A new meaning for green tea
by Charlotte Neale How many cups of tea did you have last week? The chances are that at least one was boiled by the wind. At one point last week, 10 per cent of the UK’s electricity was being supplied...
View ArticlePedal potential
Our microgeneration man Ian Cuthbert recently used this blog to lay to rest the idea that you could pedal your way to powering your home – advocating the reliable gains of solar PV over drafting...
View ArticleTidal power: current affairs
A recent Oxford University study has taken a look at the potential of part of Scotland’s tidal power infrastructure, the Pentland Firth. The newspapers’ angle was that Scotland can ‘wave goodbye’ to...
View ArticleBuilding capacity – an energy storage future starts now
The energy grid of the future will look very different. Aside from the projected changes in how energy will be generated, there’s the issue of storage to consider. This is not just for technologies...
View ArticleMaking a place for independent energy
Meeting the energy demands of the future is going to require action on a number of fronts. Between the large energy infrastructure projects that seem forever in the news and the behaviour change that...
View ArticleEastern promise for African energy
Living in the UK and caring about the future of energy, you can often get caught up in Euro-centric thinking; looking at domestic and EU targets for carbon reduction, forgetting that it’s an...
View ArticleRenewables ageing gracefully
One of the criticisms of renewable energy is that the effectiveness of technology decreases with age. Like a car depreciating in value, this is represented as a black mark against the reputation of...
View ArticleLooking on the bright side
Photo: NJ.com Perhaps the most telling sign of the transition to low energy lighting across the world was the recent re-opening of the Thomas Edison Monument in New Jersey, US, (pictured in...
View ArticleUnlimited energy for all? Putting Tesla to the test
Nikola Tesla, the inventor of the alternating current among many other breakthroughs, believed that electromagnetism could be harnessed to provide abundant free energy over huge areas – perhaps even...
View ArticleNew pylon design hits UK shores
Danish design is all set to transform our electricity network, as the first six of the new ‘T-Pylons’ are to be tested on UK soil for the first time. This is something we first talked about three...
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