This article first appeared on Climate News Network.net by Alex Kirby Growing enough greenery to provide cleaner fuel and slow climate change will need a biofuel land grab: a 10 to 30-fold rise in land devoted to green crops. LONDON, 21 November, 2018 − Replacing fossil fuels with alternatives derived from some natural sources may [...]
Maybe it was because Green & Smart had such a dismal time of it around 16 August 2018 that the company felt obliged to make an upbeat statement soon afterwards – at the AGM on 25 October – saying everything was in order and that the company was in a stronger position than hitherto. The [...]
Forests store carbon – but how effectively is unclear. Image by Manuel Meurisse on Unsplash This article first appeared in Climate News Network by Tim Radford How forest carbon storage affects climate change is a vital part of scientists’ calculations. But fresh uncertainties keep on sprouting. LONDON, 6 November, 2018 – Two new studies have just made one of the [...]
Inspired Energy Plc is a UK and Irish energy broker based in Kirkham, Lancashire in the north of England. It offers services to commercial, industrial and government organisations to handle their electricity and gas requirements. The services fall into two groups: energy procurement, concerned with negotiating electricity and gas contracts, and bureau services, involved with [...]
Norway’s Froan Island – in urgent need of reliable energy. Image: By Carl Dons/NTNU UB, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared in Climate News Network.Net By Paul Brown Hydrogen power and renewable energy offer hope to islanders and others in remote communities who now have to rely on fossil fuels. Thanks to a project combining [...]
Weakened hurricanes may be wind farm bonus Offshore wind farms can help to tame hurricanes. Image: By Oliver Mann on Unsplash This article first appeared in Climate News Network.Net By Alex Kirby US scientists have identified yet another wonder of that icon of renewable energy, the offshore wind farm: they may result in weakened hurricanes. Turbines in the right [...]
Eden Research describes itself as a company that provides breakthrough biopesticides and natural microencapsulation technologies to the global agrochemicals, animal health and consumer products industries. The company has developed its first agrochemical product that was called 3AEY (now known as Mevalone) which is a fungicide which targets botrytis, a mould that causes diseases in grapes. [...]
This article first appeared in Climate News Network.Net A British nuclear-armed submarine: Sustained by the civilian industry. Image: By bodgerbrooks, via Wikimedia Commons By Paul Brown Officially the UK nuclear industry is going ahead with building a new generation of power stations. But it can’t find anyone to pay for them. The future of the UK [...]
When writing about ASX-listed Carnegie Clean Energy last February we reported that: “Just over a year ago at an AGM on 2 December 2016, Carnegie Wave Power (CWP) shareholders voted overwhelmingly to change the company name to Carnegie Clean Energy (CCE) in recognition of Carnegie’s broadening focus on clean energy.” What we didn’t say was [...]
Predictably down-beat results from Ocean Power Technology (OPT) for the first quarter fiscal 2019 nonetheless contain encouraging reports of several new contracts. OPT is an American wave energy company which started commercial operations in 1994. It was once quoted on London’s |AIM, but is now listed on Nasdaq. It says it aims to change the [...]