, although with an additional, unexpected, expense. You lease the battery for around… Continue reading →