by Vince Adams | Jan 21, 2016 | Renewable Energy, Uncategorized
Power from the People I was at a meeting of the South Somerset Hydropower Group (SSHG) a couple of weeks ago. Have you noticed how whenever a group of British people meet on more than one occasion to discuss matters of mutual interest, they instinctively elect a...
by Keith Wheaton-Green | Dec 7, 2012 | Renewable Energy
We came across this article by E2B pulse – the UK carbon reduction network on a new study which has revealed the extent of negative media coverage of renewables. It says: “More than half of articles on renewable energy published by the UK’s leading...
by Vince Adams | Oct 24, 2012 | Renewable Energy
I came across this interesting item in the journal Indian Chemical Engineer this week… Every time you take a step, mechanical energy goes through the sole of your shoe, and scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California are figuring out a way...
by Theresa McManus | Oct 8, 2012 | Electric Transport
The BBC reported last week that a study from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology study found that greenhouse gas emissions rose dramatically if coal is used to produce the electricity. For me this is not really news – anything we do using electricity is...
by Wendy Pillar | Oct 3, 2012 | Electric Transport, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Living
I have heard it said that electric cars and other renewable energy technology use rare earth elements and that this is a reason why they are not really ‘green’. But is this true? Dysprosium, terbium, europium, neodymium and yttrium are all extremely rare and are vital...
