Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

Three pieces of news... 1: Updated SEWTHA video There is a new release of my 2010 "Sustainable Energy - without the hot air"...

I heard that recently-built UK offshore wind farms have higher load factors than old wind farms. I thought it would be interesting to plot...

Having had a go at the walls, the windows, the roof, and air-tightness, I've decided to get the last physical improvement done to our ...

I'm giving the Charles Simonyi Annual Lecture tonight (14 November 2014) and during my talk about Why climate change action is diffic...

When I published Sustainable Energy - without the hot air , there were quite a few topics I could have included but didn't because the...

How would the footprint of a shale gas operation compare with the footprint of other ways of delivering a similar quantity of energy? Th...

John Biggins sent me a helpful email querying a number in my book's chapter on "Stuff" . I have a question about the embed...

Clean water is crucial not only for humans' direct use but also for agriculture. Attention often focuses o...

The aviation industry has made amazing progress. In just 111 years since the first controlled, powered, heavier...

I'm very grateful to volunteers Alessandro Pastore, Javier Oca, Valentina Rossi, Alberto Marcone, Paolo Errani, and Simone Gallarini...

I am giving the Clerk Maxwell Lecture for the IET on 6 March 2014 at the Royal Institution, London, UK. This post and its discussion area ...

My attention was recently drawn to an impressively fuel-efficient turboprop aircraft, the ATR72-600 , which is claimed to be about...

In December 2013, Christopher Booker in the Telegraph discusses a study by Gordon Hughes, published by the Renewable Energy Foundation in ...

Three spectacularly large solar power stations have recently been in the news: Ivanpah , located in California, but within spitting distanc...

The Chinese translation of Sustainable Energy - without the hot air is now available on amazon.cn I am very grateful to the Chinese Ac...

I've updated my "Map of the World" which shows, country by country, how human power-consumption per unit area compares with...

In Sustainable Energy - without the hot air I spent a couple of pages discussing hydrogen transportation, under the title "Hydrogen ...

On 13th December 2012, I helped launch the French translation of Sustainable Energy - without the hot air by giving a talk in Paris, ho...

Christian Gebbe has made a nice Personal Energy Estimator based on Sustainable Energy - without the hot air . All the key numbers are ad...

I love data! Here is an animation showing the evolution of global temperature and the number of sunspots over the last 129 years. And ...

- how the laws of Physics constrain our sustainable energy options TEDx Warwick 2012 (18 minutes). [ Original slides are also available he...

In December 2011, DECC published the Carbon Plan and version 3 of the 2050 Pathways Calculator . As before, this open-source engineering-ba...

DECC is advertising roughly a dozen posts for engineers and scientists. Here's the advertisement for 7 grade-7 engineers and 1 grade-6...

DECC is running a public debate, using the new 2050 Calculator , at blog.decc.gov.uk . The debate was opened by eight experts (Mike Childs, ...

On Thursday 3rd March, DECC is going to be publishing version 2 of the 2050 Pathways Calculator, along with an updated version of the calcul...

In July 2009 I wrote a post about wind-powered vehicles that travel directly downwind faster than the wind , giving links to videos explain...

At the Civil Service Awards last month, the Science, Engineering and Technology Award was won by the DECC 2050 Pathways Team for their wor...