Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

On this week's Top Gear, James May called the FCX Clarity "the most important car for 100 years". [Photo courtesy of automobil...

Straight up, I want to say I love renewables , and I believe that we should have a massive increase in renewables as part of making a sustai...

Too many units! Too many things to measure! In Europe they talk about "the one litre car" (using 1 litre of fuel per 100 km). In B...

I always lampoon 'green electricity tariffs' in my lectures. The Grauniad published a good article on them yesterday. Key points: th...

A friend told me he'd been fighting with his kitchen-cohabitants over the question of whether to simply use the gas to make hot water fo...

According to the Dail Mail , crazy European legislation forcing car drivers to keep headlights on ALL day could inflate fuel costs by up to ...

I'm happy to announce that Sustainable Energy - without the hot air is finished. It's got a publisher, a cover design, and a public...

This article is by Kele Baker and David MacKay, based on data collected by Kele The performance of the G-Wiz varies with driving conditions ...

There is a strange violation of economics going on on the Nellis Solar Power Plant wikipedia page. It asserts that the US air force are pay...

Well, well, it's been an interesting few days... Since The Register posted an article about my draft book , I've received a flood ...

Wallace Broecker has been promoting the idea that `artificial trees are the way to solve global warming'. Pushed for details, he says th...

I'd like to highlight Sandy Polak's page on how to be green . It is the best page I've read on this topic. The main thing I woul...

An emailer pointed me to a great blog that features well-written explanations of the authors' occasional Eco bollocks awards . Two mode...

I used to summarise British energy consumption by saying "transport, heating, electricity". However I just read Too Good To Be Tru...

Whenever a renewable power facility is described they always say how many 'homes' it will power. Today's news says The 100MW Gle...

Letter to the editor The Independent Sent 27 December 2007 Sir, the article ' ...

Yippee! I've been trying to find a free database of LCA information (to answer questions like 'what's the embodied energy or emb...

My first blog. (I've been writing webpages for ages, but I thought a blog might be useful for my soon to be finished book .) 1998 was a...