Wind. Great stuff. It blows around here and there (especially around the British Isles) and just waits for someone to come along and make electricity out of it. Brilliant.
But in the recent past we haven’t really been that bothered. Hans-Josef Fell (a German MP who was a driving force behind Germany’s Renewable Energy Sources Law) [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Support your local wind turbine
Posted in Climate Change, EU, Energy, Renewables, tagged Climate Change, Energy, EU, Renewables, Wind power, Wind turbine on 30 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Biofuels are not the answer
Posted in Climate Change, EU, Energy, biofuels, tagged biofuels, Carbon dioxide, Climate Change, EU, Global Warming on 23 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Recently the Environmental Audit Committee group of MPs, led by the Conservative MP Tim Yeo, produced their report ‘Are Biofuels Sustainable?’ in which they tried to find out the answer to the title (1). Their conclusion? That there should be a moratorium on biofuels until “technology improves, robust mechanisms to prevent damaging land use change [...]
Climate Change and the Second World War
Posted in Climate Change, War, tagged Carbon dioxide, Climate Change, Gordon Brown, War on 2 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The challenge of overcoming climate change has been likened to the challenge of the second world war by Gordon Brown(1), or war more generally by others(2). It is easy to see why this comparison has been used. Everyone in the country knows what a huge challenge the Second World War was, and the sacrifices that [...]
