Future Heating install Genersys solar at Kings College Hospital

Hospitals are often a series of sprawling buildings, built at different times in different designs to serve different purposes. Like many critical operations they have to plan so as to ensure that all the things that they need are there; one thing hospitals need in abundance is energy.

Renewable Energy – Pay As You Save

Mr Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change has claimed that the United Kingdom has taken the lead in the world by instituting a pilot study under which 500 homes are taking trials under a “Pay As You Save” programme, which is seeing whether renewable energy products can be installed under a [...]

Coal kills

I have always admired those who have risked their lives and health to work in coal mines. I expect that they never did so out of choice but out of necessity. Working in mines is very dangerous and working with coal is very dangerous. There are dangers underground, dangers in the pollution and emissions of [...]

Barriers to installing micro generation

It has taken ten years of talking big about climate protection for the United Kingdom Government to turn its attention to removing the barriers that impede environmental and climate protection. These barriers are often imposed by the Government so correcting them is well within the gift of the authorities; when I explain the Government’s proposals [...]

Thoughts for Copenhagen

Around fifty years ago energy was relatively expensive and formed a large part of most people’s budgets. Then in the United Kingdom there were few homes with central heating and most homes had one light bulb for each room. Water was generally heated by an electric immersion heater (usually made of copper and un-insulated) and [...]

The Energy Bill

The United Kingdom Government has published its programme of legislation for this the last Parliament before A General Election. Many doubt whether any of the proposals will be enacted in law before Parliament is dissolved. Many of the proposals are simply window dressing but among the more useful pieces of legislation, if passed, will be [...]

DECC misses the point on climate change

Mechanical Engineers are probably the most important engineers; civil engineers construct great and important building works, electrical engineers create things that work with electricity and in electronics but mechanical engineers concern themselves with the design and manufacturing of things, drawing upon the laws of physics and mechanics. They number in their ranks Archimedes, Ma Jun, [...]

Politicians need courage to deal with climate change

It is a bit like torturing yourself, listening to a politician talk about climate change. I inflicted some self torture when I watched and listened to Ed Miliband, the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change on Sunday morning.

Renewable energy: a prize for the Minister who actually answers questions

Last week in Parliament the Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change was asked how the £5.8 billion that the Government would spend on renewable energy over the three years ended April 2011 was broken down. 
It was a good question, asked by Greg Clark for two reasons;

Energy and Emissions Policy of the Conservative Party – the missing bits

If the Conservative Party form the next government of the United Kingdom what will be their specific environmental and climate change policies? So far the Conservatives have not published a cohesive strategy, neither have they provided details on their likely energy policy, and energy policy will be an essential part of their climate protection ideas. [...]