Comments on: About the blog http://zerocarbonista.com Life post oil and post carbon Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:48:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Philip Pearson http://zerocarbonista.com/about-the-blog/#comment-493 Philip Pearson Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:34:47 +0000 http://zerocarbonista.com/about-the-blog/#comment-493 Like some of your other commentators, I'd be very interested in investing in an ecotricity wind turbine, as I live in central London, with neither the wind speed available in my area nor option to capture solar energy. Is ecotricity up for this kind of project? Like some of your other commentators, I’d be very interested in investing in an ecotricity wind turbine, as I live in central London, with neither the wind speed available in my area nor option to capture solar energy. Is ecotricity up for this kind of project?

]]> By: Kamil Pachalko http://zerocarbonista.com/about-the-blog/#comment-397 Kamil Pachalko Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:19:27 +0000 http://zerocarbonista.com/about-the-blog/#comment-397 I just like wind:) and I love kites http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2016 I just like wind:) and I love kites

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2016

]]> By: dale http://zerocarbonista.com/about-the-blog/#comment-362 dale Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:19:17 +0000 http://zerocarbonista.com/about-the-blog/#comment-362 @ Pat - Thanks very much for your support Pat. @ Pat - Thanks very much for your support Pat.

]]> By: Pat http://zerocarbonista.com/about-the-blog/#comment-355 Pat Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:20:25 +0000 http://zerocarbonista.com/about-the-blog/#comment-355 I have today emailed everyone in my address book with the link to your webpage. If all your users could be asked to do the same it will help to spreead the word about - wind. Keep up the good work! I have today emailed everyone in my address book with the link to your webpage. If all your users could be asked to do the same it will help to spreead the word about - wind.

Keep up the good work!

]]> By: dale http://zerocarbonista.com/about-the-blog/#comment-336 dale Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:09:31 +0000 http://zerocarbonista.com/about-the-blog/#comment-336 Hi Kamil, yes definitely we'll be looking to get involved in tide and wave power as it approaches a commercial state - it's early R&D right now. In our opinion Wave and Tidal power have a lot of potential, certainly the UK has plenty of both - the key though will be achieving a competitive cost per unit, and this requires efficient reliable machines. This will take time. Cheers. Hi Kamil, yes definitely we’ll be looking to get involved in tide and wave power as it approaches a commercial state - it’s early R&D right now. In our opinion Wave and Tidal power have a lot of potential, certainly the UK has plenty of both - the key though will be achieving a competitive cost per unit, and this requires efficient reliable machines. This will take time. Cheers.

]]> By: Kamil Pachalko http://zerocarbonista.com/about-the-blog/#comment-320 Kamil Pachalko Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:52:46 +0000 http://zerocarbonista.com/about-the-blog/#comment-320 Hi, great website, blog and all praise to what Ecotricity is doing to get us off the Oil Addiction. In my locality there is a company which is trailing tidal wave electricity generation. I didn't approach them yet but our group- Transition Town Westcliff - would like to work with them closer in the future. http://www.tridentenergy.co.uk/sea_trials/ What I wanted to know is Ecotricity going to invest in this kind of ventures if the cost of generating electricity from tidal wave matches the one from wind farms? And asking you as the expert on renewables does tidal wave have future? Hi, great website, blog and all praise to what Ecotricity is doing to get us off the Oil Addiction.

In my locality there is a company which is trailing tidal wave electricity generation. I didn’t approach them yet but our group- Transition Town Westcliff - would like to work with them closer in the future.

http://www.tridentenergy.co.uk/sea_trials/

What I wanted to know is Ecotricity going to invest in this kind of ventures if the cost of generating electricity from tidal wave matches the one from wind farms?

And asking you as the expert on renewables does tidal wave have future?

]]> By: paul http://zerocarbonista.com/about-the-blog/#comment-314 paul Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:54:30 +0000 http://zerocarbonista.com/about-the-blog/#comment-314 Well - that was interesting... I hope the blog is now working again for you all (and that it stays that way!). There may be teething problems - do let me know if you spot anything and I will do my best to put it right. Please carry on as normal... apart from the hacker :) Well - that was interesting…

I hope the blog is now working again for you all (and that it stays that way!).

There may be teething problems - do let me know if you spot anything and I will do my best to put it right.

Please carry on as normal… apart from the hacker :)

]]> By: dale http://zerocarbonista.com/about-the-blog/#comment-244 dale Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:53:52 +0000 http://zerocarbonista.com/about-the-blog/#comment-244 @ Darkshine – Hi Darkshine, thanks for your post and support. We’d like to set up in the US someday not too far away, there’s much that could be done there and we think there’s something we could bring to the party. So maybe coming to a state near you one day soon. Cheers. @ Darkshine – Hi Darkshine, thanks for your post and support. We’d like to set up in the US someday not too far away, there’s much that could be done there and we think there’s something we could bring to the party. So maybe coming to a state near you one day soon. Cheers.

]]> By: Darkshine http://zerocarbonista.com/about-the-blog/#comment-215 Darkshine Thu, 29 May 2008 07:34:54 +0000 http://zerocarbonista.com/about-the-blog/#comment-215 I like what you and your company is doing. I like the ideas behind it, and the drive is not for profits. Take care of your country first. Then please, please, please come over to the U.S., set up shop in the Midwest, (Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma, preferably Nebraska though.) where there is basically a constant wind tunnel, and get us off the expensive grids powered by gas and coal, hundreds of miles away. There is plenty of farmland around where I am, and since the farmers and the rest of Nebraska got screwed over in the corn/ethanol plant and fuel deal, I am sure the kickbacks you and your company offer would be welcome with open arms after some education about wind. Sorry, I don't mean to sound like a desperate nut job, but I am sick of paying high prices for things that I shouldn't have to, because that is the way it has been for the last 100 years or more, and I don't have the resources to do but small green innovations very locally. Thanks, and I have your blog bookmarked. I like what you and your company is doing. I like the ideas behind it, and the drive is not for profits. Take care of your country first. Then please, please, please come over to the U.S., set up shop in the Midwest, (Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma, preferably Nebraska though.) where there is basically a constant wind tunnel, and get us off the expensive grids powered by gas and coal, hundreds of miles away.

There is plenty of farmland around where I am, and since the farmers and the rest of Nebraska got screwed over in the corn/ethanol plant and fuel deal, I am sure the kickbacks you and your company offer would be welcome with open arms after some education about wind.

Sorry, I don’t mean to sound like a desperate nut job, but I am sick of paying high prices for things that I shouldn’t have to, because that is the way it has been for the last 100 years or more, and I don’t have the resources to do but small green innovations very locally.

Thanks, and I have your blog bookmarked.

]]> By: dale http://zerocarbonista.com/about-the-blog/#comment-94 dale Tue, 06 May 2008 08:48:07 +0000 http://zerocarbonista.com/about-the-blog/#comment-94 @ Ian Hi Ian, I think we probably do make rather more of an effort than you know. For example we’ve been running the Ecotech Centre in Norfolk for the last year, having saved it from bankruptcy and a large part of the work being done there is the hosting of school visits. We built a turbine in the backyard there and added to it a viewing platform so that people can climb the turbine and see things from the very top. It’s a massive enhancement to the visit to be able to get this close. That people like turbines better once they’ve seen one is a truth we’re more than familiar with – it’s why we build turbines where people live and where they can see them, and it’s why we built the turbine at Green Park – enabling the school visits that you do. We’re currently working on some key stage information packs and trialling other works through the Ecotech centre before we roll out nationally. Hope that helps. @ Ian
Hi Ian, I think we probably do make rather more of an effort than you know. For example we’ve been running the Ecotech Centre in Norfolk for the last year, having saved it from bankruptcy and a large part of the work being done there is the hosting of school visits. We built a turbine in the backyard there and added to it a viewing platform so that people can climb the turbine and see things from the very top. It’s a massive enhancement to the visit to be able to get this close. That people like turbines better once they’ve seen one is a truth we’re more than familiar with – it’s why we build turbines where people live and where they can see them, and it’s why we built the turbine at Green Park – enabling the school visits that you do. We’re currently working on some key stage information packs and trialling other works through the Ecotech centre before we roll out nationally. Hope that helps.

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