How do you wean the Dutch off fossil fuels? Well, you could always start by banning advertisements that promote them. This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork,net website By Alex Kirby Three days ago Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, “Venice of the North” (and destination of many travellers who appreciate a little something extra with [...]
serviceman undergoes treatment for heat exhaustion. Sometimes that’s going to fail. Image: By US Air Force (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website By Tim Radford In a heatwave, global warming driven by fossil fuels becomes an act of self-harm. It causes 1 in 3 heat-related deaths. [...]
Nuclear industry’s propaganda war rages on Several governments have now acknowledged how their civil and military nuclear programmes are linked. Image: By Steve Harvey on Unsplash This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website By Paul Brown With renewable energy expanding fast, the nuclear industry’s propaganda war still claims it helps to combat climate change. To maintain the assertion [...]
Xiulin Ruan, a Purdue University professor of mechanical engineering, with his lab’s sample of the whitest paint on record. Image: By Purdue University/Jared Pike This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website By Tim Radford Would you like cool homes and hot water without paying to power them? They’re already working in the laboratory. It sounds [...]
By Stewart Dalby. Towards the end of the second article, in this series I wrote that some small suppliers were obliged to cease trading because according to the energy regulators Ofgem they were “Unable to provide adequate customer service to customers”. I added that numerous legitimate and conscientious small suppliers faced a different set of [...]
By Stewart Dalby Towards the end of part one of our three article series on energy supply problems, I wrote that a recommendation had been made that customers should shop around and “switch” away from the leading energy companies to smaller, cheaper ones. This policy appeared to work for a while, in that towards the [...]
Thai Airways first class cabin: It’s the rich that fly most and do most damage to the climate. Image: By Richard Moross, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website By Paul Brown Wealthy frequent flyers who take several holidays a year should pay higher taxes each time they fly, a British charity [...]
SUVs, designed for off-road transport, can tempt road-users too. Image: By Collins Lesulie on Unsplash This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website By Alex Kirby Most UK buyers of off-road cars designed for rural use are urban motorists, worsening city congestion and air pollution. − Three-quarters of all sports utility vehicles (SUVs) sold in the UK are bought by [...]
By Stewart Dalby Last week I received a letter, dated 24 March from my energy supplier, EDF. The company said it was going to put up my bill by an extra £127.78p or 9.3 per cent in early April 2021. This means a bill amounting to £1210 per annum. I did wonder why my bill’s [...]
By Julian Singer Velocys has a solution in search of an application. Formed from the merger of Oxford Catalysts and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 2008, Velocys owns intellectual property concerned with reactors that turn gases into liquid hydrocarbons using catalysts and micro-channels. The problem has always been to find a significant market. Past [...]