Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

I thought it would be a fun exercise to see, on a map, whether we could imagine powering the University of Cambridge from local wind turbin...

I wrote an article for the Guardian. I called it "The one-percent rule" . They called it "Talk of 'kinetic energy plates...

I'd like to nominate the belu bottle of natural mineral water for the Hot Air Oscar for the greatest ecological achievements by a 500-m...

A nomination for most inspirational fluff on a bottle goes to Avra, Greek water manufacturers. "It's so easy being green" ......

Perhaps I need to stop doing media interviews... I wrote some notes about Whitelee recently . Last weekend, the BBC asked me to record some ...

I have updated my data on windfarms. I've gone through roughly 75 farms, finding the power per unit area. You can see the results here ....

Friends have been asking "how is the book selling?" - I'm happy to report that Sustainable Energy - without the hot air has b...

As I mentioned in another post , I switched from electricity-generator, Powergen, to "Good Energy", out of irritation at Powergen...

Whitelee wind farm, the biggest wind farm in Europe, is to be completed and 'switched on' this week. And the news says that the pow...

We are happy to nominate for the "best GREEN advertising" Hot Air Oscar, the "Eco-Smart" organization in America who adv...

I'm delighted to see that the response to Sustainable Energy - without the hot air so far has been remarkably positive. There's jus...

I was on "More or Less"a couple of weeks ago, and wrote an article for the BBC . One topic mentioned was how much good it does to ...

I went to Edinburgh botanic garden today. The visitors' shops of such places are often nesting places for the monsters that spawn green ...

One thing I've wanted to do, after the Energy book, is to make an interactive tool that conveys the scale of renewable facilities requir...

Philip Fowler has nominated Tesco for the "Every Little Helps" lifetime achievement award, in recognition of their services to c...

I wrote an article, " We need a plan that adds up ", for The Guardian and publicservice.co.uk . For the Grauniad I also created a...

BBC Radio 4 has a programme called More or Less , all about numbers. On 24 April 2009 the programme opened with a conversation between me ...

Australian Minister for Resources and Energy, Martin Ferguson , is hereby nominated for the Hot Air Oscar for highest-impact use of the word...

On youtube , there is a new video, arranged by the University of Cambridge, featuring someone not unrelated to me, holding a lightbulb and t...

There is a superb article on Greenwash by Ed Gillespie . Buy eco-lights, get free air miles. Wow, Tesco has to be a strong contender for the...

Thank you to Pierre Joly for nominating The Plug In And Go Green Eco Charger for the Hot Air Oscar for Best Use of the "if-everyone...

British engineering breaks wind-powered land-speed record. Wow!

Nick Cook has nominated the EDF Energy ideal home show, Alex Hort, and the University of Plymouth for a Hot air Oscar for " An ingeniou...

UK legislation requires that many large buildings display a certificate, updated every few months, that shows "how efficiently the bu...

People often emphasize the role of uncontrolled accidental burning of fossil fuels in backward parts of the world. I grew up in a part of th...

Great to see that colleges are training people to be eco heroes, installing HEAT PUMPS and SOLAR THERMAL SYSTEMS !! Brilliant news.

Graphic designers for good - looks like a useful community of people to tap into! They don't just want to promote useless consumerist t...

This is my third post giving factual data about the power per unit land area of wind farms in Britain. My first post described a farm near t...