Mr Brown’s own yardstick and climate change

Mr Gordon Brown’s recent speech was about climate change and as you would expect he tried to put a very positive emphasis on the government’s climate change policy. It is worth looking at the speech in detail so that we can fully measure the government’s climate change policy against a proper yardstick. I shall give [...]

Why should anyone buy a solar system? The Value Propositions

Why should anyone buy a solar system?
For most people this is the critical question that the solar thermal industry needs to answer. We have the product, we have the technology, but why should anyone part with their hard earned cash – for a solar heating or a solar water heating system?A good solar system costs [...]

Terminal 5, snow and solar systems

At one time flying was rare and glamorous. Now it is a boring chore that you have to undertake with great guilt about the carbon emissions that flying creates assuaging the guilt by remembering that the vapour trials of aircraft diffuse light, probably slowing down the rate of global warming.
 
I went to the new Terminal [...]

Investment turmoil and solar systems - the true return on capital

The financial markets are in turmoil. Some banks are going through difficult times, as recent happenings at the Northern Rock and Bear Sterns demonstrate. Some analysts fear that the worse is yet to come as US dollar rates fall and interest rates throughout the world are turning down, producing lower returns on investment.
If you [...]

Solar Planning Laws Change

I have been handing out plenty of environmental brickbats to Government Ministers so it is really pleasant to award an environmental bouquet to Caroline Flint, who is the Planning Minister and another to Malcolm Wicks, who is the Energy Minister.
They have instituted changes to the planning rules which will make planning permission for home solar [...]

How to heat your home with solar panels

Solar thermal technology is still under deployed in the United Kingdom. We think of solar panels as solar water heating devices. They are, of course, but in most European countries solar thermal panels are increasing being used to provide water and space heat, rather than just heated water. 
I have decided to write this article because [...]

Green Taxes, reports gathering dust, and polluters that should pay

I decided in October last year to “blog” about the environment and have posted articles almost every day since then. I called this “Ideas for the Environment” because ideas about improving life sometimes turn into real improvements and without the ideas there will be no improvements. 

Hospital car parking and climate change - a national Health service disgrace

Climate change, almost unreported eight years ago when I established Genersys is now a subject that has become for many a marketing opportunity and for others an excuse for bad behaviour, shameful policies and practices. 
I suppose it started with BP, who was initially very active in photovoltaic cells. BP’s core business is the extraction of [...]

An extra day in the leap year - use it to help or harm the environment?

Today is the 29th February a date that is on the calendar every four years (or less frequently in some centuries). Depending on how you do the maths (whether you are paid on an hourly basis, or weekly basis or a monthly basis or a yearly basis), employers might get from the day an extra [...]

Genersys Mexico on youtube!

Ola! 
Our subsidiary, Genersys Mexico, are launching a series of youtube videos where they explain our solar systems to the Mexican public. The first two now out there. www.youtube.com/genersyssolar