Aerial maps: A way to ID heat loss, solar potential

Like the time-lapse photographs that climate-change-watchers have taken of melting ice caps and retreating glaciers, the images of nighttime Britain snapped by aerial mapping company Bluesky have a disturbing beauty. That's because the vivid hues and bright contrasts of colour aren't meaningless, decorative splashes but indicators of how much energy the UK is wasting through heat…

ByThe Global ViewFebruary 28, 20110Comments

Energy

Report: Renewable heat energy key to UK’s energy future

Peak oil might have been on the minds of business leaders who met in a behind-closed-doors summit with Britain's energy secretary this week, but there's another critical commodity that the UK should be paying attention to, according to a new paper: heat. Published as England bids farewell to its coldest winter in over 30 years, the…

ByThe Global ViewMarch 23, 20101Comment

Smart Cities

GM recycles exhaust into power

Researchers must be a lot like milk: if you leave them alone for long enough, all sorts of crazy stuff develops. Although in milk's case, most of it would give you severe digestive wrongness, scientists' work can often make you feel better about things. According to those clever folk over at Associated Press, those clever folk…

ByThe Global ViewAugust 12, 20081Comment

Smart Cities

1TW of energy stored in Germany’s exhaust pipes

On cold winter's days as a youth, Greenbang would stand behind the exhaust pipe of the family car, warming her legs on the hot gas as her dad tried to coax the old banger into a few more miles of life. In retrospect, it's easy to see Greenbang as a pioneer of scientific investigation, with her…

ByThe Global ViewJune 6, 20080Comments

Energy

SSE gets spendy with £15 million pump energy buy

Greenbang reckons that the CEO of Scottish Southern and Energy must be lighting a cigar in his office and possibly treating himself to an extra spin in his wheely chair - that's how good a day it must be chez SSE, after the company scored an government approval for a wind farm in the north…

ByThe Global ViewApril 11, 20080Comments

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Aerial maps: A way to ID heat loss, solar potential

Report: Renewable heat energy key to UK’s energy future

GM recycles exhaust into power

1TW of energy stored in Germany’s exhaust pipes

SSE gets spendy with £15 million pump energy buy

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