http://zerocarbonista.com Life post oil and post carbon Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:08:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We’ve mocked up a revised 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 ... http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/07/03/more-thoughts-on-garages-of-the-future-they-wont-exist/ 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 ... http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/06/26/hysterical-nonsense-from-christopher-booker-in-the-daily-mail/ 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 if the government gets stuck in with that £100 ... http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/06/26/a-week-in-the-life-of/ 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 ... http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/06/25/renewable-energy-strategy-actions-speak-louder-than-words/ 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 ... http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/06/10/petrol-stations-of-the-future-swap-shop-or-not/ Thanks to Chris Blount – whose views on “petrol stations” of the future I share. With our wind powered car we’re throwing down the gauntlet to the big car companies, who aren't doing nearly enough. They bleat about needing decades and £billions to perfect fuel cell technology – and with ... http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/05/23/more-on-transport-petrol-stations-of-the-future/ This is a follow-on post from my 'What's Wrong With Feed-in Tariffs' posting earlier. It’s not un-common to hear people say ‘We need Feed in Tariffs in the UK, like they have in Germany – they’ve got umpteen Gigawatts of renewables from it’. And fair enough they do. It’s ... http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/05/21/part-two-of-feed-in-tariffs-do-they-work-at-home/ Thanks to Peter and Simon for their posts last week. Has Tesla really killed of the myth of rubbish electric cars as Simon says? And are we just trying to make another Tesla as Peter says? Tesla’s big success has been to convince so many people that they’ve actually done it. ... http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/05/16/another-tesla-%e2%80%93-preferably-not/ This post was inspired by a couple of comment posters who got in a discussion about Good Energy. Andre - in my opinion the claims (you refer to) of Good Energy don’t stack up. The idea that by selling existing green electricity to someone you can encourage someone else ... http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/05/12/does-good-energy-cause-new-generation-to-be-built/ This was inspired by some stats that Stuart put in a comment on my blog post about Shell pulling out of offshore. Stuart, on the question of what the real problem for onshore wind is – you threw me for a day or so with your statistics from the BWEA, ... http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/05/12/onshore-wind-planning-or-building-which-one-is-the-real-problem/