The big advances in slowing climate change will come from international agreements backed up with strong national government programmes. But there will be technological fixes too, chipping away at that inexorably growing CO2 emissions figure, and providing cost and other efficiency savings at the same time. Taken together, the ones that turn into products and… Continue reading
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Fine electric bus, but Milton Keynes cannot match Europe’s public transport
The latest easyJet magazine extols Milton Keynes. It is certainly a city of energy and achievement, and it deserves to be recognised as a pleasant place to live and work, just 30 minutes by fast train to London, even if it doesn’t have many interesting conventional tourism features. It is in a good central position… Continue reading →
Tidal lagoon in Swansea could power 100,000 homes
This blog was first published in the spring of 2013. Swansea has its second chance to lead the world. Will it take it? 206 years ago the city launched the world’s first passenger railway. This week (April 8, 2013) a consortium announced a £10m “investment offering” to fund its proposal to build a “tidal lagoon”… Continue reading →
Is Swansea’s tidal lagoon the new pinup renewable scheme?
It was the pinup renewable energy project of the early 2000s, a barrage across the mighty Severn estuary. Second highest tides in the world, providing enough clean, green power to provide 5% of the UK’s energy needs. And a new 11 mile (15 km) road and rail link between England and Wales as well. The… Continue reading →
How to turn bright ideas to address climate change into viable companies
We cannot possibly know to what extent good ideas and smart technology might help us mitigate the effects of climate change, and even slow it down. Just as in the 1980s we had no inkling of how developments in computer chips and electronics would enable vast numbers of us to communicate with one another instantly… Continue reading →
Formula E: next big crowd-pulling event to line our city streets?
Tour de France cyclists in The Mall, July 7th, 2014 Elite cycling – the new, hot draw on the street Tour de France is sure to return – but where? Could Formula E be next big mass spectator sport? Have we seen the start of a mass spectator event culture in Britain? The astonishing success of… Continue reading →