This year’s Greenbird land record attempt is a washout. I didn’t even get to Australia…
The lake is normally dry in September, but this year it’s wet due to uncharacteristic rain fall. There was over 29 mm more rain in July and August this year than 2007. And July had twice its monthly average fall in 2 days at the end of the month. Plus August had its monthly average quota fall over just 12 hours. These unusual and changing weather patterns, typical results of the impact of climate change, have scuppered our record attempt. (more…)

Hard on the heels of a record Olympics for the Brits…….:)

I’m off to Oz in a few days to join the Greenbird team and attempt to take the world land speed record – powered only by the wind.

Greenbird,  the awesome looking craft in the picture above, we named as a nod to Donald Campbell and his historic Bluebird.  We reckon the world is at a watershed, the age of fossil fuels is passing and we’re moving (back) to the age of renewable energy  – Greenbird  symbolises this perhaps better then anything else.

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