Zerocarbonista

Micro Generation – The Emperor’s New Clothes?

Filed under: Renewables — dale July 21, 2008 @ 8:42 am

It’s one of those things nobody ever speaks out against. But does micro generation have real potential to help us diversify our energy supplies and fight climate change, or is it more like the Emperors new clothes, and nobody wants to be the first to admit it’s a hoax? (more…)

More thoughts on ‘garages’ of the future – they won’t exist!

Filed under: Transport — dale July 3, 2008 @ 1:07 pm

Our vision of the future of petrol stationsHere’s our revised, mocked up vision of ‘the petrol station of the future’.

We’ve been discussing the charging of electric cars in previous posts and I’d suggested a vision of rows of charging posts and it taking 20 minutes or so to fill your car up while you surfed the net or otherwise chilled out. In a nutshell. (more…)