Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

In July 2009, I nominated two newspapers for the Hot Air Oscar for Most inaccurate numbers in a right-wing newspaper . A late submission has...

About 8 months ago, I made a short video with the help of Cambridge University, called "how many lightbulbs" [ 1 ]. This week, Cam...

Some super people have been developing ways of presenting energy numbers and engaging the public and policy-makers in consensus-building con...

One year ago, I wrote a blog titled how to boil water , which linked to a short essay, "how much is inside hot water?" . Over the...

I'm reading Challenged by Carbon: The Oil Industry and Climate Change by Bryan Lovell. Bryan Lovell is a geologist who has worked in ac...

I had a brilliant tour of the Modec electric delivery-vehicle factory in Coventry, and they let me take a one-hour test-drive in an instrum...

Oh dear... The 'green' twaddle keep on pouring out of the commercial world... Theo Markettos writes: "I'd like to nominate ...

The International Herald Tribune and New York Times published an article featuring my energy consumption versus population density diagram....

I'm happy to announce that Sustainable Energy - without the hot air is now available for the Kindle . A lot of Kindle users have been a...

When I gave my energy talk in Cambridge two weeks ago, one member of the audience objected to my figure ( page 13 ) showing per capita emiss...

There is a very nice you tube video showing all planes flying during a 24 hour period. I have extracted a frame every 5 seconds to make an ...

Get ready to splutter with astonishment... This Reuters feature about UK Carbon Capture and Storage, featuring the switching on of a new Oxy...

A Hot Air Oscar nomination for boldest appropriation of the word eco goes to Australian company "todae" for their promotion, in ...

The website realtimecarbon.org encourages people to be aware of the carbon intensity of the grid, saying " Wouldn't it be better i...

INCPEN , The Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment, have produced a super leaflet called Table for one . It is a detailed docum...

This post is fairly off-topic for a sustainable-energy blog, as it is a review of a film that I enjoyed, and would like to recommend. Moon i...

In SEWTHA, I included, as a joke, a map titled "Where the wild things are" . The map shows in white the areas within 2km of human ...

The first thing I got excited about recently is the news announcement that roughly 20 big German companies are talking about investing €400 ...

RouteRANK provides a journey-costing service, which tells you all the different ways of getting from A to B, how long it will take, how muc...

Well well! Ed Miliband's announcement of the government's energy road-map has given rise to a remarkable pair of nominations for the...

I'm upset to discover that some criminal types have gone to considerable lengths to make and sell fake paperback versions of Sustainabl...

SEWTHA was published in the USA on May 1st. Last week, it was reviewed in Science magazine , and now some people who like SEWTHA have writte...

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 ....