In the blink of an eye (well, compared to the time most building projects take) a business park in Buckinghamshire, UK, has switched on the sun. An array of 1500 solar panels took just two months to install and was switched on this month (June, 2011) to meet 9% of the energy needs of the… Continue reading
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UK drivers to plug into the sun
Britain’s first solar powered electric car charger (the eTap) will open next month (July 2011) at the Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence (CEME) at Rainham, Essex. Motorists will pay £1 to plug in at one of the six charging points under the solar panel roof, and then 63p for every hour the electric vehicle (EV)… Continue reading →
Charge is on to bring solar power to the electric car
Is “range anxiety” being toppled from its perch as the top reason not to buy an electric car (apart from the cost)? Has it been replaced by “it’s just as polluting because the energy comes from coal-fired power stations”? I don’t know, but Italian design finesse has just met the solar battery charger, and the… Continue reading →
Making Hay, with an electric connection
Here’s a challenge to the Hay festival organisers. Something to set up for the 2012 event, perhaps? Start a campaign to make it possible for at least some of the very many celebrity guests to travel from London (where I assume most begin their journeys) the 184 miles to this small town in the Welsh… Continue reading →
Car plant to generate enough solar power to make 7000 cars a year.
There’s nothing like a wind turbine to excite local passions, and fill village halls to bursting with angry villagers who have nothing against renewable energy except that they don’t want it here. Solar panels are harder to oppose. The best opponents of one particular scheme close to where I live could come up with was… Continue reading →
More efficient solar panels catching carbon's shadow
It’s been hard to feel particularly positive about the state, and future, of the planet over the past few days. Record global CO2 emissions, after a fall during the recession. Germany easing back on nuclear power. Ongoing climate change denial among the crazy right in the US. And in the UK, a huge number of… Continue reading →