Why I agree with Nick
So that’s it. Tomorrow we troop to the polling stations with almost no discussion of the most critical issue: energy. (more…)...
The end of the road
It was never much to look at, but I was sorry to see it go. On the mean streets of Hampstead, my 13 year old Peugeot 406 diesel estate (42mpg) has reached the end of the road. (more…)...
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. (more…)...
Peak at the polls
Peak oil has come a long way in the last few years: from bug-eyed millennial cult to mainstream consensus, embracing academia, much of the oil industry, and now the US military. There’s a growing consensus global oil production will peak this side of 2020, with many forecasts clustered around the middle the decade and some well within the next parliament. Strange then that even now the mainstream parties’ manifestos contain not a single word on the subject. (more…)...
How long before the lights go out?
This article was first published in the Telegraph on 4 February 2010.
Bad news for energy consumers continues to come thick and fast. Bills have more than doubled in the last six years, and could rise a further 25% in the next decade according to a wide-ranging report published yesterday by Ofgem. But even more worrying was the watchdog’s analysis of Britain’s energy security – or lack of it. (more…)...