Climate change: technical solutions?
Or lifestyle changes? . There is a very innovative research group, funded by the UK government, looking at ways to achieve ‘net zero carbon emissions’:… Read More »Climate change: technical solutions?
Our on-line carbon footprint
‘The cloud’ is actually a vast network of energy-guzzling data centres. . A correspondent has been doing some research on a large part of our… Read More »Our on-line carbon footprint
‘British weather-proof’ solar panels
Liquid technology could be used to coat existing structures to provide unobtrusive electricity. . The UK press has been very much taken by a new… Read More »‘British weather-proof’ solar panels
Free energy
Of perpetual motion machines and quantum physics . As Wikipedia would remind us: A perpetual motion machine is a hypothetical machine that can do work indefinitely without… Read More »Free energy
Generating water from air
‘the world’s first and only hydropanel’ . We take water very much for granted, as discussed on Laurie Taylor’s Thinking Allowed on Radio 4 today:… Read More »Generating water from air
Turning e-waste into opportunities
The Telegraph points out that the huge amount of e-waste we create can actually be recycled and earn a bit of money: . Got a… Read More »Turning e-waste into opportunities