Once you get over the fact that not even tinted windows, a subwoofer, and Snoop Dogg riding shotgun would make the Maranello IV electric car ‘cool’, you can begin to think about driving and car ownership in a whole new way.
It's electrifying... Mark Anslow | 17th May 2007 News Electric Car Cars Elettrica Maranello Future Vehicles James Tucker Transport Green Transport Cars Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate Change …
There is much talk of the possibility of a future ‘hydrogen economy’, which will power all our vehicles and homes. It is important to remember that hydrogen is not an energy source; it is an energy carrier. To obtain hydrogen it must be split from either natural gas or water molecules. The former, most widely used, method not only requires energy but also gives off carbon dioxide (CO2) in the process. Hydrogen produced in this way requires more energy to make than will eventually be returned when it is used. It makes more sense from a climate perspective to burn the natural gas itself than to convert and re-convert it to hydrogen in this way.
… News Hydrogen Energy Carbon Dioxide Emissions Electricity Renewable Hydrogen Carbon Dioxide … it can be powered by renewable sources of electricity such as wind turbines or solar … here, though, it makes more sense to use the electricity straight from the wind turbine …
Each year, UK livestock produce some 60 million tonnes of collectable faeces. If left to run into water-courses or even spread on fields, this waste can lead to the same problems associated with excessive fertiliser use – algal blooms and aquatic life starved of oxygen.
… Energy Carbon Dioxide Biodigesters Methane Electricity Microbes Biomass Carbon Dioxide … enough gas to generate 186 kWh a day of electricity and 138 kWh a day of heat energy. This is sufficient to provide steady electricity for 20 homes, or heat for six. If …
The potential for the use of tidal power in the UK is enormous, amounting to, at the very least, 20 per cent of our electricity needs.
… 2007 News Tidal Power Energy UK Estuary Water Electricity Lagoon Tidal Stream Tidal Carbon … to, at the very least, 20 per cent of our electricity needs. The UK’s largest proposed … can also help match the availability of electricity with demand. When consumers are …
Every year, each square metre of the UK receives between 900 and 1200 kWh of solar radiation. Capturing just some of this energy could make a significant contribution to fulfilling our energy requirements.
… 2007 News Csp Solar Power Energy Sun Turbines Electricity Solar Photovolataic Panels Solar … Solar photovoltaic panels, which generate electricity, are currently dogged by high … water, driving steam turbines and producing electricity. Estimates suggest that covering …
The UK has been described as the ‘Saudi Arabia’ of wind, with some 50 TWh of onshore and at least 450 TWh of offshore power available every year, well in excess of our current electricity demand.
… every year, well in excess of our current electricity demand. But wind has recently … of time for which wind turbines generate electricity, leading to the popular myth that …
We are all aware that the weather is never quite the same from one year to the next. That is all part of the natural variability of climate. It is the task of climatologists to tease out any change to climate, such as global warming, from all that variability.
… use of coal-fired power stations. Together, electricity and heat production constitute the … power stations supply most of the world’s electricity (34 per cent). Coal has the … coasts alone could supply our current electricity needs three times over. To find …
As climate change speeds up, the question of how to adapt our homes to hotter temperatures is becoming increasingly important. Now, a pioneering project on the island of Tenerife has been set up to address those concerns. Paul Miles reports
… any type of fossil fuel powered heating or electricity. Introducing the bioclimactic … not using fossil fuel for heating, cooling or electricity] were not very advanced. Even in … or four bedrooms. All have solar panels for electricity and hot water and are situated …
The next Chernobyl scale nuclear disaster could happen in Chernobyl as the Ukraine conflict intensifies.
… use of pre-deployed radiological weapons for electricity generation before nuclear-powered … reactors supply 20.6 percent of the country's electricity. Ukraine's 15 power reactors … sites generate 51.2 percent of the country's electricity. The risk of an inadvertent attack …
Future nuclear power plants, which are to be given the green light in the Government’s Energy White Paper later this week, will be forced to reduce their output as temperatures rise as a result of climate change, the International Herald Tribune has reported.
… Nuclear Climate Change Carbon Dioxide Power Electricity Water Nuclear Campaigns Power … have to be shut down at the very time when electricity is in highest demand. ‘We're going …
Greenpeace has published an independent report demonstrating that support for nuclear power as a way of tackling climate change would be an economic disaster.
… price, guaranteeing a fixed rate for their electricity no matter what happened to the … and worthwhile way to use taxpayers' and electricity consumers' money,' the report …
Even among green campaigners, nuclear energy is quietly gaining ground as a potential solution to the impending energy crisis. However several issues – particularly those of raw materials, cost and waste – remain unaddressed within the mainstream of opinion.
… the form of fossil fuels than it generates as electricity. Their work demonstrates that … to supply just 16 per cent of world electricity demand from nuclear power will …
The recent U-turn by of some of the UK's leading environmentalists - and one-time nuclear energy opponents - on the issue of nuclear energy, has caused vigourous debate in the media. Their reasoning is that we simply don't have the capacity to produce enough renewable energy to meet our needs. But as this comprehensive Ecologist report from 2007 shows the UK is really a renewable energy powerhouse.
… the technology first materialised, promising electricity too cheap to meter. Meanwhile, the … would be supplying 20 per cent of the world’s electricity supply by 2020. This reflects the … renewables account for around 1.5 per cent of electricity supply in the UK and admits we …
Think nuclear power and you probably thing of small amounts of highly radioactive material, safely encased in vast concrete bunkers, generating an endless and constant supply of clean electricity. Yes it's expensive and clearly there is a problem with nuclear waste, but if it is the answer to climate change then why not?
… an endless and constant supply of clean electricity. Yes it's expensive and clearly …
Reports from Downing Street officials that US President George Bush was to use next week’s State of the Union address to announce a successor to the Kyoto protocols have been denied by Tony Snow, a Senior White House spokesman.
… to make high carbon industries such as electricity providers cut greenhouse emissions …
Clean Coal Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the technology of stripping carbon dioxide from the exhaust gases of fossil fuels and then burying it as a liquid underground.
… thing in common: none of them are generating electricity. The technology which is needed to …
Ahead of the latest UN climate conference, Tom Levitt asks if its time we let go of the holy grail of targets and looked at alternatives such as 'carbon clubs'?
… emissions. The more difficult sector would be electricity generation. All new coal-fired …
It may seem odd timing that many of us are heading to the nation's capital early next month for a major act of civil disobedience at a coal-fired power plant, the first big protest of its kind against global warming in America.
… up against. Coal provides 50 percent of our electricity. That juice comes from hundreds of …