Solar has been making steady progress over the past few years. In some countries its costs are coming close to parity with those of energy produced from conventional sources. But until now the breakthrough that would propel it from a miniscule share of the world’s energy generation to a big player has proved elusive. Could… Continue reading
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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 →
Big boost for radically new wind turbine
The more we accept the need for renewable energy, the more we seem to have it in for wind turbines. They creak and groan and, many say, blight fine landscape. They kill birds, it is alleged. They are just too big and intimidating for the virtuous life. Yet we know we would be mad not… Continue reading →
Former World War II airfield could become UK’s first solar park
photo credit: Velo Steve A former World War II airfield in Buckinghamshire could become the UK’s first solar park, after the local council, Aylesbury Vale District Council, granted planning permission. Renewable energy firm Ownergy said installation of the first array of 1,500 panels, , start in the New Year in the middle of a former… Continue reading →