Posted by Becky McCray on 14th August 2008.
After years of relatively slow development, wind power seems to be really picking up in the US.
In western Oklahoma, we’ve built up from one tentative test project to an all out boom in development. A recent public meeting in Enid, Oklahoma, drew more people than they had room for. Hundreds of landowners turned out to [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 7th April 2008.
We received a survey last week which was embargoed to yesterday. “Strange”, I thought, “to have a Sunday embargo on something.” On reading the survey, Behind the Wheel II from the Energy Saving Trust, the penny dropped. It’s the start of a new tax year and the content of the survey - about cars and [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 19th November 2007.
In another life, I spend a lot of time looking at IT issues in large enterprises. This is a world of multi-million pound IT budgets and horrendous electricity bills. Some companies genuinely fear electricity shortages in the coming years, the consequences of which would be horrendous for companies large and small.
Imagine if you had no [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 18th June 2007.
A leap sideways into a different technology world this week. But it’s a world that affects us all: energy. Where do we get it from and what is the environmental cost?
It doesn’t matter whether you believe that humans are causing climate change, it just makes sense to minimise the damage to our environment simply because [...]
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