The Welsh are so different from the English, aren’t they? They like rugby, unlike the English. Apart from the passionate 90,000 who regularly pack Twickenham, and the grounds at Northampton and Leicester and Bath and Gloucester and one or two other places. The two nations definitely diverge on football, don’t they? No interest in the… Continue reading
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Can solar lamps displace Kerosene in Africa by 2020?
One big joint social and environmental problem in the world can be solved relatively easily. I don’t mean solved in the sense of: “Oh, here is a really good idea that might just come off a few years from now if enough governments and people support it, and we are prepared to spend millions.” It’s… Continue reading →
Fast charging into the future as electric cars bypass range anxiety
Remember “range anxiety”? It used to be on every electric car (EV) detractor’s lips, or spoken in its long form, thus: “I wouldn’t buy one of those Nissan Leafs because I don’t want to run out of power in the middle of nowhere.” Two new words are now replacing the petrol head’s favorite anti-EV excuse…. Continue reading →
Is this U.K.’s greenest housing estate? The Passivhaus rural idyll
Is this the U.K.’s greenest housing estate, this vision of snug, low energy Passivhaus life in the country? What is believed to be the largest Passivhaus development to date has been given the go-ahead. Councillors on Herefordshire Council voted in favour of the estate of 150 houses, on a 20-acre site in the village of Kingstone… Continue reading →
Cool lighting – How the Philips Hue LED made it to the Apple store
Apple stores are some of the most enticing retail outlets in the High Street and shopping mall. They sell what is surely the world’s most seductive range of technological items affordable by the general public. You may just like to wander in for the cheerful white light buzz, or for the infectious enthusiasm of so… Continue reading →
Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon moves on – Severn Barrage criticised
On the day when serious doubts are raised about the economic and environmental case behind a plan to build a £25bn tidal barrage spanning the Severn Estuary, another, much smaller, scheme not many miles away on the same body of water n South Wales moved to a significant next stage. A community share offer was… Continue reading →