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On Grid Parity 22 Aug 2013 | 01:13 pm
Robert Wilson (@CountCarbon), in a comment on my last blog, raises the issue of grid parity, asking what it is in reality. It's a good question. In essence, the idea is very simple. It's when new form...
More Expensive Than What? 16 Aug 2013 | 02:56 am
We keep hearing that low-carbon energy is more expensive. It's a pretty consistent meme pedalled by the right-wing media on both sides of the Atlantic. The further right the media, the more ruinous th...
Nuclear 2.0 Review 16 Jul 2013 | 10:09 pm
The nuclear renaissance is a topic which continues to fascinate and one of the key figures in bigging it up is Mark Lynas, who is now better known for his pro-GMO conversion speech which received a lo...
Obama's climate speech for beginners 27 Jun 2013 | 01:11 pm
The amazing thing about this speech was that it was made at all. It lasted for nearly 40 minutes, consisting of 6,000 words. The transcript is here. Arguably, it's four years too late, but maybe it's ...
Every chart tells a story... 24 Jun 2013 | 02:18 pm
Ben Adam-Smith (@BenAdamSmith) alerted me to this chart which he stumbled upon whilst researching the vexed issue of density. Every good chart is designed to tell a story (and back it up with facts an...
The strange case of the missing Building Reg 13 Jun 2013 | 01:03 pm
I can distinctly remember sitting in the audience at Ecobuild this year (March 5 - 7) listening to Don Foster, whose is a DCLG minister (official title Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Depar...
Myles Allen and the Mail on Sunday 30 May 2013 | 11:13 am
Good piece here by Joe Romm in response to the Mail on Sunday's latest tirade against climate change policy. It raises some interesting points. Myles Allen who wrote this piece in the MoS is a respec...
Myles Allen and the Mail on Sunday 30 May 2013 | 11:13 am
Good piece here by Joe Romm in response to the Mail on Sunday's latest tirade against climate change policy. It raises some interesting points. Myles Allen who wrote this piece in the MoS is a respec...
Should we engineer the climate? 14 May 2013 | 10:05 pm
Just been to a fascinating talk given by @hughhunt, an Australian academic based in Cambridge, about geo-engineering. Or climate engineering as he prefers to call it, because everyone thinks that geo-...
Should we engineer the climate? 14 May 2013 | 10:05 pm
Just been to a fascinating talk given by @hughhunt, an Australian academic based in Cambridge, about geo-engineering. Or climate engineering as he prefers to call it, because everyone thinks that geo-...
