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Hysterical nonsense from Christopher Booker in the Daily Mail

June 26, 2008 by dale

Filed under: Energy

We published this on the Ecotricity website today, but in light of the fact that the Daily Mail didn’t publish my response to this collection of misinformation by Christopher Booker in a timely fashion - I thought I would reconstruct my comments here, where the editorial policy is slightly more balanced. Note to Christopher - feel free to comment here! ;-) Continue reading “Hysterical nonsense from Christopher Booker in the Daily Mail”

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A week in the life of….

June 26, 2008 by dale

Filed under: Energy, Transport

It’s been an interesting week in the world of renewable. As mentioned yesterday, the G published leaked details of the Government ‘Renewable Energy Strategy:

“Revealed: UK’s blueprint for a green revolution”

So - we may actually be entering into a second industrial revolution Continue reading “A week in the life of….”

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Renewable Energy Strategy - actions speak louder than words!

June 25, 2008 by dale

Filed under: Energy

The Government’s ‘Renewable Energy Strategy’ comes out tomorrow. Some details leaked in the G this weekend. “Revealed: UK’s blueprint for a green revolution”

The UK have had big plans before, though not this big - what we’ve always been missing is the guts to make them happen, to drive the change needed. That’s why we’ve missed targets before and why we’ll miss them again. Talk is one thing (and we’ve had plenty of it, low carbon economy this, climate change biggest threat that……. and so on) what we need is action. Continue reading “Renewable Energy Strategy - actions speak louder than words!”

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Petrol Stations of the future – swap shop or not?

June 10, 2008 by dale

Filed under: Transport

Thanks to Simon for your comments on Petrol Stations of the Future (and to Will and to Chris also). I started writing responses, but again this is quite a big topic so have turned it into a new post instead (for those who have just joined the thread - you can read the first post in the transport series here, the second which has a little video is here, the third here and the fourth here).

Simon - you make a couple of good points there. The idea of sitting around for 20 minutes while your car charges will be a bit of a challenge for some people, Continue reading “Petrol Stations of the future – swap shop or not?”

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Zero Carbonista

Dale Vince This blog is about answers to the big questions - how will we keep the lights on, what kind of cars will we drive (will we drive?) and how will we feed ourselves - in a post oil world, and a world where we can't afford to keep burning things and throwing things away. Energy, Transport and Food are the three big issues.

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