Ilika is like a number of other start-up renewable energy companies quoted on London’s AIM. They are pioneers in trying to develop new technologies that help us reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. The problems that such companies face are that they struggle to find funds and take a long time to prove up their [...]
Part of “the military’s vast furnace” prepares for take-off. Image: US Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Jodi Martinez This article first appeared on the Climate News Network. Net Website By Tim Radford The US military is now the 47th greenhouse gas emitter. A machine powered to keep the world safer paradoxically increases the levels of climate danger. [...]
We last wrote about AIM-listed Good Energy over a year ago (8 May 2018). We said then that the company had had a challenging year in 2017. When the final results were released on 21 March 2018 they showed that gross revenue had more than held up – at £106 million it was 16.6 per [...]
Brazil’s Itaipu dam produces five times more power than the two Angra reactors. Image: By muzikantcz, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the Climate News Network.Net website by Jan Rocha The prospect of more atomic energy for Brazil, envisaged under President Bolsonaro’s nuclear plan, fails to impress many of his compatriots. SÃO PAULO, [...]
Best chances for restoring forests lie in the tropical lowlands. Image: By K8 on Unsplash This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website by Tim Radford Scientists now know where to start restoring the forests to soak up carbon and cool the planet, by planting more trees on unused land. Swiss scientists have identified an area roughly the size [...]
Impression of Dubai’s solar park with salt tower on the right. Image: Courtesy of helioscsp This article first appeared on the WWW.Climate News Network.Net website By Paul Brown Progress in China, the US and elsewhere shows an increasingly positive solar future as fuel from the sun grows cheaper and more abundant. The world’s solar future continues to [...]
Today we welcome a new writer and an old friend to Greenbarrel. Richard worked for a sister company to Oilbarrel.com which was Greenbarrel’s predecessor company that was involved in writing and publishing energy stories. Since those days (some ten years ago) Richard has carved out a distinguished career with a portfolio of projects and consultancies. [...]
Freetown in Sierra Leone: Already hot and humid. Image: By David Hond, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the Climate News Network.net website By Tim Radford Up to a third of urban dwellers could soon face extreme African city heat and humidity. Risks could at worst multiply 50-fold. An entire continent faces [...]
What humans do decides the extent of global warming. Image: By Hanny Naibaho on Unsplash This article first appeared on the Climate News Network.Net website by Tim Radford Fresh studies have again confirmed a vital fact about global warming: human activity is its cause. Science questions its own findings, which is why we should trust it. British scientists have [...]
Is there any resonance to the catchphrase? “It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.” There certainly is if you look at the path of Green & Smart Holdings, the AIM-listed renewable energy group that produces biogas from waste in Malaysia. The company had a dismal time of it in the few months leading [...]