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After CSR 2010

The Comprehensive Spending Review 2010 has come and gone and the dust has settled to a degree. Whilst some of the announcements were reasonably detailed some of the content was rather general and we will have to wait and see how the cuts play out....
Posted on: 09/11/2010

Heat pumps to undergo 'tighter regulations'

I was interested to read the following article on the BBC News website www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11200063 on the 8 September which discusses the need for heat pumps to undergo 'tighter regulations'. It seems this is because there is a ge...
Posted on: 14/09/2010

We are FIT but what about RHI

 The election has come and gone; the emergency budget has come and gone; and now it seems the Green Investment Bank has come and gone although it never really arrived before going. Out of all of this it seemed there was little comfort for the r...
Posted on: 24/08/2010

Where there's muck......

While on holiday in India recently I visited an interesting renewable energy project; a small scale harnessing of methane gas from cow manure for supplying domestic cookers. This was a simple structure, like a small gas holder.  Cow manure was...
Posted on: 23/07/2010

Ashes to Ashes

Ashes to Ashes There has been nothing that has really caught my eye in the last few weeks. The budget came and went. Nobody was expecting much with the election on the horizon. Nevertheless we all get a little bit excited just in case there is somet...
Posted on: 27/05/2010

Buy a Hummer and save the planet

Coming back after a short break and then catching up with work I am applying my mind to issues of the day and something caught my eye. Saving the planet with a Hummer, is this total madness? Well maybe not entirely. The instant reaction must be th...
Posted on: 25/03/2010

It's all bad news

Oh misery, it’s been a bad couple of months for the climate change lobby with a series of happenings that have done much to undermine the evidence on the effect of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. They say things come in threes. Firstly back in...
Posted on: 12/02/2010

The New Decade

Blogging decided to take a long break over Christmas and the New Year.  This was to recharge the batteries, enjoy the festive season and so I could reflect on the achievements of COP 15 in Copenhagen and the Pre Budget Review.&nbs...
Posted on: 14/01/2010

Awards

It seems that whatever your interest there is some kind of awards scheme.  Good or bad is a personal matter but what is undeniable is that awards do get people doing things and so it is with the Future Friendly Awards now in their 3rd year. ...
Posted on: 16/11/2009

Greenhouse Gases

I went to one of the great centres of GHG emissions recently, Heathrow Airport. It was good to hear on the drive time news that the high carbon economy is thriving there.  July this year was the airport’s third busiest month on record. In anticipatio...
Posted on: 05/11/2009
 
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