Last week the project proposal for a third runway at Heathrow in London was put on hold after a successful court challenge based on climate …
Category: Transport
Aviation futures
The aviation industry accounts for nearly one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually against a global total in excess of 40 billion tonnes, which means …
What happened to that vacation offset?
With many people in the Northern Hemisphere taking vacation at the moment, some may have clicked that button on the bookings website to offset the …
Getting to net-zero emissions in the UK
Last week the Climate Change Committee (CCC) in the UK released its much anticipated report which is recommending that the government revise its emissions goal to …
Powering remote activities
Over the past three weeks I have been on a voyage from Cape Horn to the Cape of Good Hope, specifically Ushuaia to Cape Town. …
Stock, flow and cobalt. Issues for the EV transition.
In Shell’s recently released Sky Scenario, around 1 billion electric passenger vehicles (EVs) could be on the roads as early as the 2040s. These 1 …
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Achieving the balance
The Paris Agreement calls for a “balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of the …
A solar transportation system?
While Elon Musk is waxing lyrical about the Tesla Model 3, a house with solar roof tiles and batteries both in the house and in …
The cobalt rush?
It was interesting to see the FT report recently that there may be a cobalt crunch looming, with hedge funds actually stockpiling physical cobalt. The …
Materials in a transition
In thinking about the energy transition, it is easy to look at the status quo and compare it with a clean energy future of renewables, …
