We last wrote about Eden Research in January this year. We said that after a long, difficult period of little revenue and continued losses, the company seemed to be moving closer to commerciality. The final results for the year to 31 December 2019, released on 2 April 2019, appear to confirm that is the case. [...]
Heathrow’s expansion is now in question. Image: By J Patrick Fischer, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the Climate News Network.Net website By Paul Brown Major changes in the government’s policy on fossil fuels will be vital to tackling the UK climate emergency that Parliament has recognised. The United Kingdom has taken a potentially [...]
Turbine blades have grown ever longer to reach their 107-metre maximum today. Image: By Acroterion, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the Climate News Network. Net website by Paul Brown Rapid progress in the solar and wind industries mean they are outcompeting fossil fuels in key markets − a renewable revolution. There’s a renewable [...]
The Sizewell nuclear plant on England’s east coast: Marked for expansion? Image: By Barry Hughes, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the Climate News Network.Net website By Paul Brown Plans for two new nuclear plants in Western Europe have met more setbacks Two new nuclear plants, one in Finland and the other in France, [...]
Drax Group is betting on renewable energy. But, as the Investors Chronicle put it in a recent article, “the shift from coal giant to a clean energy company has come at a price.” We last wrote about Drax last September 2018 when we reported that in the previous month (August 2018) the company announced that [...]
Fossil fuel burning is pushing CO2 levels ever higher. Image: By Tony Webster, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the Climate News Network.Net website by Tim Radford The modern world is about to pass a temperature peak dating back for millions of years – because CO2 levels have already passed an ancient record.. LONDON, [...]
In 2017 Hurricane Maria stripped the trees of their leaves. Image: By US Fish & Wildlife Service SE Region, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on Climate News Network.Net by Tim Radford More greenhouse gases mean worse tropical winds and fiercer storms. That could mean more forest damage . . . and more greenhouse gas [...]
Cocoa pods: Where chocolate starts its journey. Image: By Karunakar Rayker from India, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the Climate News Network website by Kieran Cooke If you like chocolate you’ll love this: the same tree that provides your indulgent treat is helping to slow climate change, thanks to [...]
This is the second of two articles on SIMEC Atlantic Energy Part one of our two-parter on SIMEC Atlantic Energy concluded with summary of the state of the company in July 2018. In short, we attempted to examine whether the company’s plan to transform itself from a heavily subsidised small tidal power turbines company (MeyGen) [...]
This is the first of two articles on SIMEC Atlantis Energy a renewable energy group which is moving away from subsidy support into private sector investment The accepted conventional wisdom in the UK for the past three decades at least, has been that renewable energy companies have been infant groups that have needed subsidies and [...]