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 [...]
By Stewart Dalby To paraphrase the Queen who in 1992 described that year as her “annus horribilis”, we can say that without fear of contradiction 2020 has been nine months or so of unremitting horrors unprecedented in the lifetimes of most of us. By mid-December over 70,000 people, young and old, had died in England [...]
By Stewart Dalby On 15 September this year (2020) the shareholders in the green energy supplier Good Energy Group PLC received something of a shock. The AIM-listed, high-profile company had been comfortably profitable for years. On this September day, however, the company’s report for the half year that ended on 30 June 2020 told shareholders [...]
Western Europe cools on plans for nuclear power Under construction: Intake Tunnel 1 of Hinkley Point C’s cooling water system. Image: EDF ,This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website by Paul Brown As more reactors face closure, governments in Europe may prefer renewable energy to replace nuclear power. News that two more reactors in the United [...]