Oil prices rise as the economy falls

The price of oil still rising but the economy of the world is slowing down. This at first sight seems like a paradox. If the world’s economy slows down you would expect less energy to be used and therefore the price of oil should fall. Today oil stands at around $120 a barrel – it [...]

Biofuels - we drive and the world starves

 
Sometimes you can only see a picture clearly if you step back from it, so you can see the whole canvas. So it is with energy. Without any doubt we are heading for an energy crisis. The oil will probably peak – that is to say reach its maximum production in ten years time. Oil [...]

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 [...]

Eco towns and the environment - look at the big picture

The Government wants to build ten so called carbon neutral eco towns containing a total of 240,000 carbon neutral eco homes. Of course, the Government have redefined the meaning of carbon neutral and if they stick to their present definition these so called carbon neutral dwellings will end up emitting as much carbon dioxide as [...]

Electric cars which you can use for electricity storage

Sometimes you need vision to identify a solution to a problem and the hardest thing is to think laterally to solve the problem. Storing electricity is hard to do, especially in large quantities. In the home you store heat in your radiators and in your hot water cylinders and tanks but you do not usually [...]

Tata Nano and the new car owning population in Asia

India’s population is not only growing but prospering. The Indian economy is booming, and jobs are better paid than they ever where, and there are better paid jobs than ever. In these circumstances it is not surprising that more Indians can afford cars and that one Indian car manufacturer, Tata Motors, will be introducing a very [...]

Underground fares- no free ride for London

I find it very hard to understand how we run public transport in Britain. Public transport is very important. It is almost always better (in terms of producing less carbon) to take a train or a bus than it is to take a car, so you would expect that public transport services would operate at [...]