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Category Archives: CHP
Free market solutions to climate change
There are certain aspects of extinction rebellions campaign aims and methods that do give me cause for concern. Be it gluing themselves to the doors of a oil industry conference (you are aware that glues are an oil based product, … Continue reading
Posted in aviation, Biomass, cars, CHP, clean energy, climate change, efficiency, energy, environment, EU, fossil fuels, future, Global warming denial, history, LFTR, nuclear, Passivhaus, peak oil, politics, power, renewables, Shale Gas, subsidy, sustainability, sustainable, technology, transport, water scams
Tagged cars, CHP, climate, creationism, economics, energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy policy, environment, EU, farming, fuel economy, greenhouse gas emissions, history, marine, news, nuclear, peak oil, power, Renewable, renewable energy, renewables, sailing, shipping, Solar, sustainability, technology, Thorium, transport, UK, us politics, vegan, wind farms, wind turbines, woo
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News roundup: Sustainability edition
First solar, now the Tories go after biomass Be careful what you wish for, the Tories might try to implement it and then make a pigs breakfast of everything. For quite sometime, the UK has fallen behind in terms of … Continue reading
Posted in Biomass, CHP, clean energy, climate change, economics, energy, environment, EU, fossil fuels, Global warming denial, history, Japan, news, politics, renewables, sustainability, technology, thorium, water scams
Tagged creationism, energy, environment, future, history, Japan, news, sustainability, technology, us politics
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Sweden and the incineration dilemma
An interesting video here from Journeyman pictures about Sweden and its policy of incineration. The Swedish banned landfills on environmental grounds back in 2005 and took to adopting stricter recycling policies, with the idea being that anything that couldn’t be recycled … Continue reading
Posted in CHP, climate change, energy, environment, EU, sustainability, sustainable, technology
Tagged Energy policy, environment, greenhouse gas emissions, power, renewable energy, sustainability, technology
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The trouble with plastic waste
With large garbage patches of plastic growing in the oceans, the ecological impact of our oil addiction is now a major crisis. And it’s also starting to impact on human health, with particles of plastic finding its way into human … Continue reading
Posted in Biomass, cars, CHP, clean energy, climate change, economics, efficiency, energy, environment, EU, fossil fuels, future, Global warming denial, news, peak oil, politics, power, renewables, sustainability, sustainable, technology, transport
Tagged climate, energy, environment, future, greenhouse gas emissions, power, renewable energy, sustainability, technology
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The little sub that could
I stumbled across this vlog post this week which talked about how back in 2006, during a wargame, a Swedish made diesel electric submarine of the Gotland class managed to “sink” a US aircraft carrier. Evading an entire carrier battle group … Continue reading
Posted in CHP, climate change, efficiency, energy, environment, future, Global warming denial, nuclear, peak oil, politics, renewables, technology
Tagged climate, energy, environment, future, history, marine, nuclear, power, renewable energy, renewables, Solar, technology, us politics
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Fusion power always 30 years away, now its more like 50 years away
When it comes to dealing with global issues like climate change or peak fossil fuels, I’d argue we’ll need to focus technology we already have, or what can realistically be developed in the near future. Relying on more fantastical high … Continue reading
Posted in Biomass, CHP, climate change, economics, efficiency, energy, environment, fossil fuels, future, LFTR, nuclear, peak oil, politics, power, renewables, Shale Gas, Shale oil, space, sustainability, sustainable, Tar Sands, technology
Tagged CHP, climate, energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy policy, environment, future, greenhouse gas emissions, nuclear, peak oil, power, Renewable, renewable energy, renewables, space, sustainability, technology
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A review of Arcologies
One concept for how to reduce the environmental impact of cities is arcologies. The word itself is a combination of the words “architecture” and “ecology”, which neatly sums up the idea of developing self sustaining buildings with the minimum of environmental impact. … Continue reading
Posted in Biomass, CHP, clean energy, climate change, environment, future, housing, Passivhaus, peak oil, politics, power, renewables, space, subsidy, sustainability, sustainable, technology, transport
Tagged CHP, climate, energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy policy, environment, farming, future, greenhouse gas emissions, housing, power, Renewable, renewable energy, renewables, Solar, sustainability, technology, Trigeneration, UK
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