March 2012
20 posts
Screw Geoengineering, What About Bioengineering To...
So here’s our problem; anthropogenic emissions are changing our climate, as we should hopefully all know and trust, and we’re accomplishing that much faster than good old nature has been used to, hence all the fuss over it. One of the most grand, and unfortunately controversial solutions forwarded by many lobbies is that of geoengineering - the artificial changing of our climate,...
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One Small Step For Solar
Solar installations by proportion across the world. www.greentechmedia.com
Some good news from SunTech and for the solar industry as a whole; it appears that the world record for PV efficiency has reached a pretty important milestone, and surpassed it. As of today, the company achieved an impressive 20.3% efficiency with its Pluto technology PV panels, taking the crown for highest rating ever....
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*Update* Should Nuclear Be Let In The Renewable... →
So it seems that the Guardian’s earlier article regarding the UK’s stance on renewable targets and it’s apparent attempts at pushing nuclear into the renewable club are misguided, if a letter from the Secretary of State is to be fully trusted, in which the whole situation laid out in the popular newspaper today was disregarded completely.
According to the letter, the UK is...
Should Nuclear Be Let In The Renewable Club?
Carrying on from my last post on the subject of nuclear energy, renewables and the state of public feelings after Fukushima, I felt that a follow-up post was necessary after reading of a potentially leaked document (seen by the Guardian), which purports to the UK government investing in a strange new direction for green energy production; the rebranding of the nuclear industry.
This document, and...
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Is Fission Falling out Of Favour?
This coming Sunday represents an important date in the nuclear industry, and human history, as a year would have passed since the Tohoku earthquake and ensuing Fukushima Reactor disaster plagued Japan and the wider world. Since then, the power of fission has rapidly fallen out favour, and multiple economically-strong nations have opted to drop construction altogether and shut off nuclear, Germany...
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We Could All Do With A Bit More Sun
I’ve decided to go straight into the second blog of my life with an image I saw floating around twitter a few days back, which struck me as something well worth a further look into (got to love Read It Later).
Ecomagination - http://twitpic.com/8r3njw
The above image is a simple map demonstrating how much land surface would be required to power the entire globe purely through the wonder of...
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Time To Take A New Angle On 'Business As Usual'
Well I finally did it, I’ve actually worked up the effort, and (some very limited) photoshopping skills and kicked off a blog, on what is one of my only strong passions in life - a clean, sustainable future for us humans, in which we can not only begin enjoying life without ruining our next-gen prospects or this planet, but progress down a path which is an ever-growing necessity, and surely...
