Coal miners’ memorial, Greymouth, New Zealand. Image: By Bernard Spragg (public domain), via Wikimedia CommonsImage: This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website by Tim Radford In air pollution terms alone, the price of coal is huge. The true price of energy in almost any fossil form is colossal. - Does anyone think fossil fuels should be more expensive? [...]
Cutting carbon emissions: Berliners have a word for it. Image: By Etienne Girardet on Unsplash This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website By Tim Radford Global shutdown during Covid-19 has forced down carbon emissions. But no inadvertent pause can replace global resolve. Five years after a planet-wide vow to reduce carbon emissions, it happened. In 2020, the world’s [...]
Stewart Dalby On 21 July last year (2020) year we published an article which said, “Eden Research suffered a blip in its fortunes in 2019, but expects better times in the rest of 2020”. According to the Year-end trading update released on 11 February this year (2021), however, Eden’s fortunes do not appear to have [...]
By Stewart Dalby Biome Technologies is a small, usually loss-making AIM quoted company with two divisions, Biome Bioplastics and Stanelco RF Technologies. Biome Bioplastics, the company says, is a leading developer of highly functional bio-based and biodegradable plastics. Stanelco RF, the older part of the company designs, builds and services advanced radio frequencies (RF) systems [...]
The fate of people like Mihrigul Tursun, who was detained in a Chinese internment camp for Uighur Muslims, could affect the fortunes of the solar industry. Image: By US State Dept. (public domain), via Wikimedia Commonsebsiite This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website By Kieran Cooke By Despite its recent runaway success, solar power’s future [...]
EXCLUSIVE: A leading UN agency, UNESCO, is harming action on the climate crisis by partnering with natural gas exporters, critics say This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website By Mitchell Beer OTTAWA – Unesco a prominent United Nations agency, is undercutting global action on the climate emergency, analysts and campaigners warn, by forming a partnership with [...]
Creating millions of jobs in energy efficiency schemes is the fastest way to restore prosperity and cut climate heating. This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website By Paul Brown Improving energy efficiency creates far more jobs than generating it, and at the same time provides a way out of the Covid crisis by bringing [...]
By Stewart Dalby We last wrote about Ilika plc on 18 June 2020 when we commented on the AIM-listed company’s final-results for the financial year (FY) 2019/2020 which ended on 30 April 2020. At that point the company was loss-making and had a share price of 51 pence. Last week on 14 January the interim [...]
By Stewart Dalby We have got used to referring to Accsys Technologies as an Anglo-Dutch company, but with Brexit having finally been done the group now refers to itself as a ‘sole’ Dutch company. This does not matter too much for investors, however, because Accsys will continue to be listed on London’s AIM where, according [...]
by Our Chennai correspondent Image: By Indrajit Das, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website by Our Chennai correspondent The risk of damage to turbines from cyclones has cut India’s electricity output, despite a longer windy season. CHENNAI − Although India’s windy season was longer than usual in 2020, a series of [...]