Coping with wind
This article was published in Ecologist on 27 April 2010, and in the June edition of Energy World.
Texas is full of surprises. In the historic home of the oil industry, the electricity supply is going green. A landscape that for over a century has been carpeted with ‘nodding donkey’ oil wells is now sprouting wind turbines.
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Global warming: send in the tanks
First published in the Guardian, 18 June 2009.
Forget expensive high tech silver bullets like nuclear fusion and carbon capture and storage, the solution to climate change lies in the humble electric immersion heater that sits in your hot water tank under the stairs.
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Renewable supergrid by 2030
A short version of this article was published in the The Independent on Sunday, 14 June 2009
Europe could build an electricity supply based entirely on renewable energy by 2030, according to scientists making a presentation at the House of Commons this week.
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Electric avenues
First published in the The Independent on Sunday, 29 March 2009
‘The future has not been cancelled,” quipped BP chief executive Tony Hayward in a bullish presentation about the company’s prospects recently.
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Green grid
A version of this article was published in New Scientist on 12 March 2009.
Thomas Edison might have relished the irony. Just as his most famous legacy, the incandescent light bulb, heads for extinction, his other great passion, direct current, is set to boom.
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Supergrid could provide 30% of Europe’s electricity
(Podcast) A high voltage electricity grid connecting countries from the North Sea to the Bay of Biscay could provide almost a third of Europe’s power by 2030, according to the company behind the idea.
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