Posted 1 week ago

I submitted this as a letter to Chemistry World... maybe they will publish it next month. Anyway, it seems salient to the topic of this blog and I have raised this subject previously. If the industry

Posted 1 week ago

It was reported this morning in the Independent newspaper that massive amounts of methane are bubbling up from the Arctic depths as sub-sea permafrost in sediments melts. The essential principle is me

Posted 2 weeks ago

Following my last posting, I have been thinking further about biochar and the likelihood of it being used as a long-term form in which to store carbon captured from the atmosphere by photosynthesising

Posted 3 weeks ago

I have just attended the International Biochar conference in Newcastle (http://www.biochar-international.org/ibi2008conference.html). Newcastle is a lovely city with a real buzz to it and very friendl

Posted 4 weeks ago

We were thinking about putting solar-panels on the south-facing roof our our home-extension some years ago, but determined it would take about 20 years to pay-off the cost in terms of the electricity-

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Posted 4 weeks ago

The term credit crunch is used loosely to describe an economic downturn, that might become a full-blown recession, and which indeed is linked in part to overgenerous lending of money to people who c

Posted 4 weeks ago

Blogger Yorkshireminer said... The trouble is with alternative tech is that there is such a long lead in time. And we don't have the time we have left it too late. What gets up my nose is that the

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Posted 5 weeks ago

There are some interesting thoughts here, beginning with Power Towers . This sounds like a descendent of one of Tesla's inventions? I'll do a final round-up of what was exactly concluded by both side

Posted 5 weeks ago

Here are a few of the latest remarks on the above, which might be of interest:Federal Farmer wrote:August 28, 2008 08:52 Econoguy and Chris Rhodes I think have found common ground. Just looking around